Chapter 227

• The next day, even more wolves showed up. Hayden was woken by a knock on the door. He rolled out of bed and glanced at where Mica had laid down on the couch the night before. She had already been sleeping there when he came to the room. Now, she peeked through her lashes at him, then quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
• Hayden threw on a shirt—he’d worn his shorts to bed—and slipped out of the room. Derek, who had been on watch the previous night, quietly explained what happened on the way downstairs. Just under two dozen more wolves had come to seek refuge here. He had arranged for them to be fed while he got Hayden.
• “Good thinking,” Hayden said, nodding approvingly. “With so many newcomers, we’re going to have to put them all to work, and they can’t do that on empty stomachs.”