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being scared. Tired of running from her problems, even if today’s current problem outweighed her at least two to one. From the feel of him, he was six-foot plus and a good two hundred pounds. “You want to let me up now, I’ll get my purse. Show you some ID.”
    A hard, mean smile creased those sexy lips of his. “I’m not ready to let you up, baby,” he said, making the innocuous words sound like the dirtiest of promises. Shamefully, she felt an unexpected dampness slick her sex. She couldn’t possibly be attracted to this Neanderthal.
    “The hell you’re not.” She focused on the noise outside. The snap-crackle-and-pop was louder now, but she didn’t know if campus security was up to this job.
    He rolled, taking her with him, tucking her into the protective shadow of his body as he rose smoothly to his feet in a half crouch. One large hand reached down toward her and stopped.
    “Zer.” That grunt must have counted as an introduction in his book. No one had ever accused the Fallen of having manners. She didn’t like lying flat on her back, staring up at him, so she sat up. He was watching her, and the look in his eye said she was prey.
    “So, Zer, why are you here?” She waved a hand around the carnage of her lecture hall. “If you’d wanted to audit my course, you’d have come to my office hours.” And she would have made him ask nicely. No. Scratch that. She would have made him beg. She suspected no one had the upper hand around this Zer, but she’d take whatever opportunities life handed her.
    His eyes assessed the smashed-in door. “We need to get out of here.”
    For once, they were in agreement. She thought of her ruined lecture, the screaming students, and decided that she’d had enough of his alpha-male crap for one afternoon. He could kill her and get it over with, or he could damn well let her go.
    “I agree,” she said, ignoring his hand and shoving to her feet. “I’m done here. You’re done here. I suggest you head on out that door you stove in and explain to campus security what was undoubtedly a very good reason for acting like a complete Neanderthal. In the meantime, I’m going to leave through the other door and see if there’s anything salvageable of this day.”
    “No,” he said in that low, raspy growl of a voice. “I can’t let you do that, baby.”
    She’d play his game. “Why not?”
    Explanations were clearly killing him. Not a big one for talking, she decided, or he just couldn’t be bothered wasting words on her.
    “Come with me,” he demanded.
    She ran through a list of possible reasons to walk out of there with him and came up blank. “No.”
    When he reached for her again, she scrambled backward.
    “Listen to me,” he said, and she got the impression that he would only explain once. He didn’t strike her as the negotiating type of guy. No, he’d take what he wanted, and if she couldn’t stop him, he’d figure he was right. “I need you to come with me. Right now.”
    Damn it, where was campus security? They were supposed to keep her safe . When she was finished here, she’d be having words with the dean about this situation.
    When she flinched, the Fallen pulled back his hand, crossing his arms over that broad chest of his. The soft cotton of his black T-shirt pulled over impossibly large muscles. Her unwanted companion was seriously built.
    “You know what I am, right?” the male asked her.
    “Besides an unwelcome intrusion breaking up my afternoon lecture?” When he gave her that cold-eyed stare of his, she decided it might be wiser to humor him. “You’re a Goblin.” She shrugged and assessed the distance to the door. She wouldn’t make it before he’d be on her. Unfortunately. “You’re one of the Fallen.”
    He nodded, as if she was a particularly gifted student. Straining her senses, she listened intently. The sounds of panicked, fleeing students had faded, but she should have been hearing the heavy thud of booted feet as campus