Aurelia sighed, annoyed when Phoenix came running back into the apartment, looking as if she'd just seen a ghost. Her eyebrow raised slightly and her lip curled. "What happened to you?"

Phoenix dropped on the white armchair without being invited. "Donavon and I are soulmates," she whined.

Aurelia's eyes rolled. "That fucking soulmate connection is a real pain in the ass," she snorted, thinking of Blaine. As if your complete opposite could be someone you could never live without.

"Tell me about it," Phoenix moaned. "And to top it all off, he's trying to kill me as well." She got up and headed over to the drinks cabinet, helping herself.

Aurelia shook her head in annoyance. "Been there, done that. It almost seems inevitable for some people." She remembered faintly she and Blaine hadn't done anything about their contracts to kill each other.

Phoenix leaned against the drinks cabinet. "What am I supposed to do about it?"

Aurelia shrugged and turned her attention back to the tacky cable TV movie she had been watching before she had been rudely interrupted. "Not my problem."

She heard Phoenix sigh with irritation. "You're not much help," she snapped, and a minute later the door to the spare bedroom slammed shut.

Aurelia's eyes rolled. As if Phoenix hasn't seen this coming from ten feet away. She was still slightly annoyed about it. Donavon was much more fun than Blaine.

But, as she had pointed out, it was Phoenix's problem, not hers.

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Phoenix lay awake in bed for whatever was left of the night. She was too wound up to sleep. She just couldn't believe this whole pathetic soulmate thing.

She herself had not been counting on it hitting her. But that was part of the whole soulmate thing. It always hit when you least expected it to.

Aurelia had been in the same situation with Blaine, and they were both still alive. Hating each other and insulting each other whenever under the same roof, but still alive. Better than being dead, Phoenix supposed.

She should have known better than to ask the bitch for any help. Aurelia only looked out for Number One.

She was stuck figuring out this one on her own. Only the problem was, she didn't have a clue what she was supposed to be figuring out.

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