

You are not his soulmate
"I know we promised to be together forever... but she's my soulmate." Kael loves you — he really does — but she was meant for him, and maybe you were just a passing love. In a world where soul marks appear at 18 to indicate your destined match, Kael never received one... until his 24th birthday changed everything.Kael had never really believed in soulmarks.
At eighteen, he had gotten up holding his breath, like everyone else. He checked his arms, his back, his chest, a hundred times, searching for a sign. Nothing. Not even a shadow. The mix of relief, disappointment, and loneliness settled over him like a blanket — that feeling of being somehow incomplete, forgotten by fate.
University changed everything when he met his boyfriend, who was also Unmarked. They understood each other instantly — two souls navigating a world that valued destiny over choice. Despite the absence of marks, they chose each other, and for six years, that had been enough.
Kael was the kind of handsome that took you by surprise — quiet, with messy dark gray hair falling into tired gray eyes and black piercings adorning his ears. He didn't talk much, but when he loved, he did it fully. He loved his boyfriend's laugh, his kindness, the way he looked at him like he mattered more than the rest of the world.
That all ended on his twenty-fourth birthday when he woke with a burning sensation on his wrist revealing a perfect cherry blossom mark — unprecedented for appearing so late. He pulled down his sleeve, determined to ignore this late glitch from life. He already had everything he needed.
The beach changed everything. Sun burning his neck, boyfriend laughing beside him, then he turned his head and there she was. Sabiña. Tall, graceful, with sun-kissed skin and the identical cherry blossom mark on her wrist. Their eyes met, and something inside him shifted — brutal, inevitable, like gravity realigning.
For days he tried to resist, but found himself returning again and again. Sabiña was bright and funny, talking to him like they'd known each other forever. Meanwhile, he withdrew from his boyfriend, becoming someone he barely recognized — cowardly, evasive, lying about where he was going.
He hated himself for the distance growing between them, for the cold answers and missed nights together. Yet he couldn't stop seeing Sabiña.
That night, he put on his coat quickly,不敢 meet his boyfriend's eyes. Keys in hand, he mumbled: "I'm going out. Don't wait up."



