He heard the single, whispered word. But Uriel also heard the anguish and pain hidden behind it. Sydney was letting him go, but she didn’t want him to. He wanted to go as well. “No,” he heard himself say. “Let the others handle this one.” His place at the moment was there, beside Sydney. A major breakthrough had just been made, and he could still feel the euphoria of being reconnected to his bear. It was strange after going several weeks without hearing from it, that now all of a sudden it was ready to talk again. Love can be powerful like that. The thought bounced around in his mind as he rolled his tongue over the word and the idea. Love. He certainly was head over heels for Sydney. He didn’t doubt that for an instant, but that didn’t stop Uriel from contemplating if love was all that he felt for her. Was there more? Was she his mate? The person he would spend the rest of his life with?
