Chapter 361

Juliette's POV

Ares had been gone for over an hour on a work call he'd promised would be quick, and since then I'd found myself sitting there, staring at the impeccably cleaned room, feeling his absence in a way that unsettled me.

I shouldn't have missed him. We shouldn't have gotten to this point so fast. And yet, there was something about his presence that had already become familiar, and comfor