Dead Flowers

Jamie had felt a horrible sensation when passing Eliza Stephens one morning. The feeling strikes her even worse when Eliza accidently brushes his shoulder against her.
It's not the warm, fuzzy kind of feeling you'd get when meeting your mate.
But Jamie doesn't know this; all she knows, is to stay away from Eliza to get away from that unmistakably terrible gut feeling.
But Eliza has a different plan.
"She's my mate." He had said, "I'm not going to let her get off the hook, especially now that she's on it."