34. How Did He Know

34. How Did He Know
Sol Pov  
On the porch, I grabbed the clothes I’d taken off to shift and run in the woods with Cassius. It was late in the morning, almost noon. I knew my meeting with the lawyers was today, but I was so exhausted having stayed up all night, then gone on a hunt this morning with my mate. It was weird. I felt extremely close to him, but at the same time I didn’t trust him. We didn’t really know each other well. My mom said spending the night out was to learn about one another, but I learned practically nothing about Cassius. 

Other than he was a good hunter and couldn’t hunt ducks as well as I could, but really who could? I was so stressed about what Quientin was going to say, and now Kimi too. They had both been adamant that I shouldn’t get too close to him until we knew what’s going on. I was still concerned that he was using whatever it was that changed his scent when he was in human form. Whatever it was I wanted him to stop it I hated it. 

But we hadn't talked about that last night, we really didn’t talk about anything. All we did was stare at each other and rut. I walked into the cabin and both Kimi and Quientin stuck their heads out and looked at me from the kitchen Casius was trailing behind. Quientin looked extremely serious as he stared at me and then glanced back at my mate then to Kimi. I addressed my cousin “We're going in soon, Kimi is staying.” I barked. 

I hated speaking to them like this, but I didn't want to hear what they had to say on the matter, and we did have to go meet the lawyer. I had no clue what it was about I just know that my father had left certain instructions for him if he hadn't heard from him and now that was coming to fruition. I wondered if it had to be my inheritance or if it was something else or a combination maybe a note that would be nice. Some kind of indication of what to do. 

A little voice in the back of my mind was telling me that I should already know what to do I was bred and born to be an alpha, I didn't feel like that I just felt like girl who liked the outdoors and was now responsible for the weight of four people's lives. Cassius was behind me, and he wanted to say something, but I didn't have time to talk, and I shut my door in his face. I knew I was being a bitch.  

But he hadn't told me much about what he knew of his sister or witches or anything like that and I couldn't deal with that right now. I couldn't deal with anything except this meeting figuring out what it was about making a solution and then maybe working my relationship which wasn't even that? I felt horrible about closing my door on him. 

But he seemed to take it in strife because he opened the door a moment, later and walked in shutting it behind him. I waited for the panic to come someone invading my den. But nothing happened probably because he was my mate, and I liked it? Maybe it was that he had no scent and left no traces in my room either way it did not set me of, surprising me. “You can't just shut me out now Sol, if you didn’t notice all last night and most of this morning, we completed the bond, so I can stay in here now. I’m sure you want to shower?”  

The audacity rolled off him but the way he said shower with that devilish smirk told me I would be getting more dirty than clean with him in there. No doubt he would probably join in that too. I shut him out, but it was only because he never clarified anything, or was it me that never clarified anything, regardless nothing had been clarified.  “Are you part of our pack then? Do you claim me as your alpha and mate?? Are you willing to fall in line and follow tradition” I paused for a long moment and then finally added what really bothered me most about him “are you going to remove whatever magic is blocking your sent for me in human form?”  

That devilish smirk that he had showed on his face. “you’re my mate yes, I can accept that. As for you being my alpha, I don’t really see why I would need to join your pack. I’m on the pack link sweetheart.” I instantly frowned “Then get out of my den.” he just shook his head slowly and then said. “ I do recall hearing that your mother didn’t join your father‘s pack right away in the beginning in fact, even when she did, she was allowed to keep her connection and not renounce her old one from the north so I find it rather peculiar that you would ask that of me?” my face fell.. how did he know about my pack history? What else did he know? 

I stood there, not knowing what to say. But he added “as for my sister’s magic blocking my sent in human form. If it means that much to you, I’ll compromise and let it wear off. It should take a few days, and I won’t drink any more of the vials I have.” I narrowed my eyes at him, then give a quick nod. We would need to discuss how he knew about my history and what else did he knew?  

There’s was an internal battle going on in my head whether I should let him stay in my room. It would be dangerous if he did start staying in here once he got a scent and I started to blend if anyone else came in here and it would become a territory issue it almost killed my mother when someone went into her den, and I was not going to be in that situation. “Don’t worry, sweetheart. I know the rules of a den. No one’s going to come in here. After all there’s only four of us in this house and the other two know not to come in here now.”  

I stood there struck. How did he know all this? He was not someone I had ever seen my mother teach.? And I thought back to the white hair on his underside of his wolf. Could he be one of the few northerners who mixed with the southerners who stayed in the north? I had no idea. I also had no knowledge where he had come from other than his sister was a witch. I needed to know this information to know if he was an enemy in my house.

“You should probably get ready. You told your cousin and your friend that you were leaving soon.” He spoke. “ Fine we can build a den in here, later I want an explanation for how you know what you know and exactly what you do know and where you come from.” and with that I walked to the bathroom, slamming the bathroom door behind me and locking it so he would not join me in the shower.