Nyx's POV
"Not there," my mother said gently, squeezing my hand. "We're not going back to our old territory, sweetheart."
Confusion swirled through my foggy mind. The healer was still examining my arm, murmuring something about muscle damage and healing progress, but I couldn't focus on her words.
"Then where?" I asked, my voice still rough and weak.
My mother hesitated, glancing at the healer, then at Finn standing by the door. She smoothed my hair back from my face, and I saw tears in her eyes.
"Somewhere safe," she said finally. "Somewhere he'll never find us."
The way she said "he" made my chest tighten. Warrick. Just thinking his name made the mate bond pull faintly, a distant echo I'd grown used to ignoring.
"Mom, what happened?" I tried to sit up again and the healer made a d
