Chapter Twenty-Six
I sit up.
The morning that was warm and unhurried and finally mine goes cold in the space of a single sentence and I sit in it and I breathe through it and I look at Caden's phone on the pillow between us.
"Say that again," I say to the phone.
"Eli Morrow was found this morning at his property," the woman, Vera, says. "The circumstances suggest he did not die naturally. I am the Greywood pack healer and I am also the person Eli contacted two days ago asking me to call this number if something happened to him."
Two days ago.
Before I called him. Before Kael came through the southern gate. Before any of last night.
He was already afraid. He already knew enough to be afraid and he set up a contingency and did not tell me because telling me would have scared me and he
