Chapter 27: The Alpha’s Burden
Kael’s POV
I knew the moment it happened.
The bond flared through my chest like lightning striking bone.
Sharp.
Violent.
Unmistakable.
Elara had seen me.
I felt the shift the same way a wolf feels thunder long before the storm arrives. It rippled through the pack lands, through the blood that tied every wolf within these borders to me.
The mark had awakened.
After all these years…
It had finally awakened.
Snow crunched beneath my boots as I crossed the fortress courtyard.
The air felt different tonight.
Tense.
Heavy with anticipation.
Several warriors stood along the training grounds, their conversations quieting the moment they noticed me approaching.
They felt it too.
Not the truth.
But the disturbance.
Lucien fell int
