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Callie.
    As Aaron watched his kids and the other lions playing a car racing game, he sat on the empty couch and settled back, smiling.  The boarding house had become a haven.  Not only for his own family, away from the cruelty of the females, but for other lions as well.  Ashland had seemed so strange when they first arrived, but now it felt like home.  They were accepted by the majority of the people in town, although just like in King there were always a few who had issues with weres in general.  Nothing ever came from those people, but they’d had to explain to their kids that sometimes people don’t like what they don’t understand.  They encouraged the kids to always be polite, no matter what.  He was glad that his kids were, by nature, sweet and caring.
    The only thing missing from the house, missing from their lives, was a woman.  But not any woman, of course.  It had to be Sam.
    Aaron hadn’t ever been on a date.  He’d had sex, yes, with a female lion named Niecy who was the biological mother of his three boys, but she hadn’t wanted anything to do with him romantically.  For some reason, female lions were completely void of any emotions outside of anger.  They would take a male lion to bed for casual sex or to create a cub, but there was no dating.  No kissing.  No lovemaking.  He’d never been with anyone besides Niecy, and being with her had always left him feeling cold and used.  He used to think that he was the one using her, so he could have a cub to love and share his life with, to be the sort of father like his own had been to him.  But it didn’t matter who used who in the scenario because once she became pregnant, she refused to see him except when he dropped off money to pay her bills.  When Owen, his oldest, was born, Niecy had sent him an email when she was back home from delivering him, and he’d had to race to the hospital to pick him up.  The hospital had thought she abandoned him and was calling the authorities right when Aaron arrived.  He still got chills thinking about what a debacle that could have been.  Not too long after Owen arrived, he felt the urge to have another child, and Nathan was born, and then Ben, who was now eight.  They were each only a year apart, and it had all happened so fast, but he never regretted anything about it.  Not the sleepless nights, the endless diapers, and the aching loneliness that hit him some nights when he would be rocking one of his sons back to sleep and then he would have to crawl into his cold and empty bed.
    Grant had dated a little since they’d been in Ashland, but Aaron hadn’t found anyone worth asking out.  Until he saw Sam.  He’d taken a gamble and asked her out, and although a small part of him wished that he could have met her first and been with her last night, things just felt right.
    Dressing in a light blue button down shirt and black slacks, he popped his wallet into his pocket and headed downstairs for his date.  He kissed his boys goodbye as they sat at the big dinner table, eating with almost everyone except Grant who was still asleep and James who was working second shift.  A chorus of “good lucks” and wolf whistles followed him out the front door as he pulled on his leather coat and were silenced when the door shut soundly behind him.
    It took only a few minutes to drive to her apartment, and he flipped his keys back and forth around his finger as he walked up the steps to her second-floor apartment.  His heart felt like it would pound out of his chest as he lifted his hand to knock on the door, squeezing the single yellow rose with red tips he had purchased earlier.  Grant had shared that he had brought her a single rose, and Aaron had been tempted to buy her a whole dozen of them, but he didn’t want her to feel like she was being pulled between them or they were competing for her.  If she was meant for both of them to share, then he and Grant had to be willing to work together and get