Free Freeing A Lion: BBW Paranormal Lion Shape Shifter Romance (Sleeping Lions - Shifters Prime Book 2) by Harmony Raines

said you can stay here; she’s going to make chocolate brownies.”
    “What are those?” Lea asked.
    “Can’t you remember them?” Daniel asked.
    Lea shook her head. “Nope.”
    “Then you are in for a treat,” Daniel said. “Just make sure you save some for us. Lottie can have one as a treat if she gets this right. If not she can watch us all eat them.” He tried to keep his voice light, not wanting to worry anyone. If they had to do this, then he needed Lottie to be relaxed and he needed to know Lea was safe.
    “No pressure, then?” Lottie joked.
    “None at all,” Daniel said, his eyes catching hers to reinforce this. If she couldn't shift into her lioness, it wouldn't matter; they could live with her as a human. But he knew she wanted to run with them to be like them, and his lion wanted that too. He wanted them to be perfect mates.
    We already are , Daniel told his lion.
    “Right. Let’s go,” Lottie said after Lea had gone into the kitchen to help Daphne.
    Daniel pulled out some car keys. “Here, Lance has lent us his car and given me directions to somewhere a little more secluded.”
    “So I don't make a fool of myself?” she asked.
    “So that you aren't naked in front of everyone,” he said lightly.
    “What?” she asked.
    “Seems that until you get used to it, you have a good chance of ending up naked when you change back,” he said. “Now, I don't mind. But you might.”
    “Are you serious?”
    “About not minding? Sure,” he said.
    “No, you fool. I mean about the naked bit,” she said. “Daphne had to rustle up some clothes for me as it is. I don't want to ruin them already.”
    “You won’t. You can leave them behind.”
    She blushed. “I can't be naked in front of you.”
    “Yes you can,” he said. “Now, shall we get going?”
    She sighed. “I don't have a choice, do I?”
    “You could always try to shift some other time,” he said, knowing she didn't want to put it off, but wishing in some ways she would. The responsibility of turning her and now having to teach her how to shift weighed heavily on his shoulders. It felt as if he had managed to free Lea, and instead had trapped Lottie in his world.
    “No, let’s go,” she said.
    “Here, you had better take these,” he said handing her the keys.
    “Don't you want to drive?” she asked.
    “I can't,” he said, feeling foolish. “I never learned.”
    “Then we can make a deal: if you teach me how to shift, I’ll teach you how to drive,” she said.
    “I don’t know which will be more scary,” he said, as they climbed into the old car and put their seatbelts on.
    Lottie turned the key, and the engine tried to start. Three times she had to try it before it sparked into life. “I am going to kiss my car,” she said, pulling off, leaving a cloud of black smoke behind them.
    Daniel coughed. “That’s bad.”
    The closeness of her body as she sat next to him in the car was disturbing. Without his collar, his awareness of her was intense, producing a deep ache inside him. His lion was doing his best to get Daniel’s attention, pacing up and down, lifting his head to sniff the air and then roaring, before rolling over on the ground, impatient to be free.
    Daniel couldn't help laughing. I’ve missed you, old friend , he said, and the lion sat up, looking out with his patient amber eyes.
    “This place is amazing,” Lottie said as they drove through a small collection of houses, where a herd of zebra were grazing. “Those are people, right?”
    “I think so. Remember, I haven’t been here for over twenty years. In some ways it’s as new to me as it is to you.” He watched as a wolf trotted towards them along the road. Yes, this was surreal, he had seen many things on his travels with Nora, but everything here seemed out of place. Wolves on open grass plains, while zebra grazed, with no care in the world. Those two animals would never be so close to each other, they belonged on different continents.
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