She said YES

"What if you decide to marry another one day" Athena asked and that hurt me a lot, how could she think of that? How could she, the one feeling the bond was me and me alone

"You are not getting what I'm saying, Princess, there is no one that I want other than you," I said, one of us feeling the bond was better than nobody and luckily I was the one feeling it because I don't think I would want to see her going through such pain

"Then my answer is yes, I will marry you Emperor Deimos," Athena and it came as a shock, was I dreaming, did she actually say yes to me?

"Thank you very much," I said and hugged her before I could stop myself from doing so, that felt familiar. Too Familiar

I was about to be lost in thought when she suddenly hugged me back, she hugged me tightly as if she wanted to hug me for a long time, and she hugged me lovingly

"Sorry," I said and let go of her else I would have had to apologise for sleeping with her before our marriage which I didn't want to do at all

"It is okay," Athena said and smiled, I couldn't get over her smile, it was like she knew that I was addicted to that smile before she used it a lot on me that day

"There is one thing you should know about me though" I introduced the topic that was probably going to make her change her mind about marrying me, but she had to know, it was the right thing to do

"You will need my blood, my touch to control yourself once we marry, I know," Athena said, she knows? How? How much exactly did she know about me? The fact that she knew raised questions about her in my head, but because it was her, I ignored them. I ignored my kill instinct for her. Just for her

"How, and why are you still willing to marry me?" I asked for it confused me as to why she would want to marry me after knowing that I would be taking her blood like a damn leech every time I felt the need to

"There are many ways to find out things, through dreams, through the Goddess, rumours or perhaps all. I am still willing to marry you for I still see you as human. Nothing has changed" she said and gave me that beautiful smile once more

"Thank you princess" was all I could say, I wanted to say more, but that's all I could say at that moment. I thanked her for accepting me

"Call me Athena," she said

"Then thank you Athena" I and smiled at her

"You are very welcome Deimos," Athena said and that's when I knew that we were really going somewhere with our relationship

"I will tell the Emperor that you are the one I choose to marry at the ball," I said and looked at her to see it she would have any objections, but she didn't and I was nothing, but relieved

"And I will be waiting to walk to you," she said

"May we have a happy marriage, " I said

"May we have a happy marriage?" she said back and we both smiled at each other

Soon we started eating dessert and talking about the staff at the North Palace and how they all were compared to the ones here

"Could I ask you something, Princess?" I asked as a question came to my mind