Love Life
During the course of the first book, Arkarian falls in love with Isabel, Ethan's Apprentice. She is killed while on a mission (meaning, in another's body), leaving Ethan to attempt to retrieve her soul from a middle world that leads to ultimate death. Not being her soul-mate, however, he is unable to make her hear him, and she turns around only when Arkarian calls her back. Once awake, and without recollection of the events in the transitional world, Isabel supposes that it was Ethan who saved her. Arkarian, devastated by her love for the other, confirms this. When Isabel has left, he tells Ethan that she must never know that he is her soul-mate. The resolve, fed by his belief in her feelings for Ethan, is backed by his agelessness, which precludes him from having a normal life in the mortal world.
Not long after, Isabel realizes that she is attracted to Arkarian, but the two appear unaware of one another's feelings. At one instance, Arkarian confesses to Isabel that he would die for her, but their relationship still fails to progress. It is only when Isabel breaks into the underworld to save him that he realizes that his love is reciprocated.
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