Mateo's POV
"She destroyed the Council!" one of them yelled. "She needs to answer for it!"
"She exposed corruption," I shot back. "Big difference."
"The Council maintained order for generations!"
"By murdering anyone who disagreed with them," Aria said, stepping forward despite my attempt to keep her back. "If that's your definition of order, then I'm happy to destroy it."
More wolves were gathering now. I did a quick count. We had maybe seventy wolves total on our side. They had at least a hundred.
This was going to get bloody.
"Last chance," I said to the Council loyalists. "Walk away."
"We're not going anywhere," their leader said. "That woman is an enemy to all wolves. And we're going to—"
He didn't get to finish because hotel security arrived with reinforcements. City police and what looked like Council-sanctioned peacekeepers.
