CHAPTER 17
ARESI lay in bed next to Aurora and stared up at the dark ceiling, dragging my fingers across the wounds I’d received from the battle with the hounds earlier. All the wounds had completely healed, only leaving small scars, which would be gone by morning. But all those scars, all those wounds, would weigh heavily on my mind.
Not in a bad way, but in one that I would always remember.
“You’re returning to Ares,” Aurora said, snuggling closer to me and grabbing my hand.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, after Mars died, there was a time when you became like him. You were gentler and more loving and didn’t snap in a moment’s notice. It was almost as if you thought I needed him more than I needed you.”
My jaw tightened slightly because she was right. I had held myself back from flipp
