Once they were safely away, she dropped her keys and the device back in her bag.

Conall looked at her. His fangs still out, his eyes red rimmed. “You call that ‘amping it up a bit’?”

She shrugged. “Be thankful. It could have been worse. I’ve been thinking about mating it with a stun gun. You know, for shits and giggles.”

He leaned back in the seat. “You’re a dangerous woman, Miki Kendrick.”

She smiled. She got the feeling he meant that as a compliment.

Chapter Sixteen

Conall had been watching her for the last ten minutes. She’d asked for grape but he could only find cherry. A cherry ice pop. He’d handed it to her after getting back with their lunch from the deli next door.

Once they got safely back to the hotel, and his ears stopped ringing, he’d talked to Sara. Filled her in on the information discovered by Miki’s hacker friends. Told her about what he saw at the Clan den. She was unfazed by the fact Miki had gone with him on his little excursion. Seemed she trusted her friend as much as he did. And he did trust Miki. That realization kept playing through his brain. Sara told him she would talk to Zach once he got back from hunting, and they’d get some Pack members up to Seattle as soon as possible. Then she gave him a direct command. Something she never did. Protect Miki. She didn’t care what he had to do or who he had to kill. She wanted Miki safe.

As far as Conall was concerned, not a problem.

So, he’d settled in to eat the first of the three giant sandwiches with chips and beer he’d bought. But he hadn’t taken a bite. Not once he noticed her and that freakin’ ice pop.

Stomach down on the bed, she worked on her laptop doing more research on hyenas. She had both hands on the keyboard, forcing her to suck on the phallic-shaped ice pop only using her mouth. In and out. In and out. And the slurping sounds—she had to be kidding! He’d bet money Miki had no clue what she was doing to him.

Eventually, he couldn’t take it anymore.

“I want you to do that to me.”

She didn’t look up from her laptop. “Do what,” she mumbled around the pop.

“Suck my cock like you’re sucking that ice pop.”

She froze, her hands pausing over the keyboard. Slowly her eyes lifted, focusing on him. She stared at him for several moments. Then she pulled the ice pop out of her mouth, making sure to include a wet “pop” sound when she did.

“That’s quite the request.”

“It’s not a request.”

Miki grinned, her teeth catching her bottom lip. “I see. A demand.” She pushed the pop past her lips, long and slow, and pulled it out just as slowly. “Interesting.”

Miki slipped off the bed and walked toward him. Suddenly his cell phone went off. They both looked at it. Then they dived for it. But Miki was smallerand faster. She grabbed it and flipped it open.

“Hello? Hi, Zach.”

Conall shook his head and waved her off, his big body dropping heavily into a nearby chair. His now-painful hard-on nearly ripping through his jeans. “Bathroom! I’m in the bathroom!” he mouthed desperately.

“No. No. He’s around. Let me grab him for you.”

He’d kill her.

Miki put the phone behind her, using her ass to cover the mouthpiece. She leaned in close to Conall, whispering right against his ear.

“You’re going to talk to him. And you’re going to be like you always are. And if you can’t hold on a conversation. Or if you let him know I’m going down on you…I stop.”

He wanted to come from that alone, especially when her tongue reached out and swiped across his ear.

She handed him the phone and slipped the ice pop back in her mouth. He held the phone by his ear but hadn’t spoken yet as he watched her kneel in front of him. She undid his jeans and he raised his hips so she could get them off. So busy staring at her, wondering what she was going to do next, he completely forgot about Zach until she motioned to the phone with her head.

“Hey, Zach.”

“Hey. I just talked to Sara. You guys okay?”

Conall nodded his answer.

Miki pulled the pop out of her mouth. “I don’t think he can see your nodding,” she whispered.

He tried to focus. “Yeah. We’re fine.”

Miki ran the ice pop down the underside of his cock and he thought he would jump out of his skin. Evil bitch.

“Good. All right. We’ve pulled about eight of our guys to send your way. That should be enough until you guys get back. Sara was ready to head up there herself, but there’s no fuckin’ way I’m letting her ass out of my sight.”

“That sounds…fine.”

She swiped the pop across the tip and then her tongue swiped right after it.

“I just wish I could figure out what the hell they’re doing. Lions are their enemies, we should be allies. I’ll talk to the older wolves. See if they can help us out here. And you make sure you watch your back.”

He pushed his bare feet into the carpeted floor. “You got it.”

Zach paused. Then, “You sound distracted. Is she wearing on you?”

Conall gritted his teeth as Miki’s tongue followed wherever she put the ice pop. “You have no idea.”

“I warned you about her. You can do better anyway. She doesn’t deserve you.” Good old supportive Zach with the worst timing ever.

“Is she at least talking to you now?”

Conall’s head fell back as Miki sucked the tip into her mouth, her teeth lightly grazing over the ridges, her tongue swirling over it.