?Fated goes beyond spiritual mumblings of humans speaking about karma and the universe being in their favor and set destinations. To be fated is our souls connecting on a level we even now still do not understand. It is not something we as beings can fully comprehend.
?“I promise,” I mouth, my lips still tracing over hers, “I am yours in every lifetime.”
?Her eyes snap open as she pulls away and a gasp leaves her mouth as her eyes flood red. The color stark and vivid and pure.
?“What did you just say?”
?“I am yours,” I repeat, and I will repeat it for the rest of my life and all of the ones after, “inevery.Lifetime.”
?I see it again. That flicker past the color of her eyes. A shadow of a soul hidden so deep within her not even her fated can see it.
?Varian said he didn’t think she had a soul because of how she felt. Castiel said she told him that she had ripped it out, even though Darian corrected him by saying she had purposefully lied to him.
?But I see now.
?Her soul is there. And I will wait for however long she needs me to until she wishes to show it to me.
Twenty
Mavyn – Novam 21
The bell in the old clocktower rings.
?One.
?Thorne had left me here with another promise to be back after midnight and to keep all entrances and exits locked.
?Two.
?He touched my face. He traced my lips and there wasn’t a flicker of pain.
?Three.
?He said he would be mine. I am not his in every lifetime, he wants to be mine.
?Four.
?I think he saw part of my soul. I think he saw part of it and I wonder how much he would wish to be mine if he knew the truth.
?Five.
?It is not through self-loathing or hatred when I say I am nothing.
?Six.
?It is not through low self-esteem when I say I am not worthy. I am speaking fact, for the actions of my past represent my worth.
?Seven.
?Thorne’s father knows about the Forgotten God of Blood Moons.
?Eight.
?I still can’t remember his name.
?Nine.
?I still can’t remember his name.
