ARES'S POV

My family had taken the news better than I had anticipated. Alastor stared shocked as he poured himself another drink, Anastasia was overjoyed that my date wouldn’t be Christina, and for the first time in my life, my mother was speechless. I refused to tell them anything else about Leilani and had adamantly requested that they wait for tonight to meet her themselves and come up with their conclusions about her.

As the limo drew closer to Leilani’s ...