The guards stumbled to barricade the doors. Solomon loudly bellowed a word in the language that he spoke with his family, the language that Layla did not understand, and within seconds every member, including the women, shifted. It was intimidating to be surrounded by hundreds of well-trained muscular wolves. Her old fear of the beast rose to the surface, she wanted to run but she was surrounded. She felt as if she was still a child standing between her shifted parents.

But one ...