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surprised to see his brother.
    “She’s the one,” Rylan stated as he followed Gabe into his room.
    “Isn’t that for me to decide?”
    Gabe took a seat on one end of the couch and his brother took up the other half.
    He looked at Rylan; they were twins down to the minute detail. Even now, after being apart for a while, their hair was the same length in the same style. Someone looking at them might come to the erroneous conclusion that they were interchangeable.
    In this case, the package didn’t hint at what was inside. They were different long before Rylan was captured by a Sudir named Xolon. Their mother had known. She saw them and always knew them apart even when they were babies. It was one of the fondest and earliest memories he had. His mother walking into a room after he and Rylan had a tussle, she had walked over to him and picked him up saying his name and kissing him on his head before she walked over to Rylan and did the same.
    No matter how they tried they couldn’t fool her. Now there was another woman who saw them differently. First Aviana and now Taya, but did that mean she was his soul-bond. Just because a woman didn’t get you confused with your brother was no reason to run to the trials to see if you were compatible.
    There was that kiss. He didn’t know if that was a negative or a positive. It was sweet and he felt it through his body, but it wasn’t explosive. Wasn’t he supposed to see fireworks?
    “Only you can decide what’s right for you, Gabe. Just don’t forget being a twin and being able to talk to each other goes both ways. I feel what’s inside of you. The hunger and the dark yawning chasm that seems to grow bigger. I feel it in your soul and I know you need to find your soul-bond before you slip away.”
    “How can I slip away with you beside me to pester me?”
    “What’s a brother for?” Rylan chuckled and rubbed his shoulders against the back of the couch.
    “Everything okay with you and Aviana?”
    “Yeah, it’s fine. Mckayla hasn’t really been sleeping. She wakes up in the middle of the night crying. Then we either put her in bed with us or Avi ends up going into her room to sleep.”
    “That’s not good. You should pay attention to her dreams.”
    “I pay attention to them, so does her mother, and that’s why I’m sitting on your couch instead of trying to steal time with my soul-bonded.”
    “She’s dreaming of me?”
    “Yes. She’s dreaming that something bad is going to happen to her Uncle Gabe.”
    Gabe dropped his head allowing his chin to relax on his chest while he thought. Mckayla was a powerful little girl who would become more powerful as she grew. She was also the Umor Princess, heir to the kingdom built on Earth. If she was dreaming about him, he needed to pay more attention to what was happening around him.
    “I’ll be careful. I don’t have a death wish or a desire to be captured by a Sudir.” He gave a small shake at the thought.
    “You need to do more than that and you know it. You need your soul-bonded.”
    “It’s not that easy, Rylan and you know it. If it wasn’t easy for you, why would you think it would be easy for me?”
    “You didn’t live through that hell, Gabe! It should be easier.”
    “Your right, Rylan, I lived through a different hell. One that started with guilt that I hadn’t been there for you. It tore me up on the inside but it didn’t stop there. Did you really think you were so advanced you could cut me off from all you experienced? No, I was there.
    “When you were violated I was there. I felt everything and when you did manage to cut me off, I guarantee you thoughts of what was happening to you were just as destructive as being there. Do you know how many days I found myself on my hands and knees bent over holding my stomach after losing everything I ate that day?
    “Do you know why I was rail thin when we finally found you? I stopped eating. I couldn’t take rejecting food anymore so I simply stopped.