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

had things that were hard to share.
    “Some. I remember my father’s face. A vague memory of my mother. More of a sense of her, you know?”
    “Yes, I know,” she said, her eyes misting a little, giving him some clue as to where her hurt lay. “Are they dead?”
    “My father, yes, it’s why Nora, Lea’s mom, came here. She brought me here to protect me.”
    “From what?” Lottie asked.
    “The man who murdered my father.”
    “Didn’t he get brought to justice?” she asked.
    “I don’t think so. Things didn’t work that way in the Prime. And when she came here, Nora cut off all ties with anyone she ever knew. So he might have.” Daniel felt the ghost of Nora on his shoulder; she had given up everything for him. And for his mother. Nora said they had been best friends, and so when someone had to run, taking Daniel to safety, she had volunteered.
    “I’m sorry,” Lottie said. “And you don’t know what happened to your mom?”
    “No, nor my brothers.”
    “Do you want to know?” Lottie asked.
    “I don’t know. When I was a kid, yes, I did. The last few years though, I’ve thought about it, and now I just want me and Lea to find somewhere safe, no family politics to get caught up in. Or death threats if the murderer is still on the loose. So we’ll go and find somewhere quiet to live. I’ve had enough excitement to last me for ever.”
    “We’re on Team Vagabond,” Lea piped up.
    “What’s Team Vagabond?” Lottie asked, looking at Lea in her mirror.
    “That’s what we said we would be when we were free. We spent so much time in cages; we are going to walk until we can’t walk any further.”
    “Like vagabonds, no fixed home,” Daniel said.
    “Sometimes it’s nice to feel as if you belong,” Lottie said, glancing at Daniel.
    “I know, but who do I trust?” he asked, and her eyes told him that the one person he could always rely on was her. Lottie was somehow connected to him, in a deep emotional way.
    “OK, we are close to the border,” Lottie said. They had just passed a sign with a warning about entering the borderlands next to Shifters Prime. It was like they were expecting an invasion of shifters.
    Daniel shifted nervously in his seat. “I hope it all goes smoothly.”
    “It should. You have nothing to hide,” Lottie said.
    “I’m not even sure what happens when we get there,” he said.
    “Here.” She handed him her phone. “Google it.”
    “What it?” he asked.
    “Type it into the search.” She looked up at his confused face. “I guess you are behind most of the modern-day technology.”
    She pulled over and showed him how to use her phone. He then spent the next half an hour accessing everything he could about shifters and Shifters Prime. It blew his mind. So people hated shifters, while some thought they should be treated as equals, and then there was the website set up for pure humans to advertise their willingness to become a shifter.
    He searched for how the transformation took place. It sounded painful, and he wondered why anyone would want to become one of them. By the time they were dropping down out of the hills towards the border, he had discovered more about his kind than he ever knew.
    And he also discovered they would check their DNA as they went through the border and try to match it to a contract. This worried Daniel. What if Trevor or someone else at the circus had made a bogus contract with his or Lea’s DNA on it?
    “Everything OK?” she asked.
    “Yes,” he said, handing her phone back to her. “It should be straightforward.”
    “Great. Then I’ll park up here,” she indicated a quiet road, up on the hill overlooking the border, and pulled over. “We can walk down to the border.”
    “You don’t have to come with us.”
    “Yes I do. I want to see you walk over the border, otherwise I’ll worry about you.” She switched off the ignition and undid her seatbelt. “OK. Let’s sort the packs out.”
    They all got out, Daniel