ARES POV

It wouldn't be a drag if I referred to myself as the wisest of my kind. No, I was, in fact, the wisest. My thinking was top-notch, and none came close to it.

As I walked out of the kitchen, bearing two large dishes in my hands, a wide grin etched on my face.

I wasn't sure I had ever been as excited in a long time as I was at that moment. The saying, The wise will become wiser, wasn't untrue.

Coming up with the siblings time out. There was no doubt that no one could ever have thought about it. I was grinning from ear to...