THIRTY-TWO
STYX GAVE HER A SECOND to process before continuing. “Me and Hades, we took the brunt of him proving himself loyal to Zeus. Ares is capable of anything in the name of a mission. In the name of doing what’s right.”
“I know that… I just wish he’d trusted me to—”
“It was easier for you to hate him… but you couldn’t even get that right.” When he hazarded a smile, she offered a feeble one in return. “I wouldn’t let him tell you. It was a trade-off. He didn’t want Hades to know.”
“And you thought he should.”
“To be in that mind, to go to the place he needed to be at to succeed in this, Ares had to switch off everything that wasn’t the mission. A good way of proving who you are to someone else is to become that person.”
“I have experience of that,” she said, sinking onto her side
