Page 246 of Psycho Beasts

The Ortega brothers opened fire, hundreds of bullets plowing into the blue shield. None penetrated.

You won’t be able to get through the shield.

“Xerxes will follow me outside this door,” the wolf said as he backed up to a door against the wall. “Anyone else follows, and I kill her immediately. My shield will hold, and you won’t be able to get to me. I have nothing left to lose.”

He kept the barrel pressed into Jinx’s head.

Don’t let him leave the room. You’ll never get her back.

“Stop!” Jax alpha-barked, and the wolf stilled for a moment.

However, he was strong, because he quickly shook it off, turning the handle of the door.

Xerxes took a step forward to follow.

DON’T LET HIM LEAVE THE ROOM WITH HER.

Bullets sprayed against the shield uselessly.

The woman hanging from the ceiling kept singing.

Jax roared and shifted into a bear. He tore at the shield, but nothing happened.

Ascher shifted into a ram and barreled headfirst, but it didn’t break.

Cobra’s shadow snakes slammed against the shimmering blue enchantment, unable to penetrate just like the bullets.

The wolf smirked as he twisted the doorknob. “You can’t penetrate the shield. She’s stuck in here with me. There’s no getting in.”

Jinx smirked up at the much larger man. “No,” she said calmly.

The look in her dark eyes was terrifying.

Jinx smiled and said, “There’s no getting out.”

Jinx’s jaw unhinged, and she screamed like she had the first day we’d met the don, “Freeze!”

Everyone froze.

Behind the shield, the wolf’s gun barrel hovered where Jinx had stood moments ago.

“Do it now,” Jinx said with a smile to the ferret as she crouched down and placed it gently on the ground.

The ferret shifted.

Into a man.

Suddenly, a massive naked warrior with shimmering skin stood taller than the wolf shifter.

Jinx’s command wore off, and the leader swung the gun at the new intruder while he himself started to shift into his wolf form.

But the naked warrior took up the space inside the shield with his impressive muscles.

Even partially shifted, the wolf didn’t stand a chance.

The warrior broke the wolf’s arm, slammed his fist into his throat, and kicked out his knees.

Then, with a sharp twist of his biceps, he broke the wolf’s neck before picking up the gun and shooting him repeatedly through the head and chest.

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