title: Raised by Wolves: Stories and Essays
author: Chris Roberts
description: Chris Roberts is a reporter for a Long Island newspaper. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and Long Island Newsday. Her writing career follows thirty years as a federal investigator. Roberts resides in Nassau County with her husband and daughter.
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  **A J AGUAR’S K ISS**
  
   **Lora Leigh**
  
  For Natalie.
  
  For your friendship, your willingness to listen,
  
  and your patience in the face of so many
  
  different versions of one story.
  
  But most of all, just for being you.
  
  **FOREWORD**
  
  T hey were created, they weren’t born.
  
  They were trained, they weren’t raised.
  
  They were taught to kill, and now they’ll use their training to ensure their
  freedom.
  
  They are Breeds. Genetically altered with the DNA of the predators of the
  earth. The wolf, the lion, the cougar, the Bengal: the killers of the world.
  They were to be the army of a fanatical society intent on building their own
  personal army.
  
  Until the world learned of their existence. Until the Council lost control of
  their creations, and their creations began to change the world.
  
  Now, they’re loose. Banding together, creating their own communities, their
  own s