The Alpha's Warlock
Four people froze and stared: Laurie, barefoot and with his shirt torn to shreds, his hands bound behind him, lying on the floor curled around his belly with blood dripping into his eyes; one man standing over him, his fist raised and his boot too near Laurie’s stomach; another on a sofa directly across from me, his lit cigarette falling to the ground as he dropped it in shock; and a third standing in the doorway to what looked like a kitchen.
They didn’t stay frozen for long, but I moved too fast for any human to match. A gun sat on the coffee table in front of the couch, and the smoker went for it. I lunged for the man by Laurie, a big, balding fucker with more mass than muscle, and manage