They used Elk’s Ridge as a center point and traveled in a widening circle around it. Try as Nick might to convince himself it was nothing more than his mind wanting to replay the kelbit’s attack whenever he slept, he couldn’t get past the fact that it might have a mate and that mate might be after them. The pain that was now almost continuously lancing through his shoulder spiked during his nightmares, but Nick couldn’t be sure it simply wasn’t his imagination working double time. The way he kept flailing and swinging punches didn’t help his shoulder any either.
His mate never said a cross word about it, but Nick saw how his constant waking up, screaming, thrashing, and fighting an enemy that wasn’t there was wearing on Todd. The fact he was reminded daily Todd didn’t believe there was an
