Delightful. Asshole.
If she didn’t love him so damn much, she’d wash his mouth out with soap, just like the killjoy nanny he’d once accused her of being. But his name was irrevocably embedded in each insistent thump-thump of her now-full heart, so instead she simply kissed him back.
And truly, it was the only reliable way to shut him up.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Fandoms: Gods of the Gates – E. Wade, Gods of the Gates （TV）
Relationships: Cupid/Original Character
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe – Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Cupid Is Extra, Happy Ending
Stats: Words: 509 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 8 Kudos: 54 Bookmarks: 9
Rainbow
RobinUnleashed
Summary:
Robin has lived in black-and-white so long, she’s forgotten color even exists for others, people who’ve found their soulmates. Then she meets Cupid, and everything changes.
Notes:
You said you didn’t need a present, but I disagreed.
Thank you to AeneasLovesLavinia for the beta read.
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The man is ludicrously handsome. She might even say he’s offensively handsome. He’s smug too, with a sly grin and a wicked twinkle in his eyes. She can’t determine the color of those eyes, but whatever the color is, it’s surely beautiful, like the rest of him.
No doubt he can see the many shades comprising his agile body and perfect features, because a man like him has to have a soulmate. A man like him has surely met that soulmate and caused her a great deal of bother, despite the happy future awaiting them.
He settles in the seat designated for patients in the triage room, one ankle crossed over his opposite knee, as if he came to the ER for an idle chat.
“What seems to be the problem?” she asks in her normal unflappable-nurse voice.
“I’m researching for a role. I need to speak with hospital employees, and I didn’t want to wait until Monday to get permission from the administrators.” He leans in close, as if sharing a secret. “I’m not always the most patient of men, Nurse …” He glances at her name badge. “Robin.”
Now she recognizes him. The man in front of her is Cupid, an award-winning actor who’s famously talented, famously gorgeous, famously wealthy, and simply … famous.
But in her ER, that doesn’t matter.
She stares at him stonily. “If you’re not injured or ill, I’ll have to ask you to leave.”
“Killjoy.” He sighs and rolls his eyes at her. “Fine, then. My heart is hurting. Do something about it, Nurse Wretched.”
She fights the urge to roll her own eyes. “I believe that’s Nurse Ratched.”
“I said what I said.” That obnoxious grin is back.
So she asks him to roll up his crisp white shirtsleeve, and she prepares to take his blood pressure. Only—
The standard, rote procedure has never felt like this before. The contact with his arm zings through her with surprising heat. Alarming heat.
“Oh, my goodness,” she whispers.
Cupid jerks away and stares at his arm as if it betrayed him.
“Ridiculous,” he says, and then it happens.
He gives a choked-off exclamation and flaps his arm, as if in pain, but she can’t pay him the attention a nurse should right now. She can only feel what’s happening on her own arm.
Robin gasps at the sensation she’s been waiting for her whole life, the sensation she never actually expected to feel.
The letters appear one by one on her forearm in an unfamiliar, messy scrawl.
As a child, she imagined those letters might itch and burn, might feel foreign on the skin, but they don’t.
They’re a caress instead, a tender stroke of her flesh. They’re as ridiculously beautiful as him, each one a rainbow of jewel tones frosted like sea glass.
Ridiculous. It’s a lamentable soul mark, to be sure, but it’s hers.
When she looks up, his gray eyes are wide, his cheeks flushed a vivid pink.
He’s her soulmate. Her soulmate.
It’s a shame he’s such a pain in the ass.
EPILOGUE
VIKA ANDRICH GLANCED AT HER NOTES FOR THE NEXT question, and Lauren braced herself.
“Tell me about the experience of filming with Carah Brown, Alex.” The blogger leaned toward the couch where Alex and Lauren were seated thigh to thigh. “You two had a few key scenes together in Gods of the Gates, but now you’re on the road in each other’s company for weeks at a time. How has that been?”
Lauren’s heart rate slowed once more.