Page 247 of His Hungry Wolf

But what did I know? And who am I to talk? I fell for Kendall and he was probably as human as Lou. Hell, I was the last person who should be talking about what works and what doesn’t in relationships.

Parking in front of Quin’s fancy dorm room, we headed up and were greeted by Lou.

“You brought the criminal,” he said staring at me. “What did it end up being? Armed robbery? A B&E?”

“How do you know what a B&E is?” Titus asked.

“I watch Law and Order. I know things.”

Quin interjected. “I don’t think Nero wants to talk about it. So…”

“It was a classic smash and grab wasn’t it? Look, don’t think because you have this whole bad boy wolf shifter thing going on you’re going to get me to fall in love with you. I like nice guys.”

I opened my mouth to reply.

“Okay fine, we can go out. But if you get me pregnant after a drunken night of lovemaking, I’m having the baby and I’m not raising him alone.”

I looked at Lou stunned and then laughed. We all did.

“I’m serious, Mister. I’m not raising Nero Jr. by myself.”

“Okay, I promise,” I told him suddenly feeling better about things.

Titus spoke up. “Now that we got that settled, how does everyone feel about a game of Wavelength until Cage gets here?”

Wavelength was our go-to Sunday night game as we waited for Cage.

Pairing up, Titus grabbed Lou, of course, and I partnered with Quin. Playing a couple of rounds, things were good. Then Cage arrived.

My brother was pissed. I couldn’t blame him.

“Why the hell did you smash up a campus security car?”

“It was a campus security car?” I asked.

“You didn’t know?”

“It wasn’t like I was targeting anybody. I was just mad. Would you have preferred that I shift and kill a bunch of people instead?”

Cage froze and stared at me. He had shifted for the first a lot later than most wolves and that was less than a year ago. And although his wolf was the most powerful I had ever fought, he didn’t pretend to know everything there was to being a shifter. So when he spoke again, he was a lot calmer.

“What were you mad about?”

“Nothin’,” I said really not wanting to talk about it.

“Don’t want to say, huh? Well, you’re gonna have to talk about it. The school’s willing to let you pay for it instead of pressing charges.”

“I don’t have the money.”

“You’re the one who destroyed it. You’re going to be the one to pay for it.”

“I could lend you it,” Quin volunteered.

“I don’t need your money,” I snapped.

“Watch it, Nero. He’s just trying to help.”

“I don’t need his help. I don’t need anyone’s help.”