Patrick’s Soulmate (Covenant of Ascent: O’Sheerans)

Patrick Chapter 1 Current Day

Looking around the room, it was still unbelievable to me that this was my family. I watched as my sons,━Darragh, Rian, Rory, and Declan, and my daughter, Siobhan, laughed and teased their cousins, our friends, and other family members. There were my brothers━Sean and Cormac, with their wives and children. It was hard to believe forty years had passed since I took over as the head of the O’Sheeran family here in America and found my beautiful wife, Maeve.

I tightened my hold around her waist. She smiled up at me. The love she still had for me, even after forty years of marriage, shone from her eyes. I knew mine was visible for all to see, too. She’d been a miracle that I hadn’t even known I needed or wanted. A temptation that led to a wonderful, fulfilled, and love-filled life.

Back then, I was busy living the dream of power, money, women and no desire was outside my reach. I’d been high on it all and thought I had everything. Even if my mam , mom had been pushing me to ensure the family line by marrying and producing children, I’d ignored them. I had brothers who could carry on the family name. I didn’t need to have children or a wife.

As I gazed around our fortieth wedding anniversary party and thought of all that had happened since then, my mind went back to the day I met mo anamchara , my soulmate. Some might say it was luck. I know it was fate, along with some magic.