Page 136 of Psycho Beasts

My thighs were wrapped around his neck, choking him out, and his tree-trunk legs were twined around my neck, slowly asphyxiating me.

We both released each other at the same time and rolled to the side, gasping for air.

He offered me a hand and yanked me to my feet.

With his alpha strength, he sent me flying, and his hands on my shoulders stopped my forward momentum.

“My name’s Loren,” he said, brushing white-blond hair out of his eyes as he stared down at me with a weird expression and offered his hand.

With his coloring and size, he reminded me of some sort of bear.

Turn his hand over and assert your dominance.

“Sadie.” I gripped his hand with all my might and shook it aggressively, just like I had with Dean.

He took a step closer.

Z’s voice was pissed off. “Once again, there is no fraternizing with the initiates. Loren, get the fuck out of the ring.”

From the ring next to mine, Ascher yelled an expletive. Xerxes said something I couldn’t hear over a hiss-yell, “She’s mine!” Jax roared again.

When I went over to Molly, she was silent.

She glared at me as she pushed unnecessarily hard at the missing chunk of skin on my arm where Loren had bitten down mid-grapple.

I didn’t wince.

Everything was going fine until twenty-two fights later, when the numb clicked off.

Chapter 24

Sadie

DANCING WITH GODS

During fight ninety-nine, an alpha female slammed her heel into my ovaries, and the pain made me black out for a split second.

The numb clicked off.

I shook my head as consciousness rushed back as fast as it had left, but the world was no longer dull and emotionless.

Everything was saturated with color.

It was too bright.

As I stumbled to my feet, the bell sounded.

I gasped as the pain of too many fights flooded through me in a rush of agony.

I would have screamed—at least ten of my bones were broken—but I choked on the blood gushing from my broken nose, down my throat.

Molly immediately sensed something was wrong and hauled me to my feet.

Her gorgeous face wavered in and out of my vision, and she spoke from somewhere far away. “Just one more fight. You have to survive this without passing out. You can do one of anything.”

I vomited blood.

It splattered across my chest.

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