ARES'S POV

I didn’t know what she expected me to say. I hadn’t put much thought into what we were or where this was heading. I enjoyed her and she enjoyed me, that was as far as I thought about it. I was never the type to date. That’s why I pretended to be in a relationship with Christina for so long.

“Forget I asked, it was stupid anyway,” she said.

Her back faced me, but I already knew what she was feeling. I could hear her thoughts taking ...