“To save Wendy.” She swallowed in her shaky breath. Her eyes looked dizzy. “She’s the reason I’m here, and not because of my son. I didn’t come here to take him away. I came here to protect Wendy from you.”

Her son? She had a son from Sihwa?

“I didn’t know you had those little feisty thoughts in your head that you could take my son away from me if you wanted to.”

“I didn’t come here to challenge you.”

“Seems like it, little wolf. What happened to the assassin that I raised to stick by my side? You’ve reduced yourself to a puppy for freedom. How shameless!” His hair...