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Chapter 159 - The God Who Loves Her

POV: Aphrodite

Love is not salvation.

Eros doesn't ask for the thing he wants.

I've been watching this since the manifestation, since the dreamspace where he said only your consent and since the ally handshake and since the standing-beside without the demanding-back — the specific pattern of someone who has something they want and is choosing not to use the situation to leverage toward getting it, choosing instead to demonstrate the thing they want by practicing it rather than claiming it.

He stands with me even against Olympus.

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