Chapter 89

Atlas POV

My mind has been a mess since breakfast with Akia. I’ve been replaying everything since then. All memories involving Ares have been under review. I’ve even replayed all the times that Apollo would come to me, desperate for understanding about an incident that involved Ares.

I never listened, and I can admit it. I always pushed it off as brothers being brothers. I also felt that Apollo was exaggerating because he was the youngest among us. The possibility that our brother was so far off the reservation is something I didn’t want to face. I didn’t want to think about what it would mean to admit that Ares was that much of a mess.

Now it looks like I should have considered it. I should have listened to Apollo and figured out a way to fix things before they went too far. Now we have our fated mate, and she’s suffering from my blindness. I ju