Eron's blunt tone left Shane at once surprised and angered.

"Don't you think you're exaggerating, sir?" he demanded. "Why don't you mention the name of the fiance who could make me appear insignificant?'

Eron glanced between Shane's defiant visage and Kim's look of melancholy.

Considering the timing, Sage Lake Sect would be done with Frank by now.

"Ahem." He cleared his throat and grinned. "My daughter will be marrying Maron Ocean, the son of Sage Lake Sect's chief. You really should look yourself in the mirror and decide if you can ever win against Sage Lake Sect... If the answer's no, then just give up on your pipe dreams already."

Kim did a double take at his mention of Maron before slamming her palm on the table as she sprang to her feet, furious. "You're out of line! You can't do this!"

prodigious and had reached Birthright rank early in life,

only would he frequent red-light districts, but there were also accusations of an appalling personal life and that every woman he had ever been with always ended

less acceptable, with

and heaven knows how he reached Birthright rank. Perhaps the credit went to Sage Lake Sect's chief, who must have spent a

of Maron's flaws. "Those are all just rumors —Maron is a good man. If you still doubt me, I'll personally bring you on

desperation?" Kim cried, her eyes welling up with tears

"Silence!"

was none other than Aria

at Eron haughtily, "Is that how you

"Apologize?!"

stroke, and she did not need imagination to

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