I had never loved any other man the way I had loved Orion. Not even Travis. I was never completely in love with Travis like I had been with Orion. I was only twenty when Orion left, still just a kid, but we were soulmates.
More than that, I was his fated mate. When Orion left, my heart had broken in a way I never thought possible. If Kael had not come along a few months later to give me a reason to live, who knows what might have happened.
My phone rang around the time we were finished eating. Kael was talking with Aria and Liz, whom he had not seen in many years. I went into the other room to answer the call.
"Ma’am? This is Tammy. We talked earlier?"
The woman from the water company. "Yes, is my water turned on yet?"
"I wanted to let you know our man has everything moving. He i
