This had to be a trick of some kind. She can’t imagine Ares brutally torturing people and setting them on fire. She knows he had a bad life and have done things in order to make Rubeus proud of him. Everything he has ever done was because he wanted to be accepted. “He mentally tortured Byron by taking away his family and had him hunting for someone who didn’t even exist in his world.” Rubeus seemed to enjoy this too much. His sick humour disgusted her.
“He did all of that because he wanted to be accepted by you,” Kayla told him. “But all you ever did to him is hurt him. Killing her parents with your awful, cursed power. Took him under your wing to turn him into an object. Why even block all his memories with a spell?” Rubeus just looked at her with undeniable strong hate.
“He stepped ou
