The Gift Chronicles Ares Novels & Stories

After surviving a kidnapping and being diagnosed with severe PTSD, I became the family's top priority. Every sharp object and glass item in the house was removed. The furniture was wrapped in thick foam padding, until not a single hard edge remained. My parents canceled all business trips. News broadcasts and violent movies were banned from the house. To help me feel safe, they even forced my younger brother, who had just earned a full scholarship to a top university, to stay home and keep me company around the clock. Everything changed on the night of my brother's lavish eighteenth-birthday celebration. When fireworks erupted across the sky without warning, I hallucinated instantly and grab

"Hannah, look—so innocent yet alluring. It's perfect for me, isn't it?" I had gifted it to her because she loved it. My hands shook as I picked up the delicate, nearly transparent cloth. My throat closed up, and my head spun. The doubt I'd buried deep inside finally broke free. Confusion and pain crashed over me. Before I could even think, the violent sound of colliding cars split the air. Then, blackness swallowed me whole.

“You need to have a piece of an immortal to sustain that rebirth. Having Selene’s power may have granted me a small ability to initiate that process… but I still needed the raw materials to complete it. Even if it’s just the tiniest bit to bring you back a few months before. But we should count ourselves lucky. Had Aria not kept Thea’s body safe, kept her hidden… we would have all died in that first timeline. No do-overs.” I wanted to think on the full weight of her words for some time, but a part of me knew that would be a rabbit hole of more confusion that I may not want to look into. There would be a chance to reflect on that later. But for right now though…. “Okay… Okay, so the artifacts

The phone fell silent—but I finally snapped out of my daze. “What does all this mean?” “There isn’t much time left before noon. Let’s go to our bedroom.” “I’m still on my period,” I said firmly. Ares smiled with only one corner of his mouth. “That’s not what I meant. There’s a gift for you there.” “Give me back my phone.” “As soon as I get a positive answer, I will. What time is your gathering? You still have time to think. One word from you, and everything will be as it was.”

“I didn’t think it would be one of the old ones.” Old ones. The words taste wrong. Heavy. Like a myth folded into a myth. Moonfire flares around Aria. “Ares, what is it? What’s happening?” He finally looks at her. At us. And his eyes I forget how to breathe. They’re no longer gold. They’re metal-bright, shot with sharp streaks of violet. Ares inhales. “My bloodline… wasn’t just chosen to protect the goddess.” The sentinel lowers its head.

this coin will allow you to contact me and he summons his divine war chariot and departs the beach leaving Celeste and Remy on the beach Ares threw the gold coin without ceremony. It flashed once in the salt wind, a bright arc of divine metal stamped with his face, and Celeste caught it cleanly in her hand. The weight of it was unmistakable—too deliberate to be ornamental, too charged to be ordinary. Gold settled against her palm like a promise she did not fully trust. Ares’s gaze remained on her, sharp and assessing. “Stay in touch,” he said. The words landed with the rough edge of a warning disguised as politeness. Celeste closed her fingers around the coin and did not look away. The gold

He opened the last box, and said " And another box of pure gold." Well, let's think about it a little, did she say a while ago about the gifts of King Ares and Queen Bella are a treasure?!!.. Well, at this moment, she withdraws her words, as Xavier gave her a cave of treasures in its entirety. then she heard Liliy telling them to send them all Gifts to the king's suite.. She approached astraea timidly, carrying a packet in her hand Small in size and red-faced " Astraea.. I wish you happiness with all my heart.. I hope you like my humble gift to you, it is nothing compared

Ty was abruptly stopped as the door swung open. Everyone’s eyes faced the doorway as Azura’s silhouette stood outlined by the moonlight. “No, my Alpha,” her voice trailed into the room so serenely. “It is I that stands before the room. I, your future Luna, will not stay quiet and kept any longer,” Azura says as she takes a few steps closer to her mate, placing a hand on his shoulder and gazes over the room, stopping briefly on the man who had dared to mention her name. “I know you are worried and you have reason to be. First the pack is threaten by an evil man, now we are subject to someone’s spiteful vengeance, but do not forget, that it is the Moon Goddess who has bestowed upon me her

"I kind of needed something right now, so that would be appreciated." "Good, I would insist if you didn't accept it. We prefer people who take our gifts. My brother, Ajax, has been informed of this already. He will give you the compensation himself." Lei turned white. Had she known who would hand it to her, she would've refused! But then again, the Nyth brothers value gratitude. It would be disrespectful to decline their gifts. "I appreciate it, but you do not have to bother, Lord Ares. What I did was simply an act of kindness, and is no need for gifts. It is expected of me as a citizen to—"

I said. “Good,” he said, eyes glinting with something tender. “Because I want us to have a future. But I want it to be honest this time. No pretenses. No power struggles.” I nodded slowly. “I want that too.” --- We wandered toward the front of the house, where a small garden bloomed with a few late-summer flowers. Ares stopped to pick a tiny yellow bloom and held it out to me. “For you,” he said softly. I accepted it, fingers brushing against his. “Thank you.”