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Ares
by Ana Night
Ares has become the president of the King's Disciples MC after having killed his previous club president, Ronin, for being a giant dick. One of Ares’ main reasons for killing him, though, was to save Ronin's younger brother, Jace, from all the abuse and hurt he's had to endure under Ronin's rule. Ares has always wanted to protect Jace, caring about him more than about anyone else, which is why it hurt very badly when Jace ran away after seeing Ares kill his brother.
“You killing Ronin isn’t why I ran. It was how easily you did it.”
Ares cursed under his breath. “Fine. It was easy pulling that trigger. Because it meant he could never hurt you again.” Ares threw his hands up. “Is that what you wanted to know? That I’d happily kill anyone who’d hurt you? I will. And I’ll sleep fucking great at night, too, because you’ll be safe.”
This book picks up a year later, starting with Jace being found by a rival gang, kidnapped and beaten to a pulp as a warning to Ares. Ares is, understandable, absolutely enraged by this, and will do anything to keep Jace safe. He refuses to let Jace out of his sight, even if Jace wants to leave.
Did he think Ares would’ve smacked a Band-Aid on him and kissed his boo-boos before pushing him back out the door? No. Fuck that. He wasn’t letting him go. Not again. The past year without Jace, wondering how he was, if Jace was missing him as much as he’d missed him? That had been fucking torture. He wasn’t doing that again.
Ares loves Jace so much, and he feels so guilty about putting him in danger. The only thing he cares about is Jace, nothing else makes him feel this deeply or strongly.
That wall around his heart was crumbling. Jace had been back in his life one day and he was already losing it. It didn’t fucking help that Jace was hurt. It only fucked him up even more that he was likely the reason for it.
This story isn't written super well or anything, the plot is lacklustre and minimal at best, so you're really only reading this for the romance, obsession and possessiveness.
Ares is your typical swoon-worthy kind of alpha man who would do absolutely anything for Jace, feeling like all the rest can go to hell as long as Jace is safe and happy. Ares' love runs very deep, and he just desperately wants to take care of Jace.
“I hate admitting when I’m scared,” Ares said, his gaze dropping to the ground for a second. “But you scare the shit out of me. You have since the day we met because as much as I tried to deny it then, I knew there was nothing I wouldn’t do for you. I love you, Jace. Fuck. I’ve always loved you.”
Jace has obviously been the victim of a very tragic past filled with abuse, and thus it makes sense for him to be a bit timid and sometimes back away from Ares when he feels threatened or disrespected. This resulted in quite a bit of push-and-pull, but I personally didn't find it annoying, and kind of loved it every time Ares had to go get Jace back.
Jace definitely wasn't a pushover when it came to Ares and he also had a little bit of fight in him left when it came to everyday life.
“I might not be much of a fighter, but I’ll fight for you. Always.”
“I’ll do everything in my power to ensure you’ll never have to.”
These two obviously have history together, which I loved, because it gave their relationship credibility and depth, but I do wish we could have actually gotten to see their history ourselves.
It would have been super interesting to see what Ares and Jace’s lives were like before Ronin died, how they felt, how they interacted, how they pined and longed for each other. But also how helpless they both felt with Jace being abused by Robin, without Ares being able to do much about it other than comfort him. It could have been very good!
All in all, I really enjoyed this book. It isn't a masterpiece by any means, but it had a relationship dynamic I adored, had a possessive alpha man with a soft-spot and adoration for one man only, had the right amount of angst, and I was just truly into it.