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“On whether or not you like stairs.”
I walked ahead of him, taking the stairs at a brisk pace. I was hurt and furious. I knew we both felt the connection when we touched, and I wanted it to last longer, to feel him more, but his reaction, avoiding any further contact, was not at all what I expected.
“So how many rooms are there?”
“Ten rooms. Three rooms per floor except for the top floor. The Moikeha suite takes up the entire fourth floor.”
“And you live here with your parents?”
“My room is on the ground floor. My mom and dad are divorced. Mom took off with another man, dad lives in a small cottage next to the house.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know,” Miles said.
I shrugged. “No biggie. I heard it’s pretty common on the Mainland.”
“You could say that. I’m divorced too.”
The words hit me with the force of a bomb, and I staggered to a stop halfway up the fourth floor. “You, you were married?”
“Yes,” Miles said, a puzzled look on his face. “But we got divorced two years ago.”
I couldn’t breathe. The thought of Miles being married to another woman had the effect of a thousand daggers stabbing my heart. Marriage was a sacred vow, and I had always imagined my soulmate and I sharing this momentous occasion together, for the first time.
“Taylor?”
Why was everything turning out so wrong? Meeting my soulmate was supposed to be a perfect love at first sight moment. He was supposed to be perfect. I was supposed to be his first real love. He wasn’t supposed to be married. It just wasn’t right. What was going on?
“Taylor?”
Maybe it was a lie. Maybe lola Nora really was nothing but a crazy old woman, and I was the dumb, gullible girl who believed her. Maybe there was no such thing as a soulmate.
My world spun. I stared at the handsome face of a stranger I still felt a deep connection to, but that must also be a lie, nothing more than a girl’s stupid infatuation. The face blurred, the staircase darkened, and I felt myself falling backwards into a black void.
