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“Yes, she is just like you.”
“But she left, does that mean it’s not possible to control it ever?”
“Your mother was not meant for your father. Her only purpose for being here was to have you.”
“To have me? But…”
“This trait is only passed through the women in a family. Going from mother to daughter. And in fact...it is only your line, one descended from Revati herself that have this gift.”
“This gift? You mean this curse,” I spit out, wondering how anyone could consider such a thing as good.
“You think it’s not a gift. The fact that your soul was splintered before you were born, and you actually have the ability to get the pieces back? The rest of us spend our whole lives feeling like something is missing. Because something is. The idea that our soulmates are in our lives is a lie made up to make us feel better. In fact, pieces of our soul are scattered throughout time by the gods, and only your line has been deemed special enough to be able to reunite with them.”
“I…”
“Have you not felt like something was missing when you left each of your men? Have you not felt literally like your soul was being tortured?”
I stare at her in shock.
Her face gentles. “Darling, this is a gift.”
“Then why did I lose them after I found them if I was meant to reunite with them?”
“That’s the difference between you and Revati. While the other half of her soul was just with one man, you and your mother’s souls are with several. Your mother was not yet done with her journey when you were born.”
There’s silence as I try to absorb everything she just said. It doesn’t seem like it’s even in the realm of possibility. But I know better than anyone about the impossible being possible.
“So how do I control it?”
“If I’m right, and I seldom am wrong. I believe that the cycle should start over. You will just need to find a way to take your men with you as you travel until you are reunited with all of them.”
“But how do I do that?”
Her voice is somber. “I do not know. I only know that it is possible.”
I try and suppress a sob of frustration. Two steps forward, one step back. I hadn’t been able to take Liam with me, and I often disappeared when I was alone. How was it possible to take them with me? And what would happen if I did take them away with me? If James was no longer the King of England?
“Are there rules?” I ask.
“Rules?”
“Rules for how this works. I mean you hear those stories of how even one action can have a ripple effect on time and the rest of history.”
She laughs and shakes her head.
“There are no rules in love. How foolish we are to think that something we do hasn’t already been predicted and accounted for by the gods.”
She stands up abruptly. “I think it’s time you were headed back,” she says to me.
“But I have so many more questions,” I plead with her.
“And there will perhaps be time for them in the future,” she says. “But for now, you must get back.”
I nod frustratedly and follow her outside, the splendor of the inside of her home fading back into the dilapidated structure that it was on the outside. I feel like I’m in a daze. Looking around I realize that my guard is nowhere to be found.
“Where did he….”
“I sent him away. He’ll think that the King ordered him to return and have no memory of this trip. Your journey back to the Palace must be made alone,” she says, a twinkle in her eye hinting that she knows something that I don’t.
