**Anna's POV:**

He looks at my face. I know what he sees — the color hasn't come back yet, and the doctor's warning is still in the room between us. He looks at me for three seconds with the expression of a man who has completed his calculation, and then he looks at Karl.

"The Carlow Estate," he says. "Border territory, east boundary. Karl, I need you to move her there tonight. Quietly. No paper trail, no disclosed route." He pauses. "My father doesn't know ...