Four Masked Wolves

My four wolf-shifter best friends want to play a game with me. They cover their faces with skeleton masks, take me to the forest, and tell me to run for my life. I make it a mile into the woods before their howls echo through the dark night. They hunt me. They surround me. They seize me. Once they bring me back home, they’ll protect me from all the secrets that I’ve been hiding since I escaped my father’s estate weeks ago. But will their protection be enough from the monster that lives inside me too?