If Azure needed oxygen at that moment, he would have felt as if the breath had left his lungs, as if all the oxygen in this room had been sucked out, and he couldn’t get a deep breath in. He stared; he was tired, and he knew he couldn’t hide the expression on his face, one filled with anger, regret and horror as he stared at Mint. It was the one thing, the one thing he had always begged Mint to keep hidden from the man. When he had first introduced the man to him as a child, he had begged him. Kai should never have found out that he was Mint’s biological father.
Azure slowly turned to look at Kai, and he could see the man doing the math in his head, but Azure didn’t need to do it. For Mint to be his son, Kai would have had to be thirteen; that was the thing; he was thirteen when it all ha
