Hephaestus
I slammed the hammer down on the anvil over and over again, pretending it was Ares' handsome face underneath. How I hated him more than anyone in the universe. At every turn, he mocked me and reveled in my pain. Turned my wife against me-though she could never stand the sight of me from the beginning-it had been Zeus' punishment to force her to marry me after she disobeyed his orders to stay away from her favorite mortal lover, Adonis.
When she still snuck away to see Adonis, Zeus sent a wild boar after him and killed him.
And I'd foolishly believed if given time and attention, that my wife would soften to me. That we could fall in love. I had been attracted to her and hoped she'd at least come to care about me. Instead, I'd been given a list of her infidelities and teased by
