Beauty and His Beast [MxM] (UNEDITED)

Three Years Later..

Ares POV

I stood in front of my mirror and looked at the person staring back at me and for some reason, I didn't feel any different than I did three years ago. Sure my physical appearance had changed. I looked older and more muscular, but that was about it.

Inside, I was still the same boy who had his heart broken and shattered when I was just fifteen, by the only man I had ever loved. If that didn't hurt, he had applied for leave claiming that he had to go back to his homeland and take care of his parents despite my parents refusing and telling him that he needed to be my guard and after their trying to convince him to stay failed, it had been accepted and he left.

Even as I cried and told him that I would never cast a lustful gaze his away again, and that I just wanted him to stay by me, he still left.

He didn't care how it would hurt. How being separated away from him would crush and destroy me. Even if he had good intentions, he had still chose the path that would hurt me, and it was then that I knew, that he didn't love me as much as I loved him. That was the only explanation I could come up with to keep me sane all these years.

"You're all grown up." I heard a voice say behind me and I turned around to see my mother smiling as she stood in the doorway of my room, my father standing beside her with a proud smile on his face.

"I don't feel that old." I replied and looked back at the mirror.

I grown out my hair over the years, reaching past my waist which I always kept in either a pony tail or a braid and despite my constant training in effort to get more muscular, I still looked more feminine than I did masculine and everyone would call me beautiful instead handsome as they did the other males.

At first it infuriated me and I wanted to rip apart anyone who said that, until I would remember Urion's words whenever he tried to help master my powers.

"You're a creature of nature and nature is pure beauty. Therefore, you will always be beautiful no matter what you try to do or who you try to be."

It was then that I embraced who I was and accepted it. Whether it be my feminine look or whether I completely sucked at using my powers. I wanted him to be proud of me when he saw me again. I wanted him to know that although I was broken inside, I refused to let that dictate who I was going to be.

"The coronation will start soon. Come on darling." My mother said to which I nodded and turned around to smile at my parents.

"I cannot believe how swiftly time has passed. It seems as though yesterday the light of your birth spread throughout our kingdom." My father said as he walked in and stood in front of me.

He took my face in his hands and pressed a kiss to my forehead. He held my face and smiled at me as he ran his thumbs across my cheeks and I smiled back at him.

"I love you Dad." I answered and heard him chuckle.

"It's not everyday that you hear your eighteen year old son actually say he loves you." He chuckled as he pressed another kiss to my forehead and stepped back. He took my mother's hand and smiled at me.

"We'll be in the throne room.Don't take too long" my mother added before they left my room.

If it were up to me, I would spent the entirety of my life here in this room.

I shook my head once more and was about to leave my room when I heard a knock on my door. I narrowed my eyes and called for whoever it was, to enter. I was even more confused when I so our royal deliverer enter, carrying a white envelope in his hands.

"I was told to give this to you before you left for your coronation, Your Majesty." He said as he handed me the envelope and lowered his head out of respect. I nodded at him and took the letter, waiting for him to leave before I looked at the writing.

I felt my heart stop at the familiar writing on it, unable to believe what I was seeing. I hadn't seen or even heard from him over the last three years. Every time I had asked about him, the reply was always the same.

"We were given strict instructions not to tell you should you ask."

I slowly sat down on the chair in my room, and held the letter in my hands. A part of me was overjoyed at finally hearing from him, but at the same time, I was terrified of what I was going to read in this letter. I let out a shaky breath as I broke open the seal and took out the letter.

Dearest Ares,

I can never imagine what you are going through and feeling right now, and neither can I ever apologize enough for what I had done to you.

I wish I could say I did for you, but some part of me did it for me as well. I did what I thought then, was the best for me. I knew that if I had to give in to what I wanted with you, I would have never been able to let you go when the time came and just the thought of putting you in that position of having to choose between me and your legacy kept me up at night and I chose to run before any of that happened.

I want you to know that you are the most beautiful and strongest person I have ever met. Your strength derives and emanates from the empathy you have for others. Something that not many people can say they possess. You have always put others before yourself and that alone, Ares, makes you a great leader and I am confident that you will be a great king, someone our people look up with admiration.

I have a lot to inform you about when we meet again and I hope that it will be on good terms. Although, I do understand your anger towards me and I do hope that you will find it in your heart yo forgive me one day. I look forward to seeing you again.

Forever Yours,

Urion

I clutched the letter in my hands for a few more seconds before I let out a sigh and placed it in my drawer and turned to the door, heading out with a thought on my mind.

I look forward to seeing you too. Though, not for the same reasons as you....