“I wonder if you are as talented as I’ve been told.” Ares faced me with a smirk and a glint in his eyes like I imagined he had every time he sunk a blade into someone and watched their mouths fall slack. “Will you disappoint me?” This was a man who’d once turned himself into a boar to gore another for stealing the attentions of Aphrodite with his beauty. I was grateful for not having attraction to both men and women, for my focus on men seemed to have spared me from catching Aphrodite’s eye for herself. Unless… Ares resented all beautiful men, even if his lover didn’t want them. I had to stay
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