Tattooed Heart

PROLOGUE

It was said that before we were born, we were atoms wandering in the outer space. These atoms were then split into two, and the other half was our soulmate. And when we were bore into life here on Earth the names of our soulmates were tattooed on our wrists.

Mine's name was Eun.

Living in this kind of world where we knew who our soulmates were would turn out to be easy. We would just go and find a person with the name that was tattooed on your wrist, but actually if you think of it, it wasn't. That person might be living in the other side of the world, or maybe that person might not be living yet or in the brink of dying already.

It would actually be painful when you realized that your soulmate was actually dead already, but how would you know?

There could be thousands of Eun walking or sleeping in this world, and one of them was mine to find. They said that once our soulmate told us their name, and they were our real soulmate, their name would fade on our wrist.

I hoped she was looking for me, too.

***

My name was not Isaac Riggs, I just made a pseudonym, a nom de plume, to hide my identity because I did not want the crowd to know who was behind the author of the books they were reading right now. I was a book author who had been hiding for five years behind the camera because I did not want people to know the real me or even see who I really am.

I wanted them to know me because they adore what I was writing, not because they liked how I look. That was why hiding under this pen name was a good thing. Although I attended book signings, but they all just had to give me the copies of their books and I would sign it without them seeing me. I was not that bad kind of an author to deprive these people of my signature.

Although hiding my identity had a deeper reason. I just knew by now that I could never tell you yet why. Maybe because telling this would give me trouble. Maybe telling you was a flaw and would give me affliction. I did not want to commit such mistake.

I just wanted you to know that my soulmate right now was hiding hers too.