Chapter 9:

"She's a what?" Vivian exclaimed as she stood from her chair in the den at the Cates mansion.

"A white wolf." Though Matt responded instinctively he was also hesitant.

"Are you sure?" Ruby looked at Matt who she was sitting beside both who were across from a now standing Vivian. "I mean are you sure that the lighting was not playing a factor in the color."

"Ruby, I am a concerned father, not color blind. Yes, she is a white wolf."

Vivian sat back down in her big, brown, leather chair. She first looked at Ruby, then at Matt, and then at Sherman who had his back against the three pouring himself a drink from the bar, running her hand through her long blonde hair, "Okay…so Sherman what does this mean. I thought that only one white wolf is born every generation, now we have two."

Sherman turned to face the three confused faces that had now looked at him, "Vivian, I know a lot of myths and secrets, and there is more text that is being translated everyday, but so far I have not come across any text about two white wolves. However, I will be working on this full time to find something…anything." Sherman couldn't help but look at Matt. He knew that Matt was the most stressed about Sophia and her otherness. Matt could see that Sherman was serious and would not rest until he found something, anything. With that statement Matt just nodded in response to Sherman and Sherman knew that was a non-verbal "thank you" and nodded back.

"Well, until we figure out what this means and how it will effect the pack, I think it is in everyone's best interest to keep this between this small party of five", Vivian said as she crossed her arms on her desk as she sat back down.

Matt correcting Vivian, "six."

"What?"

"Six. You said five. Sherman, Ruby, you, me, and obviously Sophia, and of course…Luke."

Vivian sat there speechless with her mouth-hung open, "um…uh…Luke knows?"

Ruby couldn't help it when she leaned back in her chair crossing her legs, but smile. "Well, well, well, know we all now why my baby brother has had this undeniable and destined attraction to young Ms. Sophia."

Matt gave Ruby a quick smirk that quickly faded to an evil glare. Vivian could see the tension building from Matt, but knew she had to state the obvious, "Matt…um…Ruby does have a point." Matt turned to look at Vivian to see where she was going with this. "Ruby the white wolf her self, it was for told that she would mate with the strongest of her kind…a leader…a future alpha. Well, um Luke…he is the strongest of the young pack and is future alpha…and Sophia well, she is a um…white wolf."

Standing from his seat, "I am well aware of this connection that Luke and Sophia have. I am not blind you guys. I have seen it since they were pups. That does not mean I approve of it or it will happen." With that last statement, Matt turned and stormed out of then den.

Sherman taking Matt's seat, took a sip of his mixed drink, "well that went well."

"He just refuses to accept that Sophia and Luke were meant to be."

"Well Vivian, he probably wouldn't be fighting this as much if you did not dip your hand into business that was no concern of yours. All those years ago everything could have planned out the way it should have."

Giving him a sharp look, her lips curled. Looking at Ruby, "Ruby? Sophia is going to have a hard time, not only for now can she not tell anyone of her pelt, she has to deal with being the half breed, Luke chasing after her, and her trying to keep the peace between Luke and her father without bloodshed. She is going to need a female to talk to. I know she has her friends, but not one of them can talk to her of the status and what is to be expected of her as the "white wolf". Could you please talk to her, guide her, be a confident to her for a while? I think she is going to need someone to talk to her."

Ruby has been no fan of Vivian's and that has been no secret. Vivian always bad mouthing her mother, her ordering a kill or captures on Ruby, and most Vivian sleeping with her much-hated husband Tyler. With all that and more, Ruby still had to agree with Vivian. Ruby knew what Sophia was going through and unlike Ruby; Sophia had someone to help guide her with being a white wolf. Though Ruby was not complaining, she had always looked at Sophia as a little sister. Sophia had spent most of her childhood at the Cates mansion, and Luke at her house. But not only did she look at this as helping Sophia, she looked at the situation as helping Luke. Luke was her only and baby brother. After Amanda, Ruby's twin sister died during her flip, she and Luke became closer than ever. So Ruby looked as helping Luke and his mate, her future, sister in law, and Ruby knew that Luke could not have found a more perfect mate than Sophia. "Yeah sure. Listen…I better go." Getting up from her chair Ruby gave a small wave goodbye and was out the door.

"Must you bring up the past in front of everyone or anyone", Vivian said as more of a demand rather than a statement.

"Look Vivian, I know you had your reasons, for doing what you did…but it does not change the fact that its done and now we don't know what it holds for the pack", Sherman stood and took the last swallow of his drink, "so deal with it."

Turning his back he was out the door. After Sherman was out the door, Vivian slowly opened the drawer in the top front in the middle of the desk and pulled out the old cherry box with her initials on it. Opening it up she peered into it. "They can't find out" slamming the lid down.

Opening her locker, Sophia couldn't help but make a sigh of relief that is was the last period of the day. Since fourth period, Sophia had to hear and deal with the many various remarks that were being made. Some questioning how a half breed could flip, or that she looked hotter, others making the statements of how she flipped that she and Luke had slept together, and more asking what her pelt color was and where she will stand in the pack hierarchy, and even the humans questioning why she was with Luke.

Sophia's mind was so cluttered with vast statements, that her other senses were clouded. Her mind was not open enough to smell and hear Luke come up behind her and wrap his hands around her waist. Taking her earlobe in between his lips his tongue began flicking it causing a shock of arousal send down Sophia's body, "hey, babe, last period of the day it almost over."

Sophia smiling, "this will never be over." Turning around to face him, Luke just allowed her body to twist around in his arms as they were still wrapped around her. "Especially when they find out about my pelt."

"Sophia, I don't know what any of this means, but I know that nothing is going to happen to you."

Sophia loved it when he was sweet and sincere; she knew he couldn't leave without a reward. Leaning up into him she gave him a small kiss on the lips, "thanks."

Giving her quick kiss on the forehead, the warning bell rang, "hey I gotta go to PE. I'll see you after school?" His eyes perked up as if they were asking.

"I can't. I have to meet my dad at the sheriff's office."

"Already flipped and already in trouble with the law."

Pushing him off of her, "go to class."

"Next week you'll be in class with me. Just for the record, I am not excited about you finishing your human classes this week before starting your skin walker classes next week, you should drop them and forget about them", taking her hand into his he gave her a peck on the back on her hand and waving to her goodbye, "later."

Sophia turned back around to hurry and get her shoes out of locker and head to human PE. With the warning bell ringing before, this allowed the halls of Wolf Lake high to thin out and allow Sophia to recognize the voices more clearly, and more clearly she did. Still with her back turned, Sophia heard Presley, Brianna, and Cleo's voices in her head.

"Aren't you gonna say something to her?" Brianna asked Presley walking past Sophia.

"Why? Luke slept with her and called it a day." Sophia heard Presley's laughter, "I'm sorry, I mean more like an hour. Hell that little perfect princess probably did not know what to do with a guy like Luke. Luke was probably bored."

Sophia was doing everything in her power to not show her hurt even with her back turned. Then Sophia recognized Cleo's voice, "Yeah, I mean hell, Luke has been with every female skin walker, its his nature, what does she have to compare with that, she has no experience."

Hearing all three girls laughter in her head and them heading down the hall after the final class bell ring, Sophia couldn't hold back her tears anymore. Slamming her locker door shut, she turned around and leaned against it. But what Presley, Brianna, and Cleo said, Sophia couldn't help but what they said was true…not only that Sophia had no experience, but with Luke sleeping with every skin walker female…and that bothered her more than anything. I can only imagine how many girls he's slept with. With that last thought, Sophia wiped her tears and headed down the hall to PE with her shoes in one hand and what Presley, Brianna, and Cleo had said cluttering her mind.