Xavier gripped the steel door with his bare hands and pulled back, the frame warping until the latch released and the last impediment to Xavier getting inside the SUV was gone. He ducked back in time to avoid getting shot in the face, then he leaped inside and knocked aside the gun in the human’s hand.
He grabbed the weak mortal by the throat and pulled him out of the SUV. His hand tightened on the short man’s neck, and it took Ruxs whine to still his fingers.
'We need him alive,' Ruxs said, his mental voice feeble. He was panting in pain on the pavement, blood pooling under him, surrounded by dead humans. The rest of Xavier's team swept the woods or tended the injured, those too hurt to move resting in their wolfkin forms not far from Ruxs. 'He can tell us where was Stell, and what was
