in a universe where everyone is born with numbers on their wrists counting down to when theyâll meet their soulmate, send me 00:00:00 for my museâs reaction to their numbers hitting zero when they meet yours.
Eden had never expected to get her number. She was over 400, and Lucian never had one. She assumed that being a vampire, which meant being technically dead, meant not getting one or having a soul mate. That was something for the living to enjoy.
But then, one day, like magic, it appeared on her skin. But itâs....odd. Her clock only had a few years on it and not nearly enough time. And she wasnât a pedophile, she has no interest in a child (though she supposed to her everyone was a child). But the clock stayed, and ticked away, until it got down to the last few seconds when she met James.
She was confused, at first. He was a grown man, not a child, so why had her clock not started when he was born? Why did it start so late in his life and not the beginning like everyone else? But she doesnât question it, too much anyway.
Until it bothered her too much one day and decided to ask. âWhy did your clock for me start so late? Why did it just....show up out of the blue if you were always destined for me?â