Malia My heart sunk in my chest as Ty suddenly hung up the phone. Was everything okay? Had something happened? Anxiety began to build in my stomach as my thoughts landed on myself. What if I had said something wrong or something that upset him? I had just been talking about my plans when returning to New York, it was completely unrelated to him or whatever was going on between us. I stepped outside the back door and breathed in the fresh air, urging myself to calm down. I would call Ty back in the morning and everything would be fine. Off in the distance, I heard howling in the woods and a shiver ran up my spine. As much as I had enjoyed my dad’s stories of wolves growing up, it still scared me to know they were so close by. Wolves were definitely an animal I’d like to love from a dista