Autumn and Connie both look at him as if he has two heads.

“Do you mean like a soulmate?” Connie asks confused.

Roy thinks about it for a minute before answering. “You could put it that way. It’s a bit more than a soulmate though. Being mated to a shifter is a very serious thing, at least it is for the shifter. I’ve heard rumors that if some shifters can’t be with their mate they actually die. I don’t know if this is true, not enough shifters exist ...