Seeing Spots by Ellen Fisher

Author:Ellen Fisher
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: shapeshifter, seeing spots, ellen fisher, leopard, shapeshifting
Publisher: Ellen Fisher
Published: 2011-10-12T08:00:38.906925+00:00

*****

Dare’s parents were staring at her swimsuit.

Kathy tried not to blush as she got out of the pool to meet the Greenes. True, she’d gone out this morning and bought this suit with the intention of knocking Dare for a loop, but it wasn’t that low-cut. Yes, it was sexy, but no different than a hundred million other women might wear. But his parents were both staring at her, wearing identical expressions of shock, as if she were standing there stark naked.

Dare must have noticed their expressions, because he quickly made introductions. "This is my, uh, friend, Kathy Parrish. Kathy, these are my parents, Dr. Greene and Dr. Greene."

Dare’s mother blinked, shook her head, and wiped the shock off her face, offering her hand with a friendly smile. She was a small, round woman with graying dark hair. "Oh, just call me Susan, dear. No one calls me Dr. Greene outside of the university. Dr. Greene is my husband."

Kathy stole a look at Dare and noticed that he was staring at his feet, looking extremely uncomfortable. She wasn’t surprised, since the situation was undeniably awkward. His parents had stumbled onto the two of them making out in the pool, and in another five minutes they might have found them having sex there. Awkward didn’t begin to cover it, really.

But she’d come to know Dare fairly well over the past couple of days, and she had a suspicion that his discomfort was caused by something else entirely.

She remembered his voice: I always figured I was just an ordinary guy, and you were too smart for me.

It was perfectly obvious that he still felt uncomfortable, inferior, about his chosen career path. His parents were both doctors—one a medical doctor, one with a doctorate in history—and if she remembered correctly, his older brother had a doctorate too. Dare was the black sheep of the family, the only one who hadn’t gone on to college and higher education. Clearly that made him a little uncomfortable. And that discomfort was reflected on his face, and in his slumped, defensive posture.

"Susan," she said, shaking the older woman’s hand. "It’s nice to meet you. And Dr. Greene—"

"Call me Frank."

She smiled, and shook his hand, too. Frank was small, perhaps five foot eight, and mostly bald. How these two people had produced a small giant like Dare she couldn’t quite figure out. "I’m pleased to meet you."

"Well," Susan said, her eyes straying back to Kathy’s swimsuit, "we didn’t mean to… interrupt. We just stopped by to say hello, but since Dare has company…"

"We’d like it if you stayed for dinner," Dare said promptly. "I made plenty of hamburgers."

"Oh, dear, we don’t mean to intrude…"

"No, it’s fine," Dare said. "Really."

Susan glanced back at Kathy, who offered her friendliest smile. "Let’s all have some hamburgers."

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