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plan worked. I'm going to need someone to restrain me soon from going back for her." His body buzzed. He'd left his soul mate, the woman he'd been created to protect, alone in an evil scented room to find her way back to them. There was no chance of her getting out of the caves and the worst she would do was wander around in circles until she drained herself but it didn't negate the need to get to her, and fast.
    Leonardo looked at Charma. "Nice job with ordering me out of the room and Jase are you sure you went to medical school and not acting classes?"
    "I felt like an idiot." Dr. Jason Randall pulled his soul mate, Charma, closer to him.
    Drew envied them their ease. When they got through this and restored Marina, Drew and Marina would still not have the connection of the other soul mates' in the room. Love wasn't possible, not for him. Even if he wanted to feel Marina's soul reach for his more than anything in the universe.
    He wouldn't infect her with what the demon bestowed upon him.
    "Marina never could tolerate us arguing when we were children," Charma said. "Jason felt her blood pressure rise. Our behavior triggered a reaction. Drew left her surrounded by dark magic. Something has to happen deep inside of her to bring her back to us."
    Drew looked around the room. All the expectant faces wanting him to be optimistic. Leonardo, the power enhancer and their leader, whom Drew respected despite his role playing earlier, wanted Marina back to bounce ideas off her. They'd been together since childhood and relied on each other as a brother and sister might. Christophe, the Frenchman who could move through space, his soul mate Ruby, able to call any object to her she wished, and Christophe's brother Colin. He could make himself invisible.
    They all had other powers, too. A main function and secondary ones. No Outsider could call themselves solid until he controlled all of the magic deep inside of himself.
    Drew knew this better than anyone. At last count, he had fifty separate abilities. A small piece of everyone else's stronger doses. The power collector.
    He turned to stare at Gabriel and Loraine. She shapeshifted into whatever animal she chose, and Gabriel could fly if he wished, sometimes he could launch others over vast spaces. Drew could make himself a wolf and nothing else. He couldn't fly. But he could move himself when he needed to.
    Eden, their prophet—she had seen Marina in a vision days earlier, restored and working for them again. She had been the reason this plan had been finally put into motion. Her soul mate, Samuel, who could alter his appearance, offered to take Drew's place in the room if he couldn't keep it together with his there-in-body-but-not-spirit soul mate. Samuel saw for the blind Eden, any present vision she had came through his eyes. Drew had declined. He could have visions, small ones, and he'd yet to see Marina at all.
    He'd expected the healers, Charma and Jason, to refuse to lie. Deception went against their very natures. Yet, they'd agreed. Charma loved Marina as a sister. Everyone needed her back.
    "You did well, Drew." Kal caught Drew's attention and he turned to regard the strongest warrior in their midst. He could call lightening, harness electricity, and speak with the moon. The moon speaking wasn't part of Drew's repertoire. Neither were Kal's soul mate's abilities. Isabelle could move through time and borrow powers without injuring the others in the process.
    And not one of them—not even all of them combined—were as powerful as Drew's soul mate, Marina. There was simply no way they'd beat the demon and save the universe without her at full power. Plus, the whole bit about the prophecy stating all eighteen mated souls had to be together to defeat demon boy in the first place loomed before them.
    Drew missed Marina like a constant ache. She was always there in front of him and yet he couldn't feel her at all.
    Sebastian had blasted them with powerful magic in the form of a fire.