I was able to break the news to Erwin that the engagement was off the next day. Erwin gracefully accepted his ring back. And I felt lighter. Levi was there outside Erwin's office, he'd wanted to make sure I really had cut things off with his Commander before we had any more private encounters.

Time passed, but we kept our relationship secret for a long while after. Though we never made any announcement, it eventually became obvious to everyone that there was something between us. How we'd look at each other a little too long, or how our sparring matches became all the more intense that it was more about coming to watch us spar each other for sport than to try and learn anything.

He made me feel strong, independent, free. He made me want to be even stronger. So I wouldn't die. I didn't ever want him to see me die. Not at the hands of a titan.

We met in secret often and I got used to his touch, craved it even.

After one especially hot encounter, he reached for his end table, I still lay there panting. Wondering why he had to move even a little bit away from me.

He took my hand and pushed something down on my finger.

Eh?

I turned my hand to look at the remarkably intricate engagement ring.

"Levi!"

"You've been mine for five months, now be mine forever." He said.

"Yes." I said happily, my heart fluttered as I hugged him. Now we would tell people, maybe even get permission to share quarters.

When Commander Erwin learned of our engagement, he looked at us with that same fatherly approval I'd expect if he hadn't been engaged to me before that. He could tell I was sure and happy with Humanity's Strongest.

The wedding wasn't big, just some paperwork and a peck on the cheek. It wasn't until I set my things down in Levi's room did I get a real kiss.

He swept me to the bed. We could forget about Titans just for one more day as husband and wife.

His hands smoothed around my hips and butt as he thrust in over and over. I wrapped my legs around him. I had learned how his rhythm would change when he was close. He tried to pull out,

"Do it inside me," I said, wrapping my legs tighter around him to stop him. Levi hesitated and looked at me with a warmth in his eyes. That meant that I really would be his wife, I might even get pregnant, but…that was okay.

"Okay," he kissed me, hands wandering and continued, building us his speed again until he pushed it all the way in. I almost screamed, and felt his warmth filling me. I pushed my hips down against it, it felt so good, every new sensation now had his signature on it. Everything I knew was his. I was so happy.

"Mn…stay like this for a minute," I said when he attempted to get up again. In defiance he thrust a few more times, causing my overly sensitive genitals to spasm and we both moaned, but in the end we lay there together, him still inside of me.

He looked at me.

I looked back.

There wasn't a word for the kiss that followed, a gesture that promised forever in one single soft touch, complete unyielding, unconditional surrender to one another. My heart felt like it was overflowing with joy. This man was my husband. My one and only love.

"Up for a sparring match?" He asked

"What? Now?" I asked.

He kissed me,

"You're an Ackerman, you better live up to your name brat." He said it, but his face offered me a rare sight. His smile. I put my arms around his neck.

"Oh?" I flipped us so that I was on top, "maybe I should show you just what I'm capable of."

"Maybe you should." He said, "Don't you fucking hold back."

"Shut up shorty…" I said teasingly biting his lower lip and holding his wrists. He raised an eyebrow and I felt him growing stiff inside me again.