Ares (Contemporary Mythos Book 3) by Carly Spade

Author:Carly Spade [Spade, Carly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

His lips didn’t quiver into a smile. The corners of his jaw tightened, and one eyebrow ticked. He wasn’t kidding. A vague memory surfaced from the other night—him whispering the same words to me as I fell asleep.

“You’ve told me this before,” I squeaked.

His eyes searched my face almost frantically. “Yes. You said it made a lot of sense.”

“In a world where myths and legends exist, sure. But Mars—” I cocked my head, staring up at him, waiting for him to lose it and laugh so hard he bent forward. It didn’t happen. “You can’t be serious? You think you’re the God of War?”

His grip tightened on my shoulders before dropping his hands to ball into fists. “I don’t think—” he yelled, pausing and shutting his eyes. “I don’t think I’m the God of War. I am,” he finished in a more calm tone. “Do you remember the way you felt in your dream? The visions? How it all seemed real?”

I blinked so rapidly it blurred my vision as I backed up until my calves hit against the nearest surface to brace myself.

“Morpheus. The reason I tried to avoid him touching you? He’s the god of dreams. What he incites in you are your deepest desires or what could’ve come to pass in a different life path.”

I rubbed the skin between my eyes. “Are you trying to say what I dreamt, us on the battlefield together, and—” I gulped. “After, were mirages of what could’ve been if—” The words escaped me, the stale air in the room devouring them.

“If you would’ve been alive in those times, yes.” He kept his distance, even though his constant shifting stance and tense posture suggested he wanted to come closer.

There was no denying how real the visions felt—the smells, the feel of smoke tendrils curling around my fingers, his skin pulsing against mine as we—

I shot to my feet, my heart racing, remembering how alive I’d felt in that tent—with him—with…war.

That red glint in his eyes, the strength, my crazy dreams. It couldn’t be possible. It just couldn’t. “Why now? And if you are real, why are you, a Greek god, roaming earth?”

He sucked on his teeth. “You said it yourself, gatáki. It sounds crazy claiming yourself a god, especially in the modern age where we’re merely a footnote in history—reduced to myth. We still exist, and we’re anything but figments of stories created by mortals. We blend in and still use our powers. Only now, we do it without fear or worship. We do it because it’s what we were born to do.”

Focusing my gaze, I shifted between his eyes and lips as he spoke. He carried himself with a fierce and masculine grace that pulled at a primal part of me. A heathen side buried deep, yearning for remembrance. I wrapped my arms around myself as if the world were falling to pieces around me. With each step closer to him, the earth shattered a little bit more.

He stood still, his brow cinched, distorting his features.

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