Seed of the Dragon: A Paranormal Dragon Shifter Romance by Serena Rose

you?” I guessed.
    “Yes,” Shawn answered.
    “I’m not giving my son to you,” I said harshly.
    “You must! Or else something bad may happen!” Shawn pleaded.
    “Like what? Getting pregnant and the father running away?” I said while my hand grasped at my tea mug with a hard grip.
    “I’m sorry,” Shawn said, “but I didn’t know.”
    “I tried to find you,” I whispered, “but you were nowhere.”
    “I was in America, of course you wouldn’t find me,” Shawn said.
    I had nothing to say. I looked up at the clock and then back down at my tea.
    “Rachel…” Shawn whispered, “Please, I don’t want anything to happen to either of you two.”
    “You can’t take Michael without me,” I stated proudly, “if he needs to go with you, then I am coming too.”
    “What? Rachel, no! You can’t! It’ll be too dangerous,” Shawn said.
    “So you think it’ll be too dangerous for me but not for my four year old child?! You insult me, you insult my child, you insult my very way of life! You think I didn’t work hard every day while modeling? You think I didn’t go to the gym, eat healthy, and watch my figure? You think I didn’t raise Michael by myself and did a hell of a good fucking job?” I spat.
    “I don’t mean to insult you but-“ Shawn began.
    “You did insult me. How dare you insinuate that I can’t take care of my own son, how dare you even suggest that,” I said.
    “I-I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean it that way,” Shawn apologized.
    “How did you mean it then?” I questioned as I crossed my arms.
    “I only meant that it might be more dangerous for you to be with us than not,” Shawn explained.
    “No matter, Michael isn’t going with you anywhere without me,” I said, “and even if this whole shifter thing is true, Michael wouldn’t want to go without me.”
    “Then you will come with us?” Shawn asked.
    “Why should I? What if we aren’t actually in danger and you’re lying?” I retorted.
    “Trust me,” Shawn pleaded.
    “Why should I? You have given me no reason to,” I said.
    “I have never lied to you,” Shawn said.
    “You said we would never see each other again,” I replied.
    “At the time I believed that to be true. I didn’t think you’d get pregnant with my child,” Shawn said, “I wasn’t lying.”
    “…I believe you,” I replied, “but I still don’t trust you.”
    “You don’t need to trust me,” Shawn said.
    “Are you a shifter then?” I asked.
    “Yes,” Shawn replied.
    “Prove it to me,” I said.
    “Pardon?”
    “Shift. Right now,” I demanded.
    “Uhh….  I can’t,” Shawn said.
    “What? Then you must be lying-“
    “Wait! Wait, I can partially shift right now just not fully… because… I might break the house,” Shawn explained.
    I looked at him in disbelief and motioned for him to continue. He sighed and held out his hand. He breathed in deep and I began to see his hand morph and change into something else. Scales began to appear over his skin, shining a brazen red, then his nails thickened and elongated into claws.
    I was breathless for a moment as I watched. Then I held out my hands to Shawn, and he put his clawed hands in them. I touched the scales in wonder; they felt cool to the touch. I rolled up the sleeve of Shawn’s shirt and looked at where the scales turned back to skin. It wasn’t so much a simple line but just less and less scales as I went up his forearm. The skin there felt hot to the touch, as if it might burn me.
    “My temperature gets heightened to the point where I can burn other people, but I’ve learned to control it over time which is why it only feels just hot to you,” Shawn explained.
    “Is that what Michael did?” I asked.
    “What exactly happened with Michael?” Shawn questioned as he shifted his hand back.
    I sighed and looked towards the kitchen exit where Michael and my bedroom was. “I think he burned a man after he got scared and angry,” I explained.
    “Who was the