I just realized too late that the remaining games had Ares in them, and I ended up being paired with him along with Jackson. I felt even more embarrassed thinking about Evan, since he didn’t get to play in any of them. Because of that, I wanted so badly to punch Ares, but I held myself back since my son was right there.

He went ahead and signed both our names up for every game.

“What are you doing? You didn’t even ask me first if I wanted to play these games with you,” I whispered ...