Chapter 227

Third Person's POV

Tonight's den was alive with the scents and howls of the Empire's most powerful Packs. Almost every Alpha and matriarch of the capital's top families had converged, their furs gleaming under the lanterns, eyes alert to every ripple of power. Yet Cerys found her gaze drawn elsewhere-not to the glittering cliques or to the Shadowscourge Alpha Valerius, though he was ever-present a