I didn’t respond to Ares’ assurance that his promises were more than words. I believed that he meant what he said in the moment, but I thought he would forget about those promises as soon as we were around the others again.
I watched him get dressed again, and I wondered what he was planning on doing. I didn’t know if I wanted to stay here for another day or not; I wasn’t comfortable around humans, and I felt that every moment I spent alone with Ares was making it harder to conceal the truth.
I was still lying in bed when he left. I hadn’t been able to relax like this before, and the bed was so comfortable that it was impossible to resist staying there for a while longer. I stretched out and moved over into a patch of sun that was shining through the window and onto the bed.
I didn’t ha
