After retrieving my underwear from Kerry’s pocket and smoothing my hair, I was presentable, and we rejoined the party. Most of them had moved to the outside patio, as they tended to do. Shifters loved being outside.
The majority of the mountain lion shifters were male. Cas had explained that for some reason female lion shifters were just born less often. They didn’t really have an explanation for it. But, interspecies marriage was encouraged, as the children never seemed to suffer any ill effects of the mixed DNA. They followed the dominant line, which was usually the lions anyway.
Cas, Levon, and Kerry weren’t just the leaders of the lions. The entire Eastern Tennessee shifter community was under their protection.
Shifters didn’t harm shifters. It was the law. We were all family. At fi
