Ares had succeeded in distracting me. We both knew that we were putting off countless difficult conversations, but he made it sound so easy to forget about those things that I found myself caught up in the moment with him.
He was happy, and excited, and he didn’t want Luc to be this specter looming over me and everything that I had become since those people abandoned me. I got the impression he wanted this to be a special moment we could look back on and treasure, but I had let my memories of Luc ruin it and now we were standing by the river alone and it should have been romantic but I was clinging to him like a lost child, and he was shivering because he was freezing after swimming across to get to me, and we were both aware of the fact Rayden was nearby.
It would probably seem like
