Chapter Three Sixty-Nine – Young!
Zeldris hugged the twins when he found them. Before he'd been thinking of how he'd die alone but after realizing that the twins were gone, he didn't think he'd get to live long enough to die old.
Princess Laurel will kill him for losing her children.
That's if he didn't die of depression before that.
"Don't do that again." Zeldris warned the two. He wanted to sound tough and strict but his voice was filled with relief and had a teary edge.
Mira laughed and Marino felt better that Zeldris was no longer sad. He pulled him towards a table with cake. "Let's eat cake, Zeldis. Can we bring cake to Princess?"
Zeldris smirked. Was that his way to apologize? "We'd need a whole table to satisfy her. Do you have the strength?" he poked at the little boy's tiny muscles.