I hadn’t planned to tell Ares how I was feeling. It had been on my mind for a while, but there had never been an appropriate time to bring it up and part of me had hoped that the feeling would pass with time.
I just couldn’t ignore it anymore.
He was so sure that I would change and grow into my new role, and I think that he had convinced himself of that because I had changed so much since I met him.
But the fact I was more confident than I had been and that I was more powerful than I had ever expected didn’t change the person I was beneath the surface, and the way he had responded to me showed me that he had already seen that, and that he knew I was right about him, too.
He did what he was supposed to, when he was supposed to, but he wasn’t happy and he needed more freedom than he had
