Zane also piped up, "Hello, Uncle Kaiser."
Kaiser’s brownish-gold pupils contracted slightly. He stared blankly at the human children before him, his thoughts drifting far away. He remembered his own children, who hadn’t survived.
’If they hadn’t been killed, they would have hatched long ago, grown into lovely little hatchlings, and maybe even rubbed against his scales for affection.’
Kaiser nodded at the two little ones before dejectedly pulling back into the leather bag.
Jasmine tilted her head, her soft voice tinged with confusion. "Doesn’t Uncle Kaiser want tanghulu?"
Renee Jennings noticed the change in Kaiser’s mood, her hands tightening slightly on the steering wheel. "Jasmine, Uncle Kaiser doesn’t eat tanghulu. You can have it."
Jasmine nodded. "Okay then."
Renee Jennings glanced over and lowered her voice. "Kaiser, are you okay?"
Kaiser mumbled, "This snake misses his wife and children."
Renee Jennings’s eyelashes fluttered. She pressed her lips together, momentarily at a loss for words.
Kaiser coiled up in the bag, licking his wounds alone.
The traffic was heavy, and they were stuck in a jam for over ten minutes. By the time they reached Eastgate Villa, it was nearly dusk.
The great-aunt was lying on the sofa, clutching her stomach and shouting that she was hungry. "What kind of housekeeper are you? It’s dinnertime, why the hell aren’t you cooking? Are you trying to starve me to death?"
Glenn Zane said nothing.
Rhea Dempsey ignored her too, watching TV on her own.
Blueberry and his friends stared wide-eyed at the great-aunt, glaring at her fiercely.
But the old woman wasn’t scared in the slightest and even dared to glare back.
Blueberry was furious, grinding his teeth. ’I really want to bite someone.’
’But no, I can’t bite people.’
He held back until he heard a familiar voice outside. His golden cat eyes suddenly lit up.
"Meow~ Renee is back!"
"Woof woof? Did Renee think of a way to deal with this bad human?"
"Meow~ I’ll go see."
As soon as Blueberry’s meow faded, his body tensed like a cheetah’s. He pushed off with his hind legs and shot out in a gust of wind.
But just as he reached the door, the fur on the tip of his nose suddenly twitched. He caught a strange and dangerous scent.