You cannot pick your family or your mate. In many ways that is a connection between the one you are destined to be with.

She sit considering her thought as she made some tough choices. There was the family bonds between Chas, Vanessa and the young vampire Zacherye to consider. She was finding it more difficult to ignore that and did not have it in her heart to be cruel.

She knew that Chas had brought the female, Syndel, to his workshop and was protecting her. That she did her feeding away from the pard and isle was a good sign.

And now the growing relationship between the shadow walker and her best friend. She knew Akiko was torn between her loyalty and not being alone.

She rubbed her eyes. She loved her pard. Could she bring the vampires here or risk the pard being ripped apart...

Could she trust this to be what it seemed?