CHAPTER NINETEEN

I turn and try to run as fast as I can, back toward the lodge, toward Caleb, but there are too many of them, and I’m still new to my wolf form.

They descend on me, howling and baying, and one of the biggest ones, a brown wolf with black eyes, jumps onto my back, biting my ruff and throwing me onto my side.

I scramble to my feet, trying to escape, but then two of them shift back into human form and throw something that looks like gray rope over me.

It burns as soon as it hits me, and I thrash beneath it. Quickly, I realize that it isn’t gray rope. It’s silver chains.

Silver - the one thing that can subdue a werewolf and limit their powers.

I struggle and snarl, trying to throw the silver chains off me, but then someone approaches me and snaps a silver collar around me neck.

Coughing and sobbing, I find myself instantly snapped back into human form. With the collar on, I can’t shift again.

“Who are you?” I cry, grabbing at the collar and trying to yank it off. It’s