Burn My Soul Part 1 by Holly Newhouse

her address in the morning. Have a good night.
    I don't understand the exchanges going on around me. I'm too exhausted to care either as I snuggle into his warm embrace. I'm just content to be held by someone who genuinely cares about me for once. It's a feeling I've not had since my parents died.
    The next thing I know, I feel lighter and free once we're outside. Senefru insists on carrying me all the way to his car, a sleek red BMW.
    "There is something I must mention Jinny. When we're around others of my kind, I need you to please call me Franklin. No one knows me by my human name of Senefru and I'd like to keep it that way for simplicity sake."
    "I understand, I'm so sorry, Sen....I mean, Franklin. I feel like I've known you for years, in my dreams. I've only known you as Senefru in them, I'm sorry."
    "Really? For years? How long exactly?" He asks softly gently setting me down in the leather clad passenger seat of his car. I hadn't even noticed Xavier or the crowd still waiting to get in and suddenly feel awful.
    "I....um, I first started dreaming about you at ancient places I've never been to when I turned fifteen. Before she died, my mom sat me down and explained my abilities would develop around that age. She further said my soul would begin to dream about and seek out it's destined mate. It's one of the last things she ever said to me. Although, at eight years old, I never really understood her words so she left them in a letter to me."
    "She's....no longer alive?" He asks so quietly, I have to strain to hear him as we drive away.
    "No. I lost both my parents the same night in a car accident. Later it was determined someone attached a bomb to the gas tank. Their bodies when I saw them, were burned beyond recognition." I softly explain just above a whisper.
    The images of that time in my life come to mind unwanted and unbidden once again and the tears fall in a torrent. It has been so long but, in my heart and mind, they died only yesterday, the pain still as real as it was back then.
    "I'm so sorry," I sob. "I'm not usually so emotional. I feel awful, I didn't even say goodbye to Xavier and thank him for being so kind to me when I got here or to Abdiel and the other kind demons in the club. I'm such an awful person." I sob even harder.
    "Sweetheart, Xavier knew you were distraught and wished only for you to feel better. You made quite the impression with him and with much of my staff. They all adore you and are grateful for your kindness to them. Many of them have never had an ounce of kindness directed at them in many centuries.
    "Is it because they are real demons who just look like humans to those who don't know any better?"
    "Ah, so that's what scared you so badly when you first arrived. You somehow see beneath the glamour they wear. I heard about it. That's....very rare."
    "It's apparently one of the gifts my mama told me about. She said I would only develop one or two but I have at least five that I know of and it terrifies me." My eyes focus on my shoes. I'm afraid he'll think me some kind of freak as so many before have when faced with my strangeness.
    As if he can read my mind, he says, "Sweetheart, I'm your mate and you're mine. I know this for a fact. I will never judge you. I only want to heal the pain I can feel deep down inside of you where you try to hide it. I feel it as my own and it kills me."
    He reaches out for my hand and interlocks his fingers with mine as we drive through the moonlit night.
     
     

Chapter 6
     
    IF SATAN KNOWS she's been reborn, then he'll stop at nothing to take her away from me again, damage her again! Hellfire and Damnation! I need to make Damien understand just how serious this really is! It's going to get very bad for all of us!
    I have to see how much Jinny remembers of our past lives together. Dammit! I wanted to give her all the time in the world to discover them on her own. But, she may already know quite a bit if she's been dreaming about us for six years