Chapter 109: Is It Contagious?

ZAYLEN

As I listened to Liana's words, a sense of disbelief washed over me, mingling with a growing sense of dread.

Each symptom she described seemed to match that of a werewolf transformation — something I had experienced firsthand. Starting from unquenchable hunger to sudden growth in nails… all of it were symptoms of transformation.

Now, it made sense why she was able to guess Aaron was a werewolf and why she had a heightened sense of smell and sound. That might also be why she was staring at that patient's mangled body that way.

But it couldn't be possible, could it? Liana wasn't a werewolf. She had not been bitten by one, had she?

Oh, dear Goddess, if that had happened —

But she would have told me if it had, right?

The thought gnawed at me, a nagging doubt that refused to be ignored. So, I finally voiced the question that had been lingering at the back of my mind.

"Liana, did you get bitten by a werewolf?" I asked, my voice reluctant.

As Liana hesitated, my stomach dropped to