“But if you’re going to resist, I may have to file to have you re-categorized.”

The threat was small, but it rubbed me the wrong way because I knew losing my lawful status would erase any chance I had of joining the Mythguard. They would never consider a shifter who was categorized hostile, and now Sebastian Hicks was standing before me, warning that he would do just that to me. He’d destroy that childhood dream of mine before my very eyes.

It didn’t just rub me the wrong way. It ...