Caesar's POV
I shifted the second I cleared the hospital's back exit, clothes tearing away as fur and claws took over.
Running on four legs ate up the distance in a fraction of the time a car ever could, and every second mattered.
I heard the gunshot before I even reached the block.
I hit the warehouse's loading dock door at full speed, splintering it off its hinges without slowing down.
Hailey was on the ground, blood already pooling beneath her shoulder, Theron standing over her with the gun still raised for a second shot.
I got there first.
My jaws closed around his forearm before he could pull the trigger again, and his scream echoed off the metal walls as I wrenched him backward, the gun clattering uselessly across the concrete.
He shifted almost instantly—a
