Devoted by Lark Taylor

Fate always has a plan.
Even if you don’t agree with it.
Ezekiel
Starting that online game was my attempt to find happiness. Something to fill my life other than the demands of Heaven and the rest of my unit.
I didn’t expect to find Sam.
Even with screens between us, Sam makes me feel more alive than I have in millennia. I find myself counting down the minutes until I can go online and be with him.
He’s my perfect match. In any other circumstances, I’d be doing whatever it took to make him mine.
But I’m not human. And, unlike humans, I have no say over who I spend eternity with. Fate decides who my mate will be, whether it’s the person I love or not.
Sam lives in the same city as me. If he were my mate, I’d have met him by now. I’d feel a pull towards him that I couldn’t ignore.
The right thing to do would be to end this. To put up walls between us to keep both our hearts safe. Instead, I find myself tearing down the barriers, falling faster for him every day.
I know how this story will end, but I can’t stop myself. I don’t care what plans fate has for me.
I want to make Sam mine.