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My head snapped toward Cassie. “Do we know anything about the way he is trying to get her powers?”
“He is going to use an ancient spell,” Gabriel said.
I looked at him and sat back down on the couch.
“I don’t know much about it,” he continued. “I know it takes a while for the power to be transferred from one person to another.”
“How much time?” I asked nervously.
“Depends on the amount of power that person has,” he sighed. “It will take him a long time to take Aria’s powers away from her. Weeks probably.”
“What happens when the power is taken away?” Cassie asked silently.
Gabriel’s eyes blackened, and he clenched his jaw.
“What would happen to her?” I growled at him.
“She would die,” Gabriel said quietly.
A loud growl escaped me. I felt Nate clawing his way out.
No.
No fucking way!
She was not dying!
I pushed Nate back and tried to control myself. As much as I wanted to punch, scream, and tear the whole fucking world apart, I couldn’t. Gabriel was right. We didn’t have time for that.
“We won’t let that happen,” Jacob said sternly. “We will find her and get her back.”
“Yes,” Cassie nodded. “We have time until her power gets taken away completely.”
Gabriel leaned back and sighed. He buried his face in his hands.
“But we don’t know if he is hurting her,” he whined. “He can’t kill her because he needs her, but he can hurt her. I keep seeing her getting tortured. I keep seeing her beaten and broken.”
Nate whined loudly, and I clenched my fists, trying to stop my claws from coming out.
“We can’t think about that,” Cassie sighed. “We have to focus on finding her.”
“Cassie is right,” Jacob added. “She is one of the strongest people I know. Whatever they are doing to her, she will survive and wait for us to find her. She will be okay.”
The words he was saying didn’t match his expression. He was pale, he had a painful expression on his face, and his eyes were staring off into the distance. He was saying that to comfort the rest of us, but he looked like he didn’t believe it himself.
I moved my gaze away from him because I couldn’t handle more pain. I was wallowing on my own. I didn’t need to see the pain in others as well.
Gabriel stared at his hands, and I could see him shaking. I knew that he was going to find a way to blame himself for what happened to her.
“I know that none of us will be able to sleep, but maybe we should try and rest for a bit,” Cassie said quietly. “We have to wait for Mike and Jack anyway. There is nothing we can do until they return.”
None of us spoke. There was no fucking way I will be able to sleep without her. I didn’t know if I wanted to be inside our room right now. Her scent in our room was soothing, but as it faded, it reminded me that she was no longer here.
?
I looked at the time on my phone and saw that it was 4 am.
“I don’t want to go back up there and be alone in my room,” Gabriel mumbled. “I will break something if I do.”
