It was so difficult not to be angry at Ares that I chose to turn away from him again rather than telling him what I thought.
We were supposed to be finding a way to persuade Zaahra to leave without causing any hurt or anger and rather than resolving the issue he had just done one of the few things he could have to make it infinitely worse.
I had enough experience to know that I would be the one who was blamed for all of this and that people would use his words against me. I hadn’t broken up an unsuitable partnership that was doomed to failure anymore; as far as she was aware, he loved her.
“Morrigan…”
He had said my name so many times since he got here that I was sick of hearing it, so I screwed my eyes closed and dug my nails into my hands so that I wouldn’t scream at him to stop ta
