---ARES POV---
Reager 's housekeeper arrives back at the house early in
the morning. I'm awake just after dawn, having my coffee
on the rock patio in the backyard when she enters the
house. She sees me through the door when
she makes her way into the living room and then joins me outside.
"Would you like breakfast, your majesty?" she asks in
She has Tahor Accent.
I set the file consisting of my duties down on the wrought iron coffee table.
"Thnak you, but I won't be eating," I tell her and then gesture toward Avalon walking through the living room in
search of me. "But she will be."
"I will be what?" Avalon asks as she steps through the opened door. She walks across the rock patio with bare feet, wearing another one of Reager's t-shirts—it bothers me immensely that she's having to wear his
