yelling at me. There's one more thing about Loraine."
Leonardo thought he heard a woman's voice saying something on the other end. He couldn't make out what she said, but she clearly wasn't happy if her tone was any indication.
"She thinks she, or maybe that is to say she believes, she can talk to her dog."
"Hold please." Leonardo took the phone from his ear.
One of two things was happening here. A crazy person had either saved Gabriel or he'd stumbled onto one of their kin. Stranger things had happened. Kal, one of the Outsiders Leonardo had grown up with, and Isabelle, Kal's soul mate who been raised thinking she was human, found each other when they collided in the woods. They'd been the first soul mate pair to reunite since Abraxas had separated all eighteen Outsiders during a botched spell.
Charma, one of the other Outsiders Leonardo had lived with during his childhood, had freed her soul mate from a mental institution where he'd been trapped in his own mind by a demon. They'd also located another Outsider at that time named, Eden, who had also been in the mental institution in New Jersey.
So it was entirely possible this Lorraine person was one of them but he wanted more information before he agreed. He needed to see Eden now .
Bellowing at the top of his lungs, since the newly discovered member of their group couldn't yet speak telepathically to him, he ran up two flights of stairs to the library where she was supposed to be training with another Outsider, Marina.
"Eden!" he screamed as he walked through the door. Both women, who had been sitting doing what looked decidedly like drinking coffee and not training, rose as he pushed through the door.
Marina spoke first. "Why are you shouting?"
He ignored Marina's remark and turned to Eden. "I need you."
She nodded. The tall woman with the golden eyes moved forward. "What can I do?"
"I need you to use your power of foresight and tell me if it's okay for Gabriel," he held up the phone to indicate Gabe was on it, "to tell this woman Loraine, who he is with, about the Outsiders."
Eden looked down at the floor. "It doesn't work like that. I have no control over what I see and what I don't see. I'm not in the driver's seat. I'm only a passenger."
Leonardo huffed. That was not what he wanted to hear. "Try. I'll help you. I'm a power enhancer."
Marina held up her hand. "If you do that you're going to bring on a vision she might not be able to get out of, and you can't guarantee it'll be about Gabriel."
He wanted to punch a wall. "Then, what would you recommend?"
"Let me take a look."
What did she mean by that? Marina was always coming up with new things she could do. She could spell cast, she could read energies, track them, use them… the list was becoming endless.
He could feel her power push against his. She wanted assistance to send her energy to Gabe's location. Damn it, couldn't she just ask and say please? Gritting his teeth against what felt like an invasion of his privacy, he joined his power to hers, making her stronger.
He put the phone to his ear. "Marina is checking her out."
"She's pretty mad at me for telling you about the dog thing. I told her you're used to odd stuff."
"You have no idea." Leonardo covered the phone with his hand so Gabriel couldn't hear what he said. Odd stuff didn't begin to describe the things Leonardo was getting 'used to'.
Marina grabbed his arm. "She's one of us."
He nodded. That's what he'd hoped.
Marina continued speaking. "And she's his ."
"She is? You can tell for sure?"
"Their energies are the same."
Removing his hand, Leonardo spoke into the phone. "She's an Outsider. Tell her." He clicked the phone shut, hanging up on Gabriel.
Marina narrowed her eyes at him as Eden stepped forward putting her hands on her hips.
Marina spoke first although he could tell Eden wanted to. "Why didn't you let him know she was his soul mate?"
"That's for them to figure out."
Eden cocked her head to the side as she studied