Yongye looked down at him, the warmth in his smile giving way to open mockery.
"You stinking bat. I saved you, and this is how you repay me?"
"I even fixed your bad back, and you ambushed me?"
"You're worse than an animal."
He lightly ground his boot against Batman's chest armor, applying just enough pressure to make it hard for him to breathe.
Batman's chest heaved. His voice squeezed out through the pressure, hoarse with pain and humiliation.
"You... took advantage of my woman!"
"You're the one who's worse than an animal!"
Yongye's expression froze for a beat, then twisted into an exaggerated look of Holy shit, that changes things.
He lifted his foot from Batman's chest and stepped back, spreading his hands in utter innocence. His voice dripped with mockery.
"No way."
"She's really your lover?"
"Oh, come on... Why didn't you say so sooner?"
He glanced at Talia, who was silently tidying up, then looked down at Batman again. His tone was so sincere it set one's teeth on edge.
"I thought she was just an enemy!"
"A princess of the League of Assassins, Ra's al Ghul's daughter, showing up with a pack of killers to cut me down... That sounds like a villain to me."
"If you'd told me she was your woman, I never would've treated her like that!"
"I'm a good man with principles! Just like my senior apprentice brother, Yongye!"
Batman lay on the floor, his jaw clenched so tight it looked ready to snap. He roared in fury.
"You gagged me!"
"How the fuck was I supposed to say anything?"
"Even if she weren't my lover, you still couldn't do something so vile!"
Talia picked up her fallen dagger and sheathed it in one clean motion, as though nothing had happened.
She