"Dad?"
Although he had said Cassandra should leave and that he did not need her anymore, when Howard appeared with a group of armed men, Tony still took Cassandra's hand and shielded her behind him.
"Wait for me on the plane. I'll have someone send this lady to prison."
Howard waved the gun in his hand, signaling Tony to leave. He could not be sure what Cassandra really was, whether she had drugged Tony or was preparing to make a desperate last stand, so the priority was to separate Tony from the girl.
According to his intelligence, Tony had been completely controlled by her. During the month they had spent together, they had spent three-quarters of their time in bed.
This was not love at all, but simple lust.
That made Howard think Tony understood nothing; he was just lusting after her body.
But why was Tony so obsessed with her? He had clearly been with so many women before.
Howard believed Cassandra might have received special training from some intelligence agency. The Red Room, for instance, trained its agents and gave those girls special "skills," while The Hand's female ninjas also trained in bedroom techniques. Evil spy agencies all loved that sort of thing.
Tony had definitely encountered some brand-new version he had never tried before and been bewitched by this woman, so Howard had to save his son.
Well, perhaps Elminster had permanently cast some transmutation spell on Tony as a prank, but he had not told Deathstroke, so Deathstroke naturally had no way to tell Howard.
Su Ming had thought Dragon Ball had simply worked spectacularly well on Tony. After all, everyone's constitution was different; some people absorbed the drug faster. There was nothing more to say.
Through a series of coincidences, all this deepened Howard's misunderstanding