Fate Draws Us Together

Deimos was pleased when Ikigai didn’t pull away from his hold on her paw right away, instead their eyes meeting and holding one another’s gazes for a moment as she seemed to consider and ponder his offer. It took a long moment, but eventually she accepted and a small smile returned to his lips. A small twinge of possessive frustration tugged at his core as she pulled her paw away, but he held it back. As long as he continued to play his cards right he would have his say over her soon enough. For now he could just allow himself to be entertained by this unexpected beauty as they made their plans to let her have her say against her father before he swept her away to their new home. “It’s a date,” he responded with a soft chuckle as she set the time for their departure.

Bringing his paw back to his own and resting one foreleg across the other again he reluctantly added, “I suppose we should be getting some rest then.” He didn’t want her to leave, but he doubted she would agree to stay if he asked. She was still technically promised to someone else, though it was getting harder and harder for him to remember that fact. He had a hard time even remembering what Poe looked like, especially as he was laying here taking in the woman that he most certainly didn’t deserve. A princess like herself deserved nothing less than the best his family could offer her and how could a man with only distant blood ties to their matriarch possibly be enough. He gave her a grin and a dip of his head, saying, “Until the morning.”

"Deimos Mendacium"