CHAPTER 22

"When I was twelve, the city had a huge carnival setup. It was almost like I had found something so exciting that I could not help but beg my parents to go." Rose buried herself closer to Ares who was laying beneath her, his arms warming up her side urging her to continue, that he was listening. "And at the end of the day I had wished that I had never left my house." The body embracing her got tense at that, Ares had never known Rose to be so serious, she was always so bubbly that It was hard imagining her any other way. "There is no girl out there who hasn't been touched inappropriately. I-Its like a curse, a f-feeling which make one numb. That day it was just a touch, a man old enough to be m-my grandfather pushed his hand under my skirt. It felt horrible, felt as if I was unable to breathe." Ares stopped, his whole form frozen in rage from the shock her words brought, he was going to make that monster's whole form unrecognizable. How can something like that happen to his innocent