Conall growled. A low, scary one as he glared at her with accusing wolf eyes. “Who the hell’s that?”

“My friend.”

There was another bang at the door. This time more insistent.

Miki began to say something, but Conall’s hand suddenly covered her mouth. “Not. A. Word,” he bit out between clenched teeth. “Hold on,” he barked at the door.

He took several deep breaths, then slowly released Miki. She slid down his legs, his erection gliding right across her flesh and she let out a little moan before she could stop herself.

“You’re killing me,” he whispered angrily before he pushed her away, pulled his boxers and jeans up, and went toward the door.

“Conall.” He glared at her over his shoulder. “Fangs,” she whispered.

He blinked, realizing parts of him were still wolf. He closed his eyes and cracked his neck. When he opened them again, his eyes were his normal blue and his fangs had receded back into normal incisors.

Miki pushed down her skirt and kicked her torn panties and bra across the room and under the bed as Conall answered the door.

“Yeah?”

“We’re looking for Miki.”

With a grunt, Conall stepped back, allowing Craig, Ben, and Kenny Liu to walk into the hotel room. They gawked at Conall like the main attraction at a freak show.

“What are you guys doing here?”

Kenny was the first one who could actually tear his eyes away from Conall. “Um…you forgot something.”

No she didn’t. She didn’t forget anything. Her friends were checking up on her. They’d probably dumped off Amy and then started wondering what would happen to Miki when Conall woke up. She thought only Sara and Angie were that protective of her.

“Oh, yeah? What?” She loved her friends, but she wasn’t above giving them a hard time for the hell of it.

“Uh…” Kenny looked at Ben who looked at Craig who finally turned away from Conall to look at Miki.

“Um…” he patted his pants. “The…uh…fifty bucks I owe you.” Craig pulled out his wallet and took out several bills. He walked across the room and handed it to Miki.

“That’s the best you can do?” she asked quietly with a smile.

“We were desperate,” he whispered back. “And should I ask what happened to the bed?”

Miki glanced at the displaced bed and back at Craig. “Earthquake.”

“Miki,” he whispered fiercely through his teeth. “This isn’t funny. Did you know your lip was bleeding?”

Conall desperately fought to get himself under some control. He’d never lost it like that before. Never. This one woman had pushed the beast out of him, but she didn’t run screaming like any normal person wouldhave. Instead she’d almost fucked him.

And he almost took her. Right up against the wall. No condom. No rational thought. No thought for consequences. He knew Miki was healthy as a horse—Sara told him often enough. He was surprised the female didn’t pull out Miki’s blood tests as proof. So that wasn’t even an issue for him. But he also knew from looking at her she was a fertile girl. True, he wanted kids one day but right this minute? And with Miki? The woman who had drugged him and left him to go hang with her friends. Really, wasn’t he just trying to get laid here?

Maybe not. Maybe he wanted more. More from the one woman the wolf in him seemed to respond to.

But Miki Kendrick taunted that wolf like it was a small Jack Russell Terrier behind a neighbor’s fence. Crazy woman.

He watched Miki speak to the nerdy imbecile. If they had been in high school together, he would have kicked that guy’s ass on a daily basis.

Of course, the way he was leaning into Miki at that very moment, Conall might still kick his ass.

Miki ran her tongue along her bottom lip and tasted her blood. Christ, things had spun out of control, hadn’t they? She heard Conall growl from across the room and saw all her friends tense. She had to get them out. Now.

“I just bit my lip, it’s nothin’.” She turned Craig around and pushed him toward the door, both her hands against his back.

“You sure you don’t need anything else?”

A box of condoms? “No. But thanks. And thanks for the fifty.” Which she had every intention of keeping.

She shoved Craig out the door, then grabbed Kenny and Ben by their jackets and forced them out. “Thanks, guys. See ya!”

She closed the door on her friends and turned to face Conall. He didn’t say anything, merely stared at her.

“What?” she finally snapped.

“Who the hell were they?”

She pushed off from the door and moved across the room. “They are none of your business.”

“Fine. Whatever.” He headed to the door, snatching his biker jacket up as he walked toward it. “I’ll be in the diner across the street when you’re ready to go to the campus.”

With a slam, he was gone.

Chapter Ten

Conall pushed his second helping of waffles away. Obviously, he was upset—he wasn’t eating as much as he usually did.

Miki. Fuckin’ Miki. She’d done this to him. That tricky, sadistic bitch. He couldn’t wait to fuck her brains out.

He shook his head. No. No. No. She was a treacherous female he should stay away from. He shouldn’t be burying any part of himself into any part of her. She was dangerous. Like uranium. But the way she’d moaned his name when she had that orgasm…