"What do you mean?" she asked, tilting her head.
His gaze never left hers, his eyes searching deep into her soul for any hint of what lay within. "Does it bother you?"
"...Bother me?"
"Having to marry someone whom you do not know...or even care about," he clarified.
Snowball pawed at her ear as she shrugged, "No... It doesn't. We're allies now. That's more important than anything else. And you seem pleasant enough."
'It's not like I put very much thought into any of my other marriages...'
Phoenix came bundled with her new life, she'd married Lyov to avoid awkwardness.
A habit she'd mostly gotten the hang of.
Hopefully.
Tenshi literally spawned into the world married to her, and Alex...poor Alex...was Phoenix deciding on his own to expand the harem for her.
If she put it that way, marrying Octavian in exchange for the moonflower she'd needed to save her people seemed well thought out...
