Love at Second Sight Read Free

but you will.’ Me and a thousand others , I thought although I couldn’t help but listen and
stare. Betty was putting on a good act. You can find love, Jo. The reason you have not so far is because you have it imprinted in your unconscious that love is painful and that is why you have not
found your soulmate. In this lifetime, you must break the pattern.’
    Whoa , I thought. That’s way heavy. She’s right about me thinking love is painful but imprinted in my unconscious? I did not like what I was hearing. I glanced
back at the exit flap. Half of me wanted to run, but the other half was intrigued. I decided to stay. At the very least I could have a good laugh about it later with Effy and Tash.
    ‘I see a boy – you once knew him and he was your soulmate,’ Betty continued. She spoke fast, still in the deeper voice. ‘It was a great love. Powerful. He was your true
love in a previous life. We have all had many lives but this love was in your last life. You were a governess . . . your name was Henrietta Gleeson. You were working in a London doctor’s
house at the end of the nineteenth century. This doctor had children. Two. A young boy who you were employed to care for, and an older one . . .’ She lifted her head slightly to the right as
if she was listening to someone. ‘Howard. His name was Howard. A boy of nineteen. He was your soulmate and yet . . .’ She stopped, as though listening once again. ‘Something
happened to keep you apart.’
    Typical , I thought. Bad luck in this lifetime and bad luck back then too. Cool story , though. I wonder how many other people she’s spun it to.
    Betty opened her eyes and looked directly at me. As if she was looking right into me. ‘Jo. This is important. As you are back in this lifetime, so is he. Like you, he has travelled
far through time to be here. In this life, you must find him. He is your soulmate. You are meant to be together. You must find him if you are ever to be happy in love.’
    I felt a shiver go up my spine, but I wasn’t going to let her get to me. ‘Was he by any chance tall, dark and handsome?’
    Betty continued to look directly at me. ‘You may scoff at what you hear, many do. I simply tell what I see. It is always your choice to make of it what you will but this boy from
your past, he is your destiny. You can believe me and try to find him or dismiss what I say and drift from one meaningless love affair to another, never finding the true contentment that
your soul could know with him. You must choose.’
    Whoa. You’re beginning to freak me out , I thought, then we both jumped as someone entered the tent to our right. It was a blonde lady in her twenties. ‘Are you still doing
readings?’ she asked Betty.
    ‘Have you any more questions, Jo?’ Betty asked me, returning to her normal voice.
    I shook my head. I felt light-headed. ‘Um. No, thanks. I’m fine.’ I got up and Betty beckoned the lady to take my place. Another sucker , I thought. I bet she even
tells her the same story.

Chapter Three
    ‘Oh my God, that is just so romantic,’ said Tash after I’d filled her and Effy in on the Howard and Henrietta story.
    ‘Did she say what kept them apart?’ asked Effy.
    I shook my head. ‘Maybe he discovered he was gay.’
    Effy ignored my comment. ‘But didn’t you ask her how you’d recognise him this time?’ she asked as we made our way over to the stage area. Minted were due to play at three
o’clock and I wasn’t going to miss that. A chance to stare at Finn O’Brady without seeming weird.
    ‘No I didn’t, Effy, because Betty made it up.’
    ‘He could be anywhere,’ Tash mused. ‘He might not even be in England. What if he’s American or something?’
    ‘Effy. Tash. There is no he. There’s no-one to find. You don’t actually believe it? She probably tells everyone the same story Who did she say you’d been in your
past life? Cleopatra?’
    Effy shook her head. ‘She didn’t mention past lives at