Before Aiden Alpha walked through the gate with hIs men, Emmaus had been imprisoned. They came in four SUVs raving into the streets with deafening noise. Sam appeared down the alley with ten other men and five women holding M5s, hoping to end Alpha and his pack for once.

Guero's fortress had been a place of lots of chance wars, protests, retaliation attacks, and sometimes reconciliation. Now that he's gone, the firing will be mild because his sniper ran off with Elvira.

She had challenged him about Smallsvile's renewable energy commission. That day he was to send his men to collect it from Alpha's pack before they went to the...