Three months later she had given birth to her cub within that group of savages and she had promised herself to take care of him as soon as he was at her breast. She didn't care who the father of her cub was. What she knew was that he was hers.

She had hoped that at some point they would come for her. If they had done so by their means, perhaps they might give up their cub and accept it, something the males didn't normally do, least of all when their little one was also a male. However, in all t