Chapter 415

“No, you won’t, it isn’t your place to make my decisions for me. I am not a slave to anyone. Besides that, I am carrying a female and she needs her male breeder. I will not leave these men. They have learned to respect me and love me. Send us out of your camp if you wish, but don’t think you have the power to separate us.”

Rose spoke next and what she said stunned me. “You can’t separate mated creatures, anyway. It wouldn’t do any good. No matter the distance or the space you put between us, we are bound together. As a family, we are joined.”

I turned to look at Rose and she smiled that calm smile she had. I had kept private the bond I shared with my family, even from her. It would have seemed like bragging to tell her what we had, but apparently Rose and her family had the same thing. I should have asked.

“We are not so different,” Rose continued, “Paterians and humans. I am part of this family now and I will NOT leave them.”

The administrators all made a va