I regretted telling Ares I was scared.
It had been a throwaway comment that revealed far more than I had intended, and I should have known that Ares would pick up on that.
He was waiting patiently and his eyes were piercing into mine unblinkingly.
I had an uncomfortable sense of how he was feeling - he was concerned.
At least I had managed to take his mind off his parents.
He was practically screaming internally, and I didn’t hear the words but I knew what it was he wanted to know.
Scared had so many connotations, and he needed to know whether I was scared because of my past or scared of my future.
“You know it made things easier for me when you stayed away from me, but…” he drew a deep breath and I noticed that he was shaking a little, “…Morrigan, were you afraid that I wouldn’t be
