Page 97 of Mafia Prince (Paranormal Delights 1)
Amy glanced away, and when her hair shifted, Foi got to see the bruise blossoming on her cheek just under her eye.
"Yeah, well, two kids running away is no no," she muttered.
Foi growled, but it was more at the situation than at Amy herself. The fact that Gabriel Manetti had put his hands on both of his children was unforgivable.
"Well, we're here to help with that.”
Amy nodded, and Foi broke the chain of cuffs and then the cuffs themselves. The moment her hands were free, Amy pushed him to the side and fell forward. Foi turned just in time to see she'd grabbed a fallen gun and shot a single bullet into an oncoming guard's forehead. She was aiming to kill, and the steadiness in her breathing said she'd done it before. Again, Foi was hit with the realization that Porter hadn't had a happy-go-lucky childhood. It didn't matter that he was human, he’d lived a nightmare of his own.
"Thanks," Foi said.
"I'm no damsel in distress, I'll help where I can," Amy said.
Foi nodded, and they ran out of the room. Foi had lost sight of Cyrus but found him once more with ten times the amount of guards in the open. Fuck, it was never-ending.
"Stay close," Foi said. He shifted into his wolf form once again and attacked the nearest set of guards.
He dodged fists and knives the best he could, but bullets were a whole other story. A few grazed him, nicking him on his side and one even clipped his ear. It all burned, but he didn't let the pain distract him. He took down anyone in front of him. Just as the glint of a gun shimmered in his peripheral, he growled, knowing all too well he wouldn't be fast enough to dodge it. But there was no need; the guard aiming at him went down with two holes in his chest.
"I got you, wolf boy," Amy said.
Foi huffed at the nickname but didn't have time to argue with her over it. The fight raged on, and Foi shifted back and forth, battling in both forms. A hand yanked his hair and he fell back just as a fireball whizzed by his face. Motherfucker had supernaturals on his payroll. Fuck.
Foi glanced and saw Amy, thankful she'd saved him from being toasted like bacon. He grunted thanks and grabbed her before pushing her behind a wall just as another fireball shot past them.
"Fucking fire mage, really?" Foi growled.
But Foi didn’t need to worry. A blur moved behind the mage. Shock registered on the mage’s face as he dropped to his knees. The fireball that had been forming in his hands fizzled out as he fell forward into a puddle of blood.
Shit, Ozni was on a roll.Foi took in a breath; he and Amy were slightly hidden behind a wall. He needed to catch his fucking breath.
"Shit! You were just shot, how are you still moving?" Amy shouted.
For a human, she was surprisingly more calm about the shoot-out and being surrounded by monsters than most. Foi shrugged, using his claws to dig it out. There was no way he was going to let Jaygen do it again.
"I've been shot four times so far," Foi said.
Amy shook her head. "What kind of world did my brother get himself into?" She smiled and moved around Foi with a practiced step. Amy took a solid shooting stance as she aimed her gun and took out two more guards coming up the stairs. "Not to sound like a nagger or anything, but I literally have four bullets left, and my father has more guards than normal.”
"Why?" Foi asked, pulling Amy down as a body went flying right past them. Ozni wasn't holding back; the man was missing an arm, and torn pieces of flesh hung from his face.
"What the fuck?" Amy shook her head and focused on Foi. "Um, I don't know. A few weeks ago he went out with some of his men and came back all weird. He all of sudden demanded more guards and hired a few mercenaries. Even went through the trouble of hiring some paranormals."
Shit.Foi knew precisely what had happened. He knew they should have killed the man then and fuck the consequences everything had gone to hell and they could still start a damn war. But he didn't have time to ponder on that. Ozni came into view, and his eyes were pure black, his true daywalker nature showing. They needed to get him out of there. Ozni was still working on his control and at the rate they were going, he was going to be wholly lost to the blood lust.
"Cover me?" Foi said. He was going to trust a human with a gun. He was losing his shit, but to be fair, it was Porter's sister. And Porter was his man, his packmate, and his everything.
Amy gave a curt nod, and Foi shifted into his giant wolf form. His paws didn't even hit the ground as he leapt at a guard heading for Ozni's back. Something sharp ripped through Foi's chest, but he continued on. His teeth sank into flesh, and the coppery tang of blood flooded over his tongue and gushed between his canines. His beast relished in the bloodshed, and he yanked his head from side to side as he tore his enemy apart.
A gurgled scream was the last sound the man made as he dropped and Foi was forced to let him go or be dragged down to the floor. Foi wrenched his head just as magic burst over the area they were fighting. He didn't even get to warn anyone as a blast of pure magic had him slamming into the wall. Pain blossomed over his ribs and a whine slipped free. The spots he'd been fighting back in his eyes for a while threatened to take him all the way out.
Porter's sweet brown eyes appeared in front of his face and for a second, he was so happy to see his human, the man he loved before he died. But one mistake had been made, he hadn't told Porter he loved him, hadn't opened that last little bit and given the human all that he had. His tongue lolled out of his mouth as he tried to get it to form the words. But even if his mouth was working, there was no way in hell he could talk. He was still in his wolf form.
Porter was saying something but Foi couldn't make it out. But why was Porter there? A hard smack against this snout had Foi shaking his head. Pain shot up his face and made him sneeze out blood.
"That is both gross and slightly reassuring I think," Amy's voice finally penetrated the fog of Foi's mind.
Foi blinked. It wasn't Porter kneeling near him but Amy. That's right, they were on a mission. He didn't have time to lie around.
