Chapter 32

“I should be staying here with you,” Lila complained as Jasper escorted her to the door of the werewolves’ lodge.  “We’ve been together from the start.  I don’t like separating now.”

“You have your people to be with,” Jasper muttered.  “You’ll be safe with them.”

“You’re my people,” she grumbled. “Besides, I’ve been perfectly safe with you right along and that was with vampires.  I can’t imagine it being worse with werewolves.  They, at least, have a human side.”

“If I’m not mistaken, we corrected that fact with our subjects before we escaped,” he observed.

“True,” she said with a voice that hinted of irritation and conviction, “but that was only a handful of them and even they were still mostly vampire with a touch of humanity in them.  It certainly wasn’t enough to make