25
Ashton
It was too hard staying beside Hayley all the time and not going to her, not touching her, not telling her how I truly felt. So in the mornings, I got up before her and left the inn when Mahaera arrived for their training session.
The goddess hadn’t said anything, but even she, the most kind and gentle of them all, had glared at me the day after we fled the chalet. Did the goddesses know everything? Didn’t we have any kind of privacy? Thankfully, she hadn’t grilled me about it, probably because she knew I would do my best to keep my promise from now on.
Hayley hadn’t said much either, though I wasn’t sure if it was because I barely saw her or because she was mad at me. I knew she was mad at me. I could feel her rage rolling in waves, directed at me, like a tangible tsunami. S
