Ares||
Asher hurried to his feet and turned to Axel before I could speak.
“She is supposed to be with me. I bought her. I brought her here because I needed something to play with. If I didn’t bring her none of you would have even seen her.” His face was contorted into a deep frown, and he turned his gaze on me like he expected a comeback from me.
“Yet, you wanted to kill her,” Axel said with a long face.
Hope rose within me, and I opened my mouth to speak but I held back. Axel wasn’t stupid. He was definitely up to something. It wasn’t long before he turned his attention to my silence and his brows arched. “Aren’t you going to say something?”
I picked my wine glass instead, took a long gulp, and shrugged like the whole situation meant nothing to me when in truth it was tearing my cont
