I couldn’t understand what Ares saw in me most of the time, but it made me incredibly proud that he seemed to genuinely believe we would be able to lead his pack together. He had not seen me as capable of that at first, but he had started to see my strengths and to recognize the things that might make me a strong leader.
It sounded like he had been reflecting on his own situation and the fact that he had never expected to be in control of this pack. He hadn’t believed that I would be able to cope with the responsibility that I was going to have to take on as his mate, but for some reason, he was starting to see me differently.
Maybe it was just because that is what he wanted to see. He needed to see me as good enough because if I wasn’t suitable to be his mate we would just have another
