IRIS POV - CHAPTER 69
The war room at Blue Lake had never felt this heavy before.
It wasn’t the size of the room or the number of people inside it that made the air feel thick enough to choke on, but the silence that settled between words every time someone stopped speaking. The long wooden table in the center of the room was covered with maps, notes, and hastily drawn markings showing the forests surrounding Blue Lake, the mountain passes beyond them, and the territories we believed Victoria might use as hiding places.
None of it felt useful.
Because the truth sat unspoken in the middle of the room.
We didn’t know where Kayleigh was.
Skye stood at the far end of the table with both hands braced against the wood, his shoulders tight with the quiet control he used whenever the weight
