26-Regan POV
She smelled like him, and the knowledge that he had come by her invitation and I wasn't invited drove Ares to extreme anger and bitterness. As such, he reacted in a very...irresponsible way. Luckily, as afraid of us as she should have been, I could smell her arousal at our jealousy. As hot as it was, I did feel remorse. She deserved better then us at our worst. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to contemplate how to give her that as we were yet again, standing in front of another crisis that we had to sort and dig through to figure out. Ah well, I always enjoyed a good mystery book.
With Alex on his way back to his kingdom, I'd have Hope to myself for at least half a day, if not more, particularly if he ran into issues that weren't being resolved by his council in his stead.
