A Lion Walked Into a Safari Bus Full of Strangers! Then He Ignored Everyone and Chose One Elderly Man…

gently against his.

“You came to say goodbye last time,” she said.

Grant watched Boone blink slowly in the shade.

“I did.”

“And now?”

Boone rested his scarred paw in the grass. His eyes stayed on Grant, calm and golden and alive.

Grant let the question sit there until it no longer hurt.

“Now,” he said, “I’ll see him next month.”