NINETEEN
“YOU NEED TO FALL IN LOVE with me again,” she said, watching their tangled fingers play.
Shifting his head on the pillow they shared, he looked at her. “I love you. I never fell out of love with you.”
That wasn’t exactly what she meant. “Was it difficult? Going back to Ares, working under Zeus?”
“Yes.”
“And some of that was my fault,” she said. “Because you could be you with me. The honest you.” As she’d requested. “Reentry to Olympus was difficult because of me.”
“Because I wanted to be with you. I always want to be with you.”
Her head moved, so she could look him in the eye. “And that’s what this is, reentry to us. It’s a transition we’ve never really had to make before.”
“I’m sorry.”
Freeing her hand from his, she rolled over to tuck herself against him. “I don’t want
