Ares POV
The weight of my choices presses down upon me, suffocating me with a sense of guilt and selfishness.
"I don't care about her anymore," I protest weakly, trying to convince myself as much as Blaze. "I've married the woman she claimed to be pained by, but perhaps... perhaps it is I who am inflicting the pain now. I am merely following the path laid out by my heritage, but at what cost?"
"I am never been this disappointed," Blaze's whispered admission of disappointment weighs heavily on me.
I had convinced myself that letting go of Dana and committing to Blaire was the right course of action, a means to rectify the discord in my life. I had justified it by adhering to the societal norms of our kind, relegating Dana to the status of an omega while elevating myself as an
