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“What do you mean you're linked?” Kat asked Sascha, sounding shocked.

“Just like you and Prescott.” Sascha couldn’t be any happier about it.

“You’re getting married.” Kat didn’t ask; she stated the fact.

“Who told you that?” Sascha wished she’d already told Kat that Gregory had told his parents and Rose they were getting married.

“Everyone. Stephanie—well, she mentioned it to Prescott, not me. She’s not on speaking terms with me. Rose, Aunt Meg. Others. I can’t believe I had to learn it secondhand.”

“Sorry. It’s not like you think. Wait, Aunt Meg knows?” Sascha hadn’t really expected that.

“Yes. She called me to learn if I knew about it.”

“Uhm, okay. Well, Gregory told his parents when we went over there to have lunch with them today. I didn’t agree to getting married. Gregory didn’t even ask me if I wanted to marry him. I don’t even have an engagement ring.” She looked at her bare hand.

“Easily remedied,” Gregory said, still on the phone with Prescott. He smiled at her.

Sascha frowned at him and said to Kat, “So it’s not a done deal.”

“Did you, uhm, you know, have sex?” Katrina sounded a little worried.

“Not all the way. And what about the marriage part? Aunt Meg said we couldn’t have sex before marriage, even if the guy is our soulmate.” Sascha had almost forgotten that part.

“Now that, Aunt Meg told me, wasn’t true.”

“You’re kidding!” Sascha was so relieved. But she couldn’t believe her aunt had kept that from them.

“Yeah. You don’t have to wait to have sex until after marriage. But you do have to be soulmates, or you will lose your abilities.”

“I always wondered if maybe I had lost my powers before because Damon and I weren’t married yet.” Then totally forgot about it when she became infatuated with Gregory. She was hopeless.

“Nope. You and Damon aren’t soulmates. You’re really linked to Gregory?”

“Yeah. Though it’s iffy at times. If I’m thinking about other things, I can’t read his thoughts. I think he misses a lot of what I’m thinking because he’s not used to any of this.”

“The same thing happened between Prescott and me. Ask Aunt Meg if you’re soulmates. I suspected that once I learned Prescott and I were linked, we were soulmates, but Aunt Meg wouldn’t tell me whether we were or not. Maybe she’ll tell you though.”

“Oh, I’m getting a call from her. I’ll call you back in a little while. Hello, Aunt Meg?” Sascha said, worried she would get scolded for not telling her about the plan to marry Gregory.

Gregory, hearing Sascha was talking to Aunt Meg, said to Prescott, “I’ve got to go. Talk to you later.”

“What’s this business of planning to marry Gregory without talking to me first?” Aunt Meg asked, sounding annoyed.

“That was Gregory’s idea. He told his parents. I didn’t have anything to do with it.”

“But you’re agreeable.”

Sascha sighed. “He knows about us, and he believes in all of it. So yeah, if we’re soulmates, I am.”

“And you’re linked.”

“Uh, yeah.” Sascha figured her aunt had read her mind.

“Did he get you a ring?”

“Not yet.”