Chapter 9

(Knox's POV):I finally have enough focus to block Quest and his dirty thought of our mate. I stared up at my mate. Sensing my stare she glances at me to make sure and she blushes. Then one thought crossed my mind.

'Only Quest and I can make her feel like this, no other guy can get this response from her! She's all ours, and no one can do a thing about it. And if anyone does try to come between us, I'm gonna rip their heads off.' And at that I grinned.

As I was evilly scheming with Quest, I hadn't noticed that Lexia and a certain Tox were giving me loving glances. We were snapped out of our scheming when we felt sparks fly on our back. My head whipped in Lexia's direction. She sat cross legged on the bed. Her black leggings were covered in fur, her white dress shirt was tucked into her pants. Leaving all her curves on display. She seemed to jump back at our quick reaction, so when she stopped Quest filled my head with sad whimpers. And I needed her to touch me or else I'd end up shifting to smother her in human form, and let's just say that would be beyond strange/weird.

'You know what, who cares. Forget my dignity and status! It's not like my pack was here to see this!'

I made my decision. Crawling to Lexia on my stomach took a lot of work. And what I did next would have had my pack on their backs laughing their asses off. I whined, putting my head deeper in her lap. Using my snout, I kept nuzzling her. She looked shocked, then I remembered something. She knows I'm a shifter and not some random animal! Shoot. This is beyond embarrassing, she also knows I'm an Alpha. All these add up to one thing; she knows the Supernatural community. Wait, does that mean she's supernatural herself? I mean, I'll love her anyways no matter what she is. She's my soulmate, if she is I wonder what she is, or if she's not. I wonder what her relationships to it are and how she knows. I began to process many questions about her and different theories. Quest is snapping and taking control. And what he does next makes me want to put my head in my human hands and groan in embarrassment.

Quest is fully in control over my body. Which means my eyes are probably pitch black with gold iris's. Instead of their usual Stormy color with gold rings. And yet, my mate has no problem meeting him. It would make sense if she knew this, she is involved with the Supernatural Community. So with Quest in full control over my body, he has stood up on my mates bed and stretched himself comfortably on top of our mate, she giggles. Oh, that giggle! I could listen to it all day.

'Me too!' Quest says.

As her giggling starts to quiet down, she brings her hands to work magic on my fur. I relaxed and enjoyed her touch because if I were in human form right now. I'd make an even more embarrassment out of myself. Not only had Quest and I relaxed but so did she. Lexia began to lightly hum a tune quite familiar. But I couldn't put a name to it. Suddenly she went quiet and Quest was a purring machine, but neither of us seemed to mind. Guess we were too busy enjoying each other's company. She was about to hit my favorite spot to be pet, when she suddenly stopped. Causing me to turn around and look at her in confusion.

"I know you have a voice, why not put it to good use. Alpha!" She chuckled with respect.

Quest growled at her formality, I didn't like it either, so I corrected her.

'It's Knox. Beautiful' I spoke telepathically, like I do with my pack.

'Smooth' Quest compliments.

"Hmmm, you're quite the flirt!'' She stated.

'Only for you' I give her my signature wolfy grin.

"Well you already know my name, so why don't we start with how you got to where I found you." She's straight to the point.

'A group of hunters were chasing me, I tried to get away but I wasn't watching where I was going and I got hit. The driver didn't even stop and check, just continued driving. But then you pulled over and here's your knight in shining armor.'

"You mean knight with a black pelt?" She joked.

We laughed and finally I asked the question I've been wanting to ask her.

'How are you a human? You have so much knowledge about our world? If the council found out, you'd be hunted down and killed instantly!' I didn't wanna say the last part but I pushed myself too.

"I used to be a vampire. But then I was being stalked, so the school sent me away. And well, here I am! But when I left the school they stripped me of my vampirism. But now I have Tala!' She finished with a smile.

'Tala?' I asked her.

Her eyes widened, and a grin replaced her sad expression.

"Tala is my inner Tox!" She tells me.

There's that word again, Tox. What is it? Looks like I'm gonna have to find out on my own.The next question I've been wanting to ask is blurted out, before I could stop it.

'Do you know about mates?' I immediately start getting snapped at by Quest.

She immediately stills, and she begins to study us. I squirm under her gaze, and she seems to notice because she looks away. Me and Quest start to think the worse, until her voice reassures us.

"I can practically see the gears shifting in your head!" She chuckles.

"And yes, I know a little about mates." She cleared her throat.

'How much?' I asked her.

She shrugged. "Guess you'll have to teach me what I don't know." She purred in my ear.

I felt Quest yipping and jumping in my head, 'Mate's close, Mate's flirting with us!' He barked out love sick laughter.

'Hey, you're just as love sick as I am. You feel what I feel, and I feel what you feel, which means-' I cut him off before he could say it.

'Love sick puppies, yeah I know!' I answered.

'No, I was gonna say whipped. We are whipped and wrapped around this girl's finger. Not that I have a problem with that.' He muttered that last part.

'How much do you know about were's?' I ask her.

" It depends on the species of were, werewolves, werecats, and werefox's are pretty well known, But other shifters are harder to grab information from." She says.

'Cool.' Is all I say.

'C'mon Knox, ask her before I do.' Quest pushes.

'No, not yet. Yeesh Quest, we only just met her!' I tried not to push.

'Your point?' He fired back.

'My point is that we should give our mate some space-' He cut me off.

'Do you smell that?' Quest asked me .

'Smell wha-' That's when I smelt it.

This smell was coming from my mate, did her scent change? How, she's human. It was the most mouth watering scent ever. She smelled like honey and oranges. Just seconds ago she didn't smell anything, not even human. Because humans all have the same scent. But my mate smelt like nothing seconds ago. I thought it was strange that she had no scent, and all of a sudden it was released, being stripped of vampirism. Wait, plenty of things don't add up here. Mystery scent, being involved in the Supernatural community, her Supernatural knowledge, this whole situation wasn't right. And Quest agreed, but had gone silent in the back of my mind. Then some of it clicked. She's been masking her scent. Well that narrows it down somewhat.

I cannot narrow down on her involvement with us. Other than her being of supernatural species. And her knowledge doesn't narrow it down either. Her sapphire eyes can switch to an orange-gold. Nothing rings a bell with that detail. What was that animal she was reading about? Wasn't it the same species that she turned out to be?

Tig . . . No. . .Tix . . . No . . . wasn't it Tox?

'Zev?' I linked my Beta.

'Alpha! Are you coming back soon?' He asked.

"Not yet, and I found out my mate's a Tox, but I have no knowledge on that species. Can you get anything about that race?' I asked.

'Should I get the team on the line?' He asked.

I paused thinking about it. After a quick discussion with my wolf, we both agreed. Once the team was included in the link I was greeted with other greetings and concerned members. But it was nothing compared to what my sister had to say!

'Knox Arlo Lupin. Where the heck on this green Earth are you? If you're playing pranks right now you are so dead when I see you.' She roared in the link, I could feel everyone else flinch.

'I'm uhh. I actually don't know where I am-' I didn't get to finish.

"WHAT!' She screams.

'I-' Once again I'm cut off.

'We need to send trackers to find him.' My Gamma Lance says.

'I'd tell them, before they do something stupid.' Zev muttered lower than the raging group.

'I found my mate!' I say normally.

All the bickering comes to a halt and I hear three different shocked responses. And then the link goes silent.

'Details now.' My sister Xena snarled through the silent link.

'I got hit by a car and she drove by and patched me up.' I summarized.

I could feel her anger through the link; so before anything else happened I filled in what they needed to know.