Page 58 of Brazen

“But how did the wolf get inside me?” JT asked.

Sam looked at me.

Eek. Here it was–the moment I’d been avoiding for five years.

“Well, bud, your dad was a wolf shifter,” I said. “So you are half-wolf shifter like your dad and half-human like me.”

JT looked at me with those big blue eyes. He had asked me before if he had a dad, and I’d simply told him no. That I’d wanted a little boy so much that I decided to have him on my own. “Oh.”

“When you get older, your wolf may come out, or he may not,” Sam said gently. “But you’re still a wolf, whether you can shift or not.”

“What’s shift?” JT asked, grabbing a pebble and flinging it down the trail.

“Well, since I’m a grownup I can shift into my wolf form. Let him out and run. Do you want to see?”

JT’s eyes practically bulged out of his head. “Yes!”

Sam looked at me, brows raised.

“Can he? Please?” JT wiggled with eagerness.

I smiled as a sense of relief washed over me. I’d feared a day would come at some point where JT needed to know more about what he was. I’d figured I at least had until puberty. Ted had told me that was when they first shifted. But Ted had also said a baby with a human might never shift, and to him, that was a bad thing. Still, I’d been bracing against a future where I had to deal with this on my own.

But I wasn’t on my own with JT anymore.

Sam was here, and he understood everything about what my son experienced. Thank God. I was barely handling rafter climbing. I wasn’t sure how I could handle my precious baby turning into a wolf. What if he didn’t turn back? Now I didn’t have to face that moment alone.

I realized they were quiet and waiting for my answer.

Did I want the man I was falling for to show me his wolf?

Hell, yes, I did. I might even swoon.

“Go for it.”

Sam grinned and stood, jumping down from the boulder in a single bound. He started stripping his clothes off.

JT instantly stood to undo his jeans like he was going to get naked, too.

“No, just Sam, bud. We’re going to stay dressed.”

Oh my God. What was it about kids and keeping their clothes on?

“Oh.” JT slouched a bit in disappointment. It was clear he wanted to do everything Sam did, which made my chest feel warm and gooey.

Sam looked up at us, winked and dropped to all fours. Then… holy shit. A giant white wolf with pale blue eyes stood in his place.

“Whoa,” JT said in awe.

“Whoa,” I repeated.

We both scrambled down the boulder.

“Oh my God, Sam.” I didn’t know why I had to touch him. Had to feel that fur in my fingers.

He lay down on his belly, as if to make himself less frightening for JT, who had frozen at the base of the boulder with wide eyes.

“C-can I touch him?” JT asked.