Bramwell's POV
I had not been to the capital city in four years.
Verath was everything the pack territories were not — dense, layered, indifferent to hierarchy in the visible sense while being ruthlessly ordered underneath. The old city wall had been built for a smaller version of the place; now it served as an interior boundary between the original districts and the sprawl that had grown around them.
Lenora came with me.
We had a brief argument about this that she won entirely.
"You need someone who can move through the city without being recognized as the Alpha of Ironbridge," she said. "I've spent two years being invisible. Use it."
I could not argue with this.
We traveled with Daren and two of his most trusted guards, in plain clothes, on horses that had no pack insignia. We wer
