"I will finish this," Vasile told her gently. "Go tend to the young. They will feel safe with you."
Vasile turned to look at the other men. "It's worse than we thought."
Decebel looked back at Jen. She had been a dormant. She too could have suffered the same fate as these little ones.
"Don't," Vasile said as he placed a hand on Decebel’s shoulder. "There is no sense dwelling on what could have happened. It didn't and she's safe."
His old friend was right. He needed to focus on what was happening. He needed to destroy the vampires who would dare touch their pups.
Peri stood on the sidewalk in front of a cute house in a neighborhood of cute houses. She watched as a man and a woman opened their front door and found their precious child, which they thought had been lost to them, standing
