Chapter 287

“Quinn fought us on the idea of paying human women to breed. He thought we’d end up with a bunch of mercenary whores who didn’t give a damn about wolves. At least if you seduced your breeder, you knew she was willingly giving a puppy to the pack. It certainly could have gone that way, but we needed to try something new. We weren’t having new puppies as fast as we were losing the old. We were going to become extinct. It might have taken a thousand years due to our lifespans, but it would happen. It’s worked even better than we anticipated, and I suspect, we have Jessica to thank for that. She evangelized for wolves, showed other women that they wouldn’t be harmed if they had puppies. We’ve had more new puppies born in the last year than we had in the previous twenty. With the New England and Wisconsin packs leading the way, our birth and death rates are reversing and the packs are starting to gain members. Without resorting to biting humans, which would have resulted in all-out war w