Chapter 5 “I’ve had the responsibility of so many lives in my hands for so long. Now I will be adding five more innocents. I will be taking them from their safe homes and bringing them into a world where, more often than not, bloodshed is the norm and darkness lives inside the very mate they will each one day take. How am I to justify that? How am I to tell them that I can offer them nothing other than the promise of the love of a Creator and the wolf she made for them? Is that enough? Or is it too much to ask?” ~Perizada “Can you please tell me why the young wolf is cursing you so profusely and give me a very good reason not to cause him harm for disrespecting my mate?” Lucian’s voice rumbled through Peri’s mind as she stood staring indifferently at a snarling Costin. She caught a glimp