"Luna isn't planning on one baby at a time," I said. "She is going to use the human wives of werewolves to birth a new generation. That's what you saw, more than a dozen the first year, all female."

"Yes. Those girls grow up and find their mates among the remaining werewolves here. They get the next generation started, and if we do things right, in two generations we have hundreds of wolves. I might live to see a Pack that rivals what I saw as a boy," I said.

"With no asshole Alphas and no forced mating," I said. "Things will be different with no Pack bond. It will...