THE SEARCH

Ethan

Just as I stood at the party, my mind was lost in thoughts of what I had just discovered. Inasmuch as people were dancing, I didn’t feel any need to have any bit of fun.

My heart had a lot of questions and was filled with a countless uncertainty.

The old man that day had given me a book which he said would answer every single question I had about my research quest and just as he said, it happened.

That night, I returned to my room and once my brothers were asleep, I brought it out and scanned through the different pages of the book.

The book was encircled around the story of a girl who got mated to four people. At first, it looked like her mere imagination until she because certain that she was indeed mated to four people.

As I read further, I learnt that at the end of the day, a choice had to be made. That simply meant that she would pick one of us to would eventually mark her as his forever…

That was the part that made my heart fly out of my chest. We were her mates, but n