Damien went to the territory before the Shadow Council wolves arrived. He took twenty of his strongest fighters and confronted them, leaving James to defend the compound with their remaining forces.
"You're going to get yourself killed," Elena said, arming herself to join him.
"I die defending my family." Damien spoke flatly and definitively. "But I won't let another attack reach the nursery while my kids are unconscious."
In an abandoned factory district three miles from the territory border, they caught the Shadow Council force. Luna's scent was likely from the captured Preservation Council operative, and the sixty wolves were tracking her.
"Spread out," Damien told his wolves. Force them into buildings where their numbers matter less."
Ambush worked initially. Damien's wolves drove
