Brooke blinked at the prospect of Alexander meeting her parents. Regan Wyngarde would probably try to see if she could take Alexander for herself.

Manuel...well. Brooke still didn't know him well enough to figure out how he'd react, but given how he had all but abandoned her again after suddenly coming back into her life...well.

Sometimes I think that the illusory dad that my mother had created was better. Even if he had been in jail for tax fraud.

"Wait," she said. "Your father's the God of War." She had known this, but meeting Ares had never been something she thought she'd do anytime soon.

Instead, here it was.

"That's..." intense. "Oh god. Literally."