** 1 week later **
Athena POV
The past week has been… peaceful, compared to the weeks before that. I have been holed up inside my room, and I haven’t left my bed. Other than the occasional sanitary break, of course. I needed the recovery time. Both mentally and physically.
Mom has been planting food at my door every day, which is the only other thing I have done besides sleeping and peeing. I had already lost so much weight in the dungeons and the week after that, I didn’t want to lose any more. I always thought I wanted to be skinny like the other girls and all that, but it doesn’t suit me. I look weird having lost all this weight.
I can’t believe I always held out hope that my mate could overlook my physical features. I can’t believe I always longed for my mate to begin with, thinki
