Dreams Outgrow Rooms Built From Other Peoples Fears by Niro Mason 28

28 Ruined Morning 

I walked down the stairs to the living room with Loki in my arms. The little cutie hasn’t left my 

side since. 

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“Good morning!” 

I froze when I saw Athena relaxing on the sofa. 

“What are you doing here?” I asked sternly. 

“What do you mean, what am I doing? This is my brother’s place, and I have access to it.” 

That explained her intrusion from yesterday and today. Ares was a private person, but I guess Athena was an exception. 

I dropped Loki, and Athena came to him, but he 

hissed at her and scurried out. 

That’s my boy! 

“Ugh! Meanie!” 

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She straightened her spine and gave me her best 

smile. 

“I was waiting for you to wake up. We should hang out.” 

“I’d rather throw myself off this building.” I walked 

to the kitchen to make coffee. 

“Oh, don’t be like that, we’re besties, aren’t we?” 

“I think you really need to check your brain. 

“Why should I do that?” 

I cast a look over my shoulder. “You’re clearly missing something.” 

“Alright, you’re releasing negative energy there, and it’s bad, bad, bad! It’s morning, and it should be all about positive energy.” 

My morning is ruined. 

I switched on the coffee maker, trying my best to ignore her until she stood beside me, eating my 

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personal space. 

“Move!” I growled. 

“You’d rather not hang out with me?” 

“Yes!” 

“But Victoria Dalton is an exception.” 

I froze. 

“She seems to be your only friend in this city. Why is that?” 

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I breathed heavily through my nose. She’s looked into my personal life; she basically knows 

everything about me now. Add that to the top list of creepy. 

“Leave her out of this,” I said through clenched 

teeth. 

“Relax, I’m not gonna hurt her or anything.” She took my coffee and turned it into a cup, and sipped. “I just want to know everything about 

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you.” 

“Now you have, stay away from me.” 

“You’re a King now, get used to the mirror over your life.” 

I clenched my teeth. 

“How long?” she suddenly asked. “How long are you, Mrs. King?” 

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” 

“Oh, please, I know this marriage is a sham, but I don’t have proof yet, but I’ll eventually.” 

“Why don’t you just get over the fact that your 

brother is married?” 

She laughed wildly. “Oh, darling, you don’t know a thing about him. You see, I don’t believe my brother would wake up one morning and put a ring on your finger.” She eyed it and shifted her eyes back to me. 

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I caught Ares coming through, looking like he had just come back from an early morning run. 

“Honey!” I pitched and walked past Athena to him. 

Before he could react, I grabbed his tank top and pulled him down for a kiss. 

I devoured his lips like breakfast, threading my hand through his wet hair. 

But I suddenly yanked my lips away and said to him, hoping Athena hears. “How about we finish this in the bedroom?” 

He raised an eyebrow. I didn’t give him time to speak as I pulled on his arm up the stairs. I continued this until Athena could no longer see 

1. us. 

I was suddenly backed against the wall by Ares, and he trapped me there, leaning close. 

I rasped, admiring as his wet hair tangled on his forehead, and the nagging urge to brush it aside 

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seized me, but I resisted. 

“S–She can no longer see us,” I murmured. “She’s 

asking questions and I had to… do that.” 

“Then we must convince her… Athena is 

persistent.” 

“She won’t come up,” I clarified, but the moment I said that, I rethought my words. 

She would. 

Ares took my hand and raised it, eyeing my ring. The silence was loud, and when he gave me a knowing look, a subtle smirk playing on his lips, it hit me. 

It wasn’t Reed. 

“Lose it again, and I’ll punish you.” 

I shivered at his words, and a mysterious heat clasped around us when our eyes locked. I want to look away but I can’t. 

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I heard a sound, and I panicked, quickly swooping in for another kiss, but it was Ares who took 

charge. 

I moaned as his mouth trapped mine in a fierce intensity. His lips were cold and rough, but there was heat that surged and flooded my entire body. 

His hand sank into my shorts and pressed against my asscheek, and I flinched, wanting to take his hand off, but his other hand trapped my wrist 

above my head. 

He squeezed again, and I hissed as sweet pain kissed my entire body. I thrust my hips forward as he angled the kiss toward another direction. 

I felt him, hard like steel pressing into my heat. 

Is Ares attracted to me? 

Meow 

The random sound made our lips break from the connection. It wasn’t Athena but Loki, using his 

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paws on his ping pong ball. 

I pushed Ares off me, or maybe he let me. I cleared my throat, fixing my glasses. 

“I should get ready.” My eyes descended to the prominent line of his cock. I didn’t imagine it. 

Noticing I was staring too much, I scurried back to my room, trying to ignore the butterflies in my stomach. 

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I was in the midst of making a print in the ballpen when Gary leaned against the wall. 

“Morning, Gary. I’ll be done in a minute; the one in Ares‘ office needs maintenance,” I said, trying to compile the endless paperwork. 

After what transpired yesterday, I made it my mission to focus heavily on work, trying my best to avoid Ares. I didn’t linger in the office and worked rounds instead. The print machine was a 

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lifesaver. 

“Using his name, huh? Right, you’re married to 

him,” said Gary. 

“Is there something I can help you with?” 

“They are talking from the top to the bottom. The company is bleeding with it.” 

“Talking about what?” 

“That the rumors of you fucking the boss were true all along.”