Chapter 59: Mistakes

Saturday night, Ares and I met again.

I could hear the roar of a party at Kaelar’s house on the other side of campus. It immediately made me anxious. It’d only been two weeks since my incident and the prospect that it could happen again set me on edge.

Ares clearly noticed it as we sparred that evening. After one particularly brutal swipe of his elbow landed on the high of my cheekbone, I staggere