Chapter 16 Solumate
/Edlyn/
I don’t know what I expected maybe a quiet stroll through the market, some polite conversation, and Jasmine insisting I pick a few things.
What I got instead was a full-blown fashion hurricane.
“Okay, turn around!” Jasmine said, practically bouncing on her heels as she shoved another pile of clothes into my arms. “No, no not that one! The red one! Goddess, Edlyn, that dress was made for you.”
I groaned, holding the mountain of fabric like a hostage. “You’ve said that about every single dress so far.”
“Because it’s true!” she squealed, clapping her hands as I stepped out of the fitting room for the tenth time. “Oh my Goddess look at you!”
The reflection staring back at me barely looked like me. The dress clung in all the right places, flowing down my legs like silk poured from the heavens.
Jasmine gasped dramatically. “Gosh, you have the perfect body! If I had your waist and those curves? I’d never wear clothes again.”
“Jasmine!” I sputtered, trying not to laugh. Gosh i love the idea of her being my friend already, life won't be ever bored with her.
“What?” she said innocently. “You’re built like a goddess and you don’t even try! It’s a crime, honestly.”
Moon chuckled softly in my head. She’s… enthusiastic.
“You think?” I muttered under my breath, stepping back into the changing booth.
Vamp hummed lazily. I like her. She appreciates beauty when she sees it. A true connoisseur of chaos.
“Please don’t encourage her,” I warned, pulling on another dress this one a deep emerald that shimmered under the light.
The curtain slid open before I could even fix the straps. Jasmine squealed again, clasping her hands under her chin. “Okay, now that one is illegal. You’re coming home with me. We’re taking selfies. We’re burning the world.”
I couldn’t help it I laughed, for real this time. It had been so long since I’d laughed like that.
Maybe too long.
And just as that warmth spread through my chest that fragile sense of peace everything went wrong.
Vamp suddenly growled, low and sharp, the sound vibrating through my skull. Wait.
I froze mid-laugh. “Vamp?”
Moon’s tone instantly shifted, alert. What’s wrong?
That scent. Vamp’s voice was darker now. That blood. I know it. I’d recognize it anywhere.
A cold shiver ran down my spine.
“Vamp, stop,” I whispered, gripping the edge of the fitting room door. “Not here.”
But she didn’t stop.
She roared.
Not out loud inside my head. A violent surge of power ripped through me like fire and thunder combined.
Before I could even scream, everything snapped.
My body jerked my vision went black, then gold, then blood-red. And suddenly, I wasn’t the one moving anymore. Vamp had taken over.
“Edlyn!” Jasmine’s voice echoed somewhere far behind me. “Where are you going? Edlyn, wait!”
But my legs are no longer in my control any more, they were already running. Fast. Too fast. The air blurred past as Vamp tore through the street, leaving Jasmine shouting in confusion behind.
Moon’s voice trembled, shocked. Vamp! What are you doing?!
Vamp laughed cold, wicked, feral. Going after the one who dares to breathe that amazing scent in front of me.
I was screaming inside, my consciousness trapped like a ghost behind glass.
“Vamp! What the hell are you doing?! What the hell?!”
She ignored me. Her claws flexed actual claws glinting in the sunlight as she moved faster, guided by some invisible pull.
Oh, I’ve missed this feeling, she purred. The hunt. The blood. The bond.
“bond?!” I yelled from inside my own head. “You’re about to get us killed!” what kind of bond was she talking about... Vamp doesn't even have the ability to take over my body... non of my better halves does... this was first.
Moon tried to cut in, her voice desperate. Vamp, listen to me. You can’t just
Silence, Vamp snapped. You had your turn at peace. Now it’s mine.
And then everything tilted. The world spun, and I realized with growing horror where she was heading deep into the forest behind the market, where the scent grew stronger. i can smell it now an heaven tha smells great...
Vamp hissed, her lips curling into a dark smile. I found you.
Vamp skidded to a stop in the middle of the forest. Leaves were everywhere and the wind rushed past us in ragged bursts, echoing her heavy breathing.
For a heartbeat, everything went still.
Then she growled, low and furious. “Damn it.”
Moon’s voice was sharp with confusion. What happened? Why did you stop?
Vamp’s eyes darted wildly, scanning the empty trees. “We lost him.”
Lost who? Moon demanded.
“Yeah, Vamp,” I snapped from the back of my own head, still trapped in the mental darkness she shoved me into. “Who exactly did we lose? You just hijacked my body and sprinted across half the damn pack grounds like a lunatic!”
Vamp ignored me, sniffing the air again, her pupils dilating. “His scent is gone…” she hissed, her voice shaking between anger and something dangerously close to awe. “But I smelled him. I know I did.”
Moon’s voice lowered, wary. Vamp… who did you smell?
“Our soulmate,” she said simply.
The silence that followed could have swallowed the world.
Then, both Moon and I yelled at once...
“WHAT?!”
Vamp turned her head slowly, crimson eyes glinting. “Don’t look at me like that. I know what I smelled. That scent—” she pressed a clawed hand into a nearby tree, leaving deep grooves in the bark “was pure. Ancient. Undeniably ours.”
Moon was the first to recover. That’s impossible. Nelson is our mate. The Moon Goddess doesn’t give double bonds.
Vamp scoffed, spinning around to face the wind again. “Nelson,” she said, her voice dripping with disdain, “is mated to your wolf side. That’s your Moon Goddess bond soft, sacred, and all that emotional nonsense.”
Moon growled in warning. Watch your tone, leech.
Vamp ignored her, continuing with a dangerous smile curling her lips. “But that scent I caught? That wasn’t wolf. That wasn’t fae. That was vampire.”
My stomach dropped. “Wait what? Vampire? Are you telling me—”
“Yes,” Vamp interrupted, eyes glowing brighter. “It means we have two mates.”
Both Moon and I froze again.
“That’s not possible,” I whispered. “It can’t be.” Am mated to two different creatures...? How the hell is that even possible...? Wolves and Vampire can’t even co-exist with each other... How can i be mated to two different creatures, That's impossible.
Vamp tilted her head, expression wild and certain. “Oh, it’s possible, Edlyn. You and I we’re two halves of one soul. You carry Moon’s light and my darkness. So it makes sense that fate gave us both what we were born from.”
Moon’s voice trembled, torn between disbelief and anger. You mean one mate chosen by the Goddess… and one by blood.
“Exactly,” Vamp said, lips curling into a smirk. “Nelson belongs to your wolf half. But that vampire—” she inhaled sharply again, frustration flashing in her tone— “he’s mine. My blood calls to his.”
I felt my heart hammer painfully inside my chest. “So what? You’re saying I’m supposed to share my body and my love life with two different people?”
Vamp laughed, low and wicked. “Welcome to hybridhood, darling. Complicated is the default setting.”
Moon groaned softly. This is madness.
“And yet,” Vamp murmured, looking out into the forest, “it feels right. The pull was real. I know what I felt. Two bonds, two destinies.”
Moon’s voice turned grim. Or one giant disaster waiting to happen.
Vamp didn’t answer. For the first time, she looked almost… uneasy.
And through our shared heartbeat, I felt it that flicker of fear again. But the scent from ealier was smelt like the best thing ever... it was short and just a little smelt was all i perceived imagining what the really scent we be like we be insane man.
Because if she was right, then fate didn’t just give us one soulmate.
It gave us two.
And one of them was a vampire. But what about the fact that am a witch and a fairy as well...? Gosh i dont even want to think about this.