Athena POV I can’t help but burst out laughing at that. So… I am their mate as well as their natural enemy? They look at me with their eyebrows raised, and I wonder if they hadn’t noticed that it was me who froze their friend when they came to visit. I sure as hell don’t plan to tell them if they hadn’t. The lesser they know about my abilities, the better. It may come in handy one day. ‘They are not our enemy, Ath. They might be rough around the edges, but they are our mates and they wouldn’t hurt us’. ‘You don’t know them, Ares, so you don’t know if they wouldn’t or not. Look at the s**t stains. They were our mates as well’. ‘They’re not them, Ath’. Ares replies, but I am brought back from my conversation with her when Asher asks me a question. “What’s so funny about that?”. “Not

