Chapter 33: That's Entertainment
Anneliese POV
When the lights dimmed in Makhel’s living room after dinner, Anneliese scooted back, from him on the loveseat with every nerve in her body instantly on alert. “Makhel? What’s happening?”
His hand gripped hers in the dark. “Have no fear.”
“Did I say I was afraid?”
Truthfully, she felt relieved, because just before the lights went out, Makhel had been showing her the plans for his baby gifts for the Cresta Alphas’ heirs. Shamefacedly, he admitted he’d forgotten one for Kyon and Azandra, but would make one for them, too.
The gifts would be unique. On Makhel’s drafting paper, he’d drawn a detailed playpen complete with a hanging mechanical mobile and all kinds of gadgets to amuse or soothe a shifter infant, and to invite them to play and explore when they got a bit older. The mechanical mobile featured stars, moons, and a wolf in the different stages of life. When the mobile spun, the wolf shifted back into a human.