TYLER POV - CHAPTER 45
Blue Lake didn’t welcome you.
It assessed you.
The moment my boots crossed the territorial line, the land reacted—not with hostility, but with awareness. The wards pressed lightly against my skin, like fingers testing bone density before deciding whether to strike.
I’d only felt this once before.
The day Iris confronted our parents.
The day the prophecy stopped being theory.
The day Skye Bradford proved, without raising his voice or baring his teeth, why every Alpha in the region deferred to him.
Blue Lake wasn’t just powerful.
It was disciplined.
Aaron walked beside me, silent for once. Even he could feel it—the way the territory tightened as we moved deeper, the way wolves we passed straightened instinctively, eyes flicking toward the pack house like some
