Shifting Fates
READING AGE 18+
Isn’t love supposed to be easy, all knowing, powerful? Don’t most people believe in soul mates, or is that now just a foreign thing? Finding the one person you’re meant to spend the rest of your life with, some fairy tale huh?
Not for me. I knew it existed. I knew I would find it. I knew I wanted it. I never in a million years thought it would come in the form of something forbidden, unattainable. Yet here it was. Dangling in front of me like the apple from the Garden of Eden. I couldn’t reach out and take it. I couldn’t bask in the glory of being the one that found my soulmate. They were so rare now, it was hardly talked about. Somehow our kind evolved into not needing the mate bond, how was that even possible?
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“It’s rare. Why would I pass it up?” His words come out so soft and gentle, my heart nearly melted. Nearly.
“Rare or not, we cannot be.” My own words are stabbing daggers into my chest as I stare at him. His eyes are staring straight into my heart. He knows me. He knows this is not what I want. How we never knew we were mates until this moment, I will never understand.
Unfold
Aspen
Holy mother of Moon Goddess! What was happening? I’d been bathing for tomorrow when his scent hit me. Like a thousand pounds of bricks. I’d obviously had the same effect, because he was aroused. But when I saw him, I couldn’t even believe it. It was like I felt with Silas, but so much stronger. The way I fel……
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