Chapter Twenty

Ares.

The moment I heard Alora's voice I stopped in my tracks, frozen in place with my jaw hanging dropping down to the floor.

Her voice sounded like the simple flowing of a river, running swiftly over rocks. Every anger I had felt earlier melted away, my blood cooled and my veins turned into ice as I stared in awe at the girl in front of me.

Tears ran gently from her fear filled eyes, rolling down round cheeks before falling to the cold floor beneath our feet.

I couldn't move, couldn't speak as the words of the song rolled off her beautiful lips leaving behind the resonating sound of the most charming melody ringing in my ears.

In all my twenty-nine years of being alive I hadn't heard such a beautiful voice. The only sound I had grown accustomed to was the piano and I could just imagine that voice blending with the melody of the piano.

I suddenly wished I hadn't interrupted her while she was playing, I wished I had waited for her to sing also because it was the most beautif