3. Solon

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SOLON

Solon was sure he was getting close. In the last dream he had shared with his future mate, he had gotten many more clues as to her whereabouts.

The strange and frustrating thing was that he couldn't actually see where she was. In fact, he couldn't see anything but colored blurs when he Dream-Shared with her.

But he could hear voices and noises and he could smell scents. Her scent especially intrigued him—it was warm and sweet and devastatingly feminine. But there were often other scents around her—floral scents, some of them quite strong. Solon didn't mind the other smells, but it was the scent of his fated mate that he focused on.

He also liked the sound of her voice—it was soft and low for a female's. It had a soothing cadence, especially when she was talking to the people he assumed must be her customers. But who those customers might be, he didn't know because they all appeared like colored blobs.

But then, just the night before, he'd had a breakthrough. The dream he was sharing with her just happened to include a phone call. And when she'd picked up the phone, he'd heard her say,

"Rose's Roses Florist Shop, roses that smell as beautiful as they look are our specialty. This is Abbey speaking, how can I help you?"

After months of hunting for her, it felt like a breakthrough! He finally knew his future mate's name and where to find her.

Solon was hoping to meet her today…and maybe find out why the dreams he had shared with her were so strange. He had never heard of a Kindred or Monstrum warrior Dream-Sharing with a female he couldn't see before. In fact, he didn't even know what his future mate looked like.

He wondered if she could see him—if she was dreaming of him as he was dreaming of her. If so, he hoped his appearance didn't startle or frighten her.

Because the Monstrum came from a different universe, they looked quite different from the Kindred warriors the human women were already used to. And by some twist of fate, many of them looked like animals that were native to Earth.

Solon was a Chimera Monstrum—meaning he has physical traits of several different kinds of his people. His basic appearance was that of a Felinus Monstrum—to a human he would appear to be a large, muscular man with leonine features—a broad, flat nose, a split upper lip, and deep golden eyes. He was covered in a thin golden pelt and his hair was a mane of dark gold around his head.

But because he was a Chimera, those weren't his only features. He also had a pair of twisting horns growing from his temples which made him even more beast-like. Along with the horns came a hidden trait—he had the ability to feel the emotions of others. Only while he was touching them though and only people he was attuned to. Thank goodness he couldn't feel the emotions of everyone around him—it would have been much too distracting, especially in battle.

The Chimera Monstrum called this ability Feeling and it was one of the main ways they communicated within their family units—just by touching each other and sending emotions back and forth.

Solon couldn't wait to become attuned to his new mate and Feel her, even though he didn't know what she looked like. Her appearance didn't matter to him. He knew what she smelled and sounded like, at least in his dreams—that was enough.

Because of their acute senses, both the Kindred and the Monstrum were as much attracted to a female for her scent as her appearance. In fact, the Kindred version of porn wasn't visual at all—it was swatches of fabric that females had worn while they were aroused collected into "scent books." So no matter how his fated mate looked, Solon knew she was the only one for him.

And now he finally knew how to find her.

"Today, my mate," he murmured to himself. "Today I'll finally meet you and bring you home to the Mother Ship for our Claiming Period."

He couldn't wait to hold her in his arms.