DandeLION Season_Green Valley Shifters by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ellen Million
Published: 2019-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

The scene Damien found next door was exactly what he dreaded.

Aaron was descending the tree in his yard, eyes like saucers. “We were climbing the tree,” he sobbed. “I know we weren’t supposed to, but I’m sorry! And Trevor fell! And I won’t do it again! And what is that? Where did Trevor go??”

Another parent or grandparent would have feared a different tableau—a child with a broken leg or dislocated shoulder from a fall like that.

But Trevor’s clothing was scattered around the yard, and a disoriented, blinking lion cub was sitting underneath the tree, favoring one paw.

“Aaron-with-two-As, I am going to need you to take a deep breath and count to ten,” Damien said, dredging his memory to remember how Andrea dealt with Trevor when he got hysterical. “As slowly as you can.” He crossed the lawn and scooped Trevor carefully up with as much of his clothing as he could easily reach.

He automatically scanned the area for onlookers, and was relieved to find that Green Valley had for once decided not to provide an unwanted audience.

But the scream had not gone entirely unnoticed, and as Damien carried Trevor to the most private corner of the lawn, up next to Tawny’s fence, a young man with wild eyes came bolting out of the house. “Aaron! Are you okay? What’s going on?”

“Eight!” Aaron said, panting and pointing. “Nine! Ten!”

“Trevor,” Damien said quietly. “It’s okay now. You’re okay. This is perfectly normal, and I need you to be a little boy again now.”

He was fairly certain that despite his efforts at discretion, Aaron’s father got an eyeful of Trevor’s furry shape before he morphed back into a naked little boy.

“I was so high up!” Trevor said at once, more excited than frightened by the whole experience. “But falling was scary and there was a voice that said we ought to be something else and my wrist hurts.”

Damien breathed a sigh of relief and inspected the wrist, deciding that it was sprained at worst. “We’ll put a wrap and some ice on that,” he said firmly. “And we’ll talk about climbing trees as well.”

“Are you going to tell Dad?” Trevor asked. “Are you going to tell him that I can be a...” he paused and Damien guessed that his lion was filling him in. “A lion! I can be a lion! Roar!” He made tiny claws with his small fingers.

“You didn’t have a mane,” Aaron said skeptically. “And you were spotted.”

“You might need these,” Aaron’s dad added then, handing Damien the rest of Trevor’s clothing.

Damien exchanged a long thoughtful look with him. He didn’t look nearly as surprised by the events in his front yard as he ought to be. “Thank you,” he said levelly. “Bear?” he guessed.

“Grizzly,” the other man agreed with a crooked grin. “Lion seems the easy guess, given your grandson’s development here. Damn, I thought I had another few years before I had to worry about this.” He eyed his son warily.

“Trevor’s precocious,” Damien said shortly, nodding to confirm his guess.

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