Bria laid on my desk on the brink of an orgasm, with her body tensed and her eyes squeezed closed. I paused right before she came, feeling my wolf about to break free and gain control of me. And I knew that if I heard that pretty mouth saying my name while her legs trembled around my shoulders, fuck, I'd lose it.

I'd transform into my beast right here and right now in front of a human.

"More," Bria breathed out, her voice so raspy.

Hell, I wanted to make her scream my name so fucking bad that it hurt me to pull away.

"Bria, you have to leave," I said, staring down at the wooden floor between her legs. No matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't look up at her pleading eyes or listen to her breathy moans any longer. I was moments from shifting with all these fucking students outside and Bria here with me.

She leaned back on her forearms. "Is something wron—"

"Now, Bria. Get out." I quickly stood and turned my back to her so she couldn't see the canines in my mouth or my golden eyes. If I scared her off now, she might not want to mate me, and if she didn't want to mate me, then my wolf would force himself on her.

I knew he'd do it, too.

He had been waiting for her since we were eighteen, for twenty-five fucking years.

Bria jumped off the desk and pushed down her skirt. When she went to pull up her panties, I gripped them in my hand and ripped them right off her. "Mine," I growled, my control slipping.

They snapped around her thighs, leaving light red marks. She stared at me with wide eyes, then hurried toward my office door. "I'm sorry," she said breathlessly. "I shouldn't have come. This was wrong."

I wanted to tell her that none of this was wrong, that I was just about to lose control, but I couldn't speak again without knowing that my wolf wouldn't say anything to her or transform. So, I let her slip out and shut the door behind her.

As soon as she disappeared, I growled and grabbed my desk, drawing my claws across the top of it to please my wolf just a bit. Something to distract him, something to keep him here so he wouldn't run after Bria.

Though... I could still smell her. Everything was so much more intensified.

"Find mate now."

Growling again, I flipped the desk, pulled books off shelves, stuffed my nose in The Red Hammer that she returned earlier. I needed to make sure that I gave Bria enough time to get back home safe before I ran out of here.

Run.

I needed to run. I needed to get off this campus. I needed to get away.

If I stayed here a moment longer, I'd follow her scent back to her dorm room and do more than just rip off another pair of panties to stuff into my office desk. But the way she looked without them, the way her cunt smelled, the way her silkiness felt in my hand...

Fuck.

After checking down the halls for any human students and not sensing any, I hurried out through the halls with my canines extended far past my lips and my claws lengthened all the way. When I opened one of the many back doors, I collapsed onto all fours and transformed into my wolf, forcing myself to ignore Bria's lingering scent and run back to my packhouse.

And that's what I did... I ran fucking fast through the wet forest, ignoring the foul scents around me. All I could focus on was getting home... until I came face to face with Alpha Adan of the Goldtooth Pack, a vicious man who had done far worse than kill innocent humans to get what he wanted. And now he was on my land, wanting something from me.