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Nathaniel took a deep breath in and swallowed his initial response that was forming on his lips. He needed to deal with this problem quickly and the best way was to not offend his mother.She didn’t know that he was not attracted to women. She was just frustrated that he wasn’t courting any lady yet and was nowhere near marriage. His mother had jumped to a wrong conclusion after being told some falsehoods. First he needed to make things clear to her. Then he needed to find out who had lied to her.“Mother, I cannot go ahead with any marriage arrangements. This was all based on a misunderstanding from someone claiming to be my friend. I understand that Lady Clarence has somehow developed feelings for me and it will be awkward to go back to her parents and disappoint them by telling them that I am not interested, but it will need to be done,” he said calmly. “I will forgive you for making a rash decision if you do this.”There were tears in his mother’s eyes and he knew he had disappoin
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Nathaniel was completely thrown by her unexpected request. He had predicted that she would act like a standard well bred lady and would apologize with her gaze aimed downwards before leaving quickly.Miss. Prim spluttered into speech. “Lady Celestia! You cannot say that. You told me we were here to apologize.”Celestia ignored her companion. “My parents want me to marry, you are under pressure to marry. It would be mutually beneficial for us.”Her offer did make some sense. He had just been telling Leopold he would sort out the marriage issue. There was a solution right in front of him. Should he take it?Celestia was a pretty woman and she had some intelligence. She was also popular with men judging from what he had seen at balls. If he told her he had another lover, it would be easy for her to find her own.He observed her bright eyes and pink cheeks. He couldn’t do it.She was too fond of him. He knew he would be hurting her feelings if he agreed to marriage only to turn around and
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Nathaniel wasted no time that night in writing a letter to Leopold. He needed to tell him that it would be best if they did not see each other for a while. He spent some time carefully wording the letter so he wouldn’t upset Leopold.Lady Celestia hadn’t said anything to him about knowing his secret. If she had feelings for him, she wouldn’t want to send him to prison. He felt like he could trust her to keep silent. Dwight was the problem.He summoned Henry again. His butler looked like he had dressed in a rush as he was not as neatly attired as usual.“Please take this to Mr. Leopold’s house as soon as possible,” he instructed and held out the letter. “Make sure it goes to his hands.”Henry looked openly at the clock. It was past midnight by now.“It is late,” he pointed out. “His household will likely all be asleep. Would it be fine to simply slip it under the front door? Or perhaps wait until tomorrow?”“That is acceptable,” he acquiesced. “It will have to be that. I do not want to
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It took a week for Nathaniel to find out that things could actually get worse. When he arrived at the breakfast table one morning, his mother silently passed him the morning newspaper. Her face was expressionless.He read the headline of the front page and his breath caught in his throat. Nathaniel read it again just to make sure and his breathing returned in short panicked bursts.Leopold was dead.His eyes quickly scanned through the article. Leopold Arlington had been stabbed viciously several times by a visitor to his house and had bled out before he could be taken to the nearest doctor.The attacker had fled, but had been caught by officers at the end of the street.“Nathaniel,” his mother said. “I have held no ill will towards your lover. I am sorry that he had to die this way.”He wasn’t listening to her. His eyes kept rereading the headline. The article made no mention of homosexuality and it was one thing to be glad for.“Nathaniel, I know who stabbed him,” his mother told him
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Leo’s soul came bounding towards him. Nocturne beamed at it.“I have finally found you,” he said aloud.He opened the soul transit container and held it out. Leo’s soul circled around him and then floated into the container.Nocturne took that to mean that Leo’s soul was able to recognize him. He smiled gently at it. He closed the container and debated on his next course of action.There was no way of knowing how much time had passed whilst he had been in the wilderness. He had gone through nine past lives and for all he knew it had been days.The nine past lives had displayed similar themes. Celeste had been in five of them, in two she had worked alone and there had been no Draven. The devil had been the antagonist in the other four lives all by himself.Nocturne’s fist curled as he thought about Draven. He had slain Leo in front of him an uncomfortable amount of times. If he saw him again, he vowed to punch him in the face.He just had to get back to the right place so he could retu
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Nocturne looked at Draven with complete skepticism. He could hardly be blamed for it, he was talking to the devil after all.Next to him Celeste was nodding. He was more willing to listen to her.“I can see you don’t believe him. I will add my own ideas,” she said. “When you and Leo were alive, my brain was always foggy and I did some crazy things. I saw Leo as an enemy and I would be obsessed with you. Once you two were dead in a past life, the fog would be cleared and I had control of myself again.”Something occurred to Nocturne and he looked her deep in the eyes so he could watch for her reaction.“Did you fall in love with me when you first saw me this time?” he asked.Celeste nodded. “I did. Like I always do. You didn’t notice. You never do.”“I would say that there is something wrong with your eyes,” Draven drawled. “But I think that someone had designed you that way.”“Are you still in love with me now?” Nocturne inquired cautiously.He didn’t get the feeling she was. However,
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Leo woke up slowly. His senses returned to him gradually. He was lying on something soft that quickly became less comfortable the longer he lay there. He opened his eyes to check what he was lying on. Maybe he had fallen off the bed and was on the carpet by his bed instead. The problem was that it felt like grass instead and a glance downwards confirmed it.Another glance upwards showed that he definitely wasn’t in his bedroom. He was outside underneath a blue sky. There was a faint breeze moving over his body. Leo sat up suddenly and put his hand on his chest to check for a wound. He had been stabbed in the chest. It was coming back to him now.He had died this time for sure. One of Nocturne’s servants had taken his soul. He had given it up without much thought. He had already cheated death once. It didn’t feel right to do it again.Where was he now then?Leo stood up and surveyed his surroundings. He was in a field and could only see more fields around him. It was pleasantly warm
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The man looked surprised at his question. “How did you work it all out?” he asked. “You feel like Nocturne,” Leo said simply. “The story you told could only be told by the entity himself so that’s how I worked out that part.”Whilst the man didn’t look like his boyfriend, the feeling he gave off was the same. The tender glance he had been given earlier had been the biggest hint.“I suppose I must do then,” the man sighed.Leo considered the rest of the story. Whilst he had been alive he had been Nocturne’s only lover. That all added up to one thing. “The human you fell in love with,” he began with some awkwardness. “Was it another version of me?”It would be embarrassing if it turned out he had jumped to conclusions and this man was talking about someone else. He had been correct with his other two wild guesses so he was sure he was right about this one.The entity didn’t reply immediately and simply stared at him like he was memorizing the sight of him.“Yes,” he said slowly. “It
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“I don’t have any romantic feelings for Atlas,” Leo said as they looked up at the sky.Nocturne glanced at him in surprise before replying. “I’m fully aware of that.”“I just thought I would tell you. I know you have complicated feelings about the entity,” the blond told him. “The only person I love is you. I don’t love your former self in any way. I feel sorry for him instead.”It was a relief to hear those words even though he had never suspected Leo of harboring romantic feelings for the entity.“I think anyone would have mixed feelings about the person who made them go through painful lives because they saw falling love as a weakness instead of something normal,” he said lightly. “I’m mostly neutral on the subject of the entity now. He apologized and he has arranged this new life for us.”“I wonder what our next life will bring,” Leo said wistfully. “We’ve both achieved a lot this time. I’m a successful author in my genre and you’re the CEO of a profitable company.”Nocturne’s foc
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Nocturne found that he still had the folder with all the wedding planning information in the same place on the kitchen table. The most important thing to do was find out if the wedding was in the same place. Everything else could wait.“We are using the same wedding hall in this life,” he told Leo. “It seems this wedding was more expensive. The price for the decorations and the catering are higher than before.”Leo put four slices of bread in the toaster.“Glad to know that we’re not going to turn up at the wrong place,” he said. “My headache has gone now. What about you?”The former ruler of the underworld gently touched his head and was relieved to feel nothing.“I’m fine now,” he said.He experimentally tried to teleport to the underworld and nothing happened. It was odd to think that he would never see the underworld again whilst he was alive. When he would see it again, he would just be yet another soul there to be judged.It was bittersweet.His job as the ruler of the underworl
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“I want to be with you,” Leo said fondly. “I admit that I also want to get married tomorrow. If we could somehow be transplanted back into the human world I came originally from, it would be amazing. I’m just worried that it’s not possible.”Nocturne ruffled his hair. “That was what I’m hoping for too. I would also like for the underworld to be stable after we leave as well.”Leo considered the different worlds. Technically they had all been created because of him. Atlas had created another human world after he had died as well as the current system of life and death.The other two people at the table had been created because of him too. They wanted to sacrifice themselves to help him as well. He was conflicted about everything.A while later, a stone faced Atlas approached their table.“Leo, can I speak to you in private?” he requested.“You may,” Leo said.It made sense that Atlas would want to say something to him. This was all because of him. The throne room disappeared around hi
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“What options can you offer us?” Leo asked.He thought about the wedding that was waiting for them the next day with a pang.“Your first option is to enter the reincarnation cycle and eventually live another life,” Atlas told him. “You two always find each other so there is no need to worry. You two could also take up positions in the underworld."The blond knew that wasn’t something he wanted to be involved with. He was too sentimental to be dealing with death all day.“Is there any chance we can go back to the test world?” Nocturne asked. “I’ve become attached to it and I would like to have the wedding I’ve been waiting a year for.”Leo was pleased that they were thinking along the same lines.An expression of pain shot across Atlas’ face. Leo looked at him carefully and saw how tired he was looking. His skin was almost translucent.“Atlas, are your powers growing weak?” he asked quietly.“I do not have too much left in me,” the entity admitted. “I have lived for a long time and set
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The two of them reached the town a little too late to recreate the timing of their first date. The lunch period was in full swing at the coffee shop and they ended up squashed on a small table between two families with crying children.Leo frowned as he thought about how Nocturne had arrived whilst he had been sitting outside the coffee shop all those years ago and asked if he could sit next to him.“How did you find where I was on the day we met for the third time?” the blond asked. “You couldn’t have stalked me beforehand because it was only the morning after I rejected you.”Nocturne stirred his drink. “Remember I wasn’t human. I teleported to your house first and found you weren’t there. I went through your bedroom to learn things about you. Then I transformed into a human and the rest is history.”“I wonder if any other Grim Reaper put in that effort to chase a human,” Leo said. “You went to some trouble to date me.”The former ruler of the underworld winced for some reason and t
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Leo burst out laughing. The man in the jewelry shop had mentioned another customer before him buying a ring to propose that very evening. It had been Nocturne all along.What were the chances of them choosing the same ring and the same day to propose?“It feels like we’re fated,” he said. “The same ring and the same day.”Nocturne placed the other ring carefully on Leo’s ring finger. It fitted perfectly. Leo held up his hand and admired it.“I had been planning to gauge your opinion on marriage and then you asked me for mine,” Nocturne said softly. “I guess that should have been the clue we were thinking on the same lines. You confirmed you wanted to marry me and I went to buy a ring that I had seen earlier."Leo smiled as he realized they had followed exactly the same steps.“I was planning to propose to you when you came back from work in the hallway so it would be the first thing you saw when you came in. I was disconcerted to find you had come back early,” he admitted.“In my mind
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The blond didn’t waste any time in pursuing his mission. He had seen the ring in the morning and he took the first chance he could to ask Nocturne for his opinion on marriage in person. It wasn't a conversation to have by text or over a call.His boyfriend returned from the office as he was serving up dinner. Leo had expanded his cooking repertoire over the years and had seven meals he could make for dinner. He made dinner on weeknights and Nocturne cooked much better meals at the weekend so it all worked out.Leo waited until they were both sitting at the table to broach the topic of marriage.“Nocturne, what are your opinions on marriage?” he asked. “I mean marriage for yourself.”His boyfriend raised his eyebrows. “That’s a random question. What brought it on?”“It doesn’t matter. I just want to know your opinion,” Leo replied.He had learnt over time that Nocturne was good at avoiding questions he didn’t want to answer.Nocturne frowned over the question and took a long moment to
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Something strange happened on the evening of their seventh anniversary together.The two of them decided to celebrate their seventh year together at their favorite casual dining restaurant. Leo had introduced Nocturne to it on their fifth date. Their preferred table was outside looking over the harbor.During the wait between their main course and the dessert, Nocturne briefly left him alone at the table to order more drinks at the counter. Leo occupied himself by taking a photo of the candles on the table so he could post about their anniversary on his personal social media account. He was in the process of writing the caption when someone sat down opposite him.The smile on his face died when he saw it wasn’t Nocturne returning from the counter. It was a man he didn’t know.The man was attractive in a similar way only his hair was long and black and his skin was unearthly pale.“That seat is taken by my boyfriend,” Leo told him.He didn’t entirely know why this man had chosen to tak
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He was ready to find this man and give him a piece of his mind. Leo moved towards the door. Angela cleared her throat and he stopped. Maybe he had reacted too fast.“You don’t have to go and punch him. Nocturne spent a lot of time working on a report for HR to get him removed for harassment. He submitted it this morning. There’s so many witnesses to everything, it should be an easy case for HR,” Angela informed him. “Levi is being questioned in the HR office right now."Leo realized that he had been naive to think that Nocturne wouldn’t use official channels to do something about someone harassing him. His boyfriend was thorough like that.It made sense that Nocturne had told him not to worry about him and that things would be sorted soon with the ‘difficult client’.He sat back down at the table. It appeared he didn’t have to go and defend his boyfriend from Levi. Nocturne had already done everything necessary.“I would still go and say something to him on a personal level,” Angela s
