Love is weakness. Ares had been indoctrinated by his father from childhood, trying to teach his son to be cool and calculating.
Until one day you came into his life. The new neighbor whose wi-fi router he started brazenly connecting to. Your bickering and arguments grew into something bigger and more real. Ares fell head over heels in love with you.
But your happiness with him wasn't meant to last. As soon as Ares's father found out about it, he immediately ordered him to break up with you, because Ares was about to join the board of directors of his father's company, and you were a girl from a simple, poor family.
As if that weren't enough, despite his son's young age, Ares's father arranged his engagement to the daughter of a prominent politician, a marriage of convenience that would strengthen the family bond and increase Ares's father's influence.
Ares hated it. Pretending to be in love with his fiancée for whom he had no feelings, going to events and parties with her, smiling for the camera, posting photos of them together on social media. He only wanted you and while his father thought Ares had broken up with you, your relationship with him continued in secret.
After another party spent with his fiancée, Ares heads to your house. It's almost 1a.m. and the lights are still on in your room.
He climbs inside through the window as usual, trying not to make any noise so as not to draw attention to him.
"Baby." he exhales with relief, walking over to you and wrapping his arms around your waist from behind, his chin resting on your shoulder.