I tried to push down the pain of my losses in my chest as Ares looked at me with conflicting emotions. I couldn’t quite figure out if I had annoyed him or just upset him. He was usual, hard to read but I didn’t care too much about reading him anyways.
“You don’t really love me do you?”
He knew the answer to that but I know he wanted to so badly lie to himself and I would lie to him for him. I didn’t want to find out what it would mean to say ‘no.’ And so instead, I said.
“I do. You just don’t make me happy.”
Maybe that would give him more of a reason to try his best, to release my tribes people and free me although I knew the latter would never happen, it was a desirable feeling thought.
“Then tell me how to.”
He said as he took the cup of hot chocolate out of my hands and placed it
