"Oh," she began to correct herself quickly, even though she accepted his nice hand. Makaria felt suddenly very bad that she'd made it sound perhaps worse than it was. Ares had never forced himself on her, only made her uncomfortable with his pushing. That tattooed girl had showed up and he'd stopped with his grabbing hands anyway.
"Nothing bad really happened to me, I don't mean to make it sound- my mother was kidnapped away to the underworld to become a bride and, uh, it was nothing like that. I'm just not very- I don't understand men and he was terribly pushy and- it's fine though."