Rejected By my Mate, Chosen By the King
"What does that mean?"
"It means," Kael said, rising, offering her a hand up from the cold ground, his grip steady even though nothing else about the night had been, "that they're close enough to us that they heard about tonight's raid before we'd even finished riding back. And that frightens me considerably more than an arrow in the dark ever could."
Behind them, Nyra finally rose from the body, wiping her hands on her cloak with a grim, mechanical thoroughness, her voice rough when she spoke. "We need to get back. Now. Before whoever did this decides a dead tracker wasn't quite enough insurance."