FIVE YEARS LATER
“Eros, stay close to the garden please and don’t go wandering!” I called out to my son, laughing as he stayed in his wolf form and stalked the neighborhood cat. `They would report us if I weren’t careful, but that cat had had enough warnings, and yet it still continued to push its luck with Eros. Knowing he wouldn’t hurt the small animal, I left him to show him who was the Alpha between the two. Eros was such a sweet boy; he would never harm anything for fun. Just as I had told the strange man all those years ago, wolves were not programmed that way and my Eros was no exception. Following the tradition of his family, I named him after the Gods - Except I decided to go with a God of love, hoping a name with such passion behind it would end the tragic lineage that was his f
