Rhiannon watched as if in slow motion that needle descending into her womb, ready to hurt her children... and then all the pain, all the fear, all the despair and anguish took a single dark and dangerous shape: the shape of the Goddess's Wolf.

Her skin vibrated with pent-up rage, and a furious she-wolf launched herself out with bloodshot eyes and hot saliva that went to land directly on Erea's chest as she attacked one of her shoulders. The thought of the she-wolf rumbled over those walls like thunder.

“YOU...WILL... NOT... LAY... A PAW... ON OUR PUPS!!!”

Erea lay sprawled on the floor, cornered against a wall as she glared at the huge white she-wolf that stood between her and the girl.

Rhiannon had fainted from the effort of getting Raksha out, she was very weak, she had eaten very little, and had suffered from cold and shortness of breath for thirteen hours in the cargo cabin of an airplane. That, coupled with the terror, the nausea, and demand for energy that the puppies required m