Chapter 79

Hayden is a shadow wolf, the real deal.

The moment those words left Hayden’s lips, Elise felt like she had finally found something in her heart that she had been searching for.

Something had called to her ever since she read that book not long before. “You are a shadow wolf, and this is the Calhan pack?” she asked, her eyes lighting up with curiosity. “I thought its people were all assassinated during the war 20 years ago,” she muttered to him.

A tense silence followed. Hayden tried to read her intentions as he watched her carefully. Hayden’s walls immediately closed up the minute she asked questions about his home. His eyes grew cold as he studied her, wondering why she was so intrigued by the shadow wolves.

“Why don’t you change out of the hospital gown, and I might answer your questions?” he called, handing her a beige sweater top and pants. She looked at the clothes and went back to him.

“And why do I need to change clothes?” she snarled at Hayden,