Kai was already grabbing the boiling water and tipping it into the cold that my mother had put in the bath already. She nodded a silent thank you to Kai, dismissing him in the same gesture.
“I’ll be in the living area.”
“There is tea in the pot on the table,” my mother said, then shut the bathroom door.
I stripped out of my dirty clothes, then stepped into the bath. I sighed at the warmth and sank into it. Mom grabbed a cloth and moved behind me, washing my skin, my hair, the silence deafening.
“Father kidnapped me,” I started heavily, and she sucked in a breath, her hand stilling in my hair.
“Excuse me?”
“He kidnapped me, Mom. For being a traitor. He took me from the bed with you and kept me in a cell underground, where he has been building an army to fight the wolves,” I expl
