Chapter 104 Divided Loyalties

• Athena
• As we settled outside, facing each other, he gave me the cup of coffee he had picked for me on his way over.
• "Thank you, you really didn't have to--" I fidgeted uneasily in my seat, acutely aware of the weighty conversation that was about to take place. His piercing stare, the palpable tension that hung in the air, and most of all, the very first words he had uttered upon walking into the bakery.