Chapter 49

"You can say sorry now." Zadre boldly said to Aphrodite after she walked really close to him. "...Damn demon!" Aphrodite said in her mind, but still went ahead to say sorry for what she had done to him.

"...Okay! De....sorry Zadre. I am sincerely sorry for what i have ever done to you in the past, and i hope you can forgive me." Aphrodite softly said to Zadre, but he wouldn't moved by what she just said. 

"...Yea right!" Zadre quietly said, and turn away from her. "...I know you don't mean any of those words that just came out of your mouth....so just stay away from me okay." Zadre said to Aphrodite, and his words made her angry. 

"...Fine!" Aphrodite firmly said, and knee on one of her knees. "...No way!" Eros said to himself as he see he's mother kneeing down for a minor god like Zadre. 

"... Aphrodite you don't have to..." Dusa herself was surprised that her sister knee down just because she want to apologise to Zadre. "... sister please get up, you are the queen of the upper gods, so you don't have to knee for anybody." Dusa stated. 

"... It's fine! I want to change my ways, and i want start by sincerely apologizing to Zadre and Soul for everything i have done to them." Aphrodite said. 

"... goddess, you don't have to apologise to me... it's okay. Like seriously i don't want apologize." Soul spoke out. 

"...I still want to give it." Aphrodite firmly said to her, and then turn to Zadre who was still facing the other side. 

"...Zadre i am on my knees to plead with you for forgiveness. I am sorry for every bad thing i have ever done to you in the past, and i really hope you can forgive me." Aphrodite calmly said to him, and then he turn back to face her. 

"...I will think about it, but that doesn't mean i forgive you...." Zadre said and turn back. 

"... Please do." Aphrodite said, and stand up from the ground. 

"...Soul." Aphrodite call her. 

"... goddess, seriously I don't hate you, so you don't have to apologize to me. Everything is totally fine between us." Soul humbly said with a warm smile on her face. 

"...No!  You are the person i should truly apologize to." Aphrodite said as she walk closer to Soul. 

"... it's fine, I don't hold a grudge against you...so you don't have to apologise to me." Soul said to Aphrodite. 

"...No! I even though you don't hold a grudge against be for everything i have done to you, i still have to apologise." Aphrodite said after getting real close to her, and then knee with both feet on the ground.

"... Mother!" Eros shouts and try to help his mother up after she knee on the ground in front of Soul. 

"... It's fine my son, this is the right thing to do." Aphrodite said to him, and he step away from her. 

"...Wait! The most powerful goddess in Olympus is kneeing down in the ground because of a mortal? Is she mad or something?" Zadre thought to himself. 

"...my sister is not mad, she is just doing the right thing." Dusa who heard he's thought, said. 

".. It's strange that she is kneeing down in front of a mortal...woah! Have she really change?" Zadre ask Dusa. 

"...Yes! My sister has really change." Dusa said with joy in her heart. 

"... goddess you don't have to do this, please stand up." Soul begged Aphrodite, and then try to help her up from the ground, but she refuse to stand up. 

"... stop, just stop." Aphrodite said as she stopped soul from helping her up from the ground. 

"..Out of everybody here, you are the only person who have suffered greatly because of me. I sent the person you love so much to shoot you with his love arrow so that you will fall inlove with the demon that plaque your kingdom, and die in his hand. I even curse you with no marriage, and you lived in your father's kingdom for years without a suitor. So...i am so, so sorry soul, please forgive me for everything i had done to you." Aphrodite begged soul. 

"...I...I..." Soul was too shock to speak. She can't believe that the most powerful goddess who is widely worshipped back in her kingdom is begging her for forgiveness.

".. Please forgive me for everything i have done to you in the past princess soul." Aphrodite begged her again. 

"...come on, say you forgive her." Eros lean closer to Soul, and whisper to her. 

"...I...I..." Soul still couldn't talk, she was fixing up her words in her head. 

"... Please i am begging you, forgive me for everything i have done to you in the past." Aphrodite begged soul and hold her hands. 

"...Just forgive her already she is on her knees, my mother wouldn't go on her knees for even my father...so just forgive her already." Eros whisper to soul again. 

"... fine!" Soul spoke out, and then also knee on the ground. 

"..You are well respected and honored back in our kingdom, but do you know how i felt when i heard that the goddess i worshipped and looked up to was the one that curse me to have no suitor? I was really heartbroken." Soul revealed. 

"...I am sorry, i am really..." Aphrodite was about to say something, but soul Interrupted her. 

"... It's okay....Look." Soul said and face Eros. 

"...If you had not curse me back then or tried to kill me, i probably would have not met him, my lookalike sister, Zadre, or the mother of fate." Soul said and smiled. 

"... so you don't have to apologise to me goddess, it's fine. Everything is fine." Soul turn back to Aphrodite, and said. 

"...Are you sure about that, princess soul?" Aphrodite ask her. "..Yes goddess, everything is good between us... so stand up. A goddess like yourself should not knee in front of a mere mortal like me.... it's not proper." Soul said, and then help Aphrodite up.

"...Now i see why my son fell inlove with you." Aphrodite said, and soul frowned a little. 

"...You might be thinking that he did not fall inlove with you. Aphrodite who noticed the way Soul frowned her face, said to her. 

"...Mother...you don't have...." Eros was about stop his mother from saying anything about what happened the night he tried to shot soul with his love arrows, but Aphrodite shut him with just a look. 

"...I know you doubt the love you and my son shared after finding out that he was shot by his love arrows and that's why he fell inlove with you." Aphrodite turn to soul, and said. 

"...Yes, i do doubt the love we both share because it isn't genuine. Eros only fell inlove with me just because he accidentally shot himself with his own love arrow. I love him genuinely, but I don't think we can say the same." Soul said in a sad tone. 

"...Soul...." Eros was about to explain something to her, but Aphrodite cut his words short again with just a look. 

"...Tell me tell you something that even my son don't know." Aphrodite said to Soul. "...Okay! What's that?" Soul immediately ask her. 

"...When Eros accidentally shot himself with the arrow he was suppose to shoot you, he was supposed to fall inlove with the demon not you, do you know why?" Aphrodite ask her. "..No I don't know, please tell me." Soul said to her. 

"...the arrow my son shot himself with was suppose to make YOU fall inlove with the demon that plaque your kingdom, but after Eros shot himself with the arrow, he did not fall inlove with the demon because he had already fell inlove with you." Aphrodite revealed. 

"...I don't understand what you mean goddess." Soul said to her. 

"..okay! Let me break this down for you." Aphrodite said, and then conjure up one of Eros love arrow in her hand. 

"... Eros love arrow was created to gods and mortals fall inlove with the person they were destined to be with, but! You can also use the love arrow to make mortals fall inlove with the people they were not destined to be with....by changing his course with a strong magic." Aphrodite explained.  

"...So what are you trying to say goddess?" Soul who was still confused, ask her. 

"...I am trying to tell you that the reason why my son did not fall inlove with that demon BUT fell inlove with you after shooting himself with the arrow was because his genuine love for you overwrite that of the demon, and so that's why fell inlove with you instead of that Demon." Aphrodite revealed, but Soul understand only a little of what she just said.

"..Mother why didn't you tell me any of this in the past?" Eros ask her after listening to what she just said. 

"...sorry about that. My bad." Aphrodite said, and face soul. 

"...Look, you don't have to keep doubting the love you and Eros have for each other. He's love for you is as genuine as yours for him." Aphrodite softly said to her. 

"...Yeah....i think you are right." Soul spoke out and look at Eros. They both locked eyes and smiled at each other. 

"...I believe you are right." Soul face Aphrodite, and said to her with a smile on her face.

".. impressive!!" The mother of fate who have been quiet the whole time, spoke out and her voice filled her entire resting place.