Kat slowly opened her eyes, blinking at the bright morning light warming Zach's room. Looking at the arm wrapped around her waist, she smiled at the handsome sleeping Alpha who had her tucked securely by his side. "Get up, sleepy head."

Zach groaned, pulling her body closer to his and burying his head in her neck.

Kat giggled before she rubbed her hand up and down his arm. Catching the clock on his nightstand, she sighed. "Come on, wake up."

"Shh." Zach tightened his hold on her. "Go back to sleep, baby."

Kat's core clenched involuntarily at the roughness of his morning voice. She knew she was pushing her luck, staying in Zach's room more than was necessary, but last night she was too exhausted to consider moving back to her dorm. She knew they both needed to spend the night in each other's arms, to fight the demons that Peter had awakened in them. "I have a lecture in an hour, Zach."

Zach opened his eyes and pulled back enough for her to see his frown. "You want to go school?"

Kat blinked. "You don't?"

"Are you serious?" He stiffened, sleep long forgotten.

So he didn't. Well, this was going to be harder than she thought. "I can't just not go, Zach."

Zach pushed himself up on an elbow. "Your life is in danger, rogues want to kill you, and you want to go back to school?"

"Baby," Kat started carefully, "you know that I can handle myself. And yes, I'm aware that rogues are after me, but I'm going to be on campus with a thousand other students, security guards, and my friends too. What kind of a stupid rogue would try to attack me there?"

Zach scoffed. "So you want me to leave it to their plan-making skills?"

Kat sighed. She had guessed that this was going to happen sooner or later, yet she understood that the need to protect her was overwhelming him. "I can't just put my whole life on pause. Especially when we have no plan to fix this yet."

Zach still needed to talk with his father and get some answers about the whole soul'slink thing, as urgently as he needed to start figuring out what they were going to do about the rogues. He had no idea when or where they were planning on attacking her again, but what he knew for sure was that he needed to do everything he could to protect her. "I'll figure it out. Just give me some time, Kat."

"It's okay." She moved a hand to caress his cheek. "We can meet tonight and discuss everything thoroughly."

Zach frowned. What the fuck was she talking about? "Are you planning on going somewhere else that I'm not aware of?"

Kat swallowed. There goes nothing, she thought. "Well, I have to go back to my dorm sooner or later. But I'll come by for a couple of hours this evening."

Zach stared at her in horror. "Are you fucking kidding me right now?"

Kat pursed her lips together and shook her head.

Shooting out of bed, Zach glared at her. "Your life is in fucking danger, and you wanna leave the pack house, which is the most secured place on my territory, to go back to your damn dorm?"

"I can't just stay here forever, Zach." Kat pulled herself to a sitting position, ignoring the fact that he was in nothing but a pair of sweatpants.

"You're not going." Zach announced, dead serious. She was not putting herself in risk. The thought alone had his wolf howling in worry and his heart pouding in fear.

Kat's brows shot up, giving him a challenging look. "Are you gonna lock me inside if I insist?"

Zach clenched his jaw. He had to be careful or she would hand him his ass if he crossed the line, he knew. He had to talk to her, to convince her somehow, instead of using his authority as Alpha that he knew did shit with her.

"Listen," Kat took a deep breath and walked to where he was standing. "I don't want to argue."

"Then fucking don't." Zach hissed. "Why do you suddenly want to leave? We were fine last night. Are we moving too quickly for you? I can sleep in a different room if you want."

Zach had never been one to talk as much as he found himself doing whenever she was near. With her, he was entirely different. Lighter, happier, better. And the thought of him going back to the person he used to be before her fisted his loudly beating heart.

Kat's eyes softened. "That's not it."

"Then what is it?" Zach frowned, his hands grabbing her waist and pulling her closer. "Why do you want to go all of a sudden?"

"Because it doesn't make sense for me to stay here. I only stayed because I wasn't well, and you helped me heal, but I'm all good now." Kat tried to explain but when he flinched she knew she used the wrong words.

"So that's the only reason why you stayed?" Zach stepped away, angry now. "Then why the hell did you stay last night? I knew this was bound to happen. You said you wouldn't fucking leave!"

"That came out wrong." Kat stepped closer again. "Listen to me. I'm not leaving you. I'm just going back to my dorm, that's all. It's on campus and I'll still be safe there."

"But why?" Zach ran a hand through his head in frustration, panic blooming inside his chest. "Is it because I make out with you all the time? I'll stop if you want me to."

Kat's brows shot up again. "Stop then, I dare you." If he even tried, she would murder him. She just wanted her old life back, with Zach in it.

Zach blinked. "I'm so fucking confused right now."

Kat sighed, and took another step closer to him, her chest now touching his. "Nothing will change between us if I go, Zach, but we can't just live together; that's insane. We still have a lot to figure out. We haven't even known each other for that long."

"But I don't want you to go. I want you to stay here with me, where you'll be safe and I'll be okay." Zach wrapped his arms tightly around her figure, afraid she might just vanish into thin air. She was trying to take a step back from him, a defense mechanism he now realized she usually did whenever her feelings for him overwhelmed her.

"I just don't want to rush things." Kat admitted quietly.

"We'll take it slow, then. Slower. I don't know how but we'll try. I just want to come home to you every night and find you in my damn bed wearing nothing but my shirt, Kat. Just stay."

Kat frowned, his words tugging at her heart, her emotions clouding over her logic once again. She enjoyed spending time with him, and absolutely loved sleeping in his arms. She had honestly never known such peace like she did whenever she drifted to sleep with his arms wrapped around her tightly. But he was technically asking her to move in with him, and they still had so many things to figure out.

When Zach noticed her frown and could practically see the wheels spinning in her brain, he connected his lips to her neck, softly kissing the spot he knew drove her mad. "Just stay."

Kat's eyes rolled back and a moan escaped her when his tongue licked her senstive spot. Oh, he was evil.

Zach tightened his hold around her and bit down on her neck gently, earning himself another loud whimper. Caressing her skin with a lick of his tongue, he felt a shiver run down her body. "Stay with me."

"Zach." Kat moaned again, her legs suddenly wobbling as she held onto his shoulders harder.

Zach moved his hands across her ass and pulled her up. Walking to the bed, he laid her down gently, his mouth never pausing its assault. He moved his hands beneath her shirt and rested them on her bare waist. Biting her neck once more Zach felt her hips fighting against his hold. "Don't walk away from me, Kat."

"Please," She was out of breath and soaking wet for him. There they were a minute ago talking about taking it slow, and there they were now ready to tear each other's clothes off. But once his hand moved higher to cup her breast under her shirt, Kat knew she was too high on his pleasure to argue anymore.

"Say you'll stay with me." Zach released a groan, his hard length throbbing against his boxer breifs, visible through his sweatpants. His hand kneaded her breast, having pleasure in feeling it against his palm, before he softly pinched her pointed nipple.

"Zach, please." Kat squirmed in need as Zach twisted her nipple between his fingers before abandoning her breast completely. She was about to protest when she felt his fingers hook the band of her underwear and shove it down to the middle of her thighs.

"Tell me you're not going anywhere." Zach demanded again, a groan escaping his throat the second his finger felt her wetness. "You're soaking for me, baby."

"Dammit, Zach, come on." Kat whined, her hips arching closer to the fingers that kept teasing her opening but never moving inside.

"Promise me I'll come home to you every night." His mouth moved south to her top of her breast, visible through the low cut of his Tshift that she was wearing, while his fingers pressed down on her clit for a second too short.

"Shit, okay! I'll stay, Zach, I promise!" Kat's hands pulled at the sheets in desperation, and she couldn't help but scream in pleasure when he suddenly shoved two fingers inside her needy core.

"That's my girl." Zach purred in approval, feeling her inner walls with his fingers before he pulled them back out, only to push them inside her again. Finding a comfortable rhythm, Zach pumped his fingers in and out of her, enjoying the loud moans she tried to keep at bay until he had her panting on the bed with sweat breaking on her forehead. Pulling his fingers to his mouth, Zach licked them clean. "As sweet as I remember."

Kat tried to catch her breath but when she saw Zach suck on his fingers with his eyes closed, she crawled out of bed. "My turn."

Zach was sitting on the edge of the bed when he opened his eyes to see Kat get on her knees between his legs. Her hands traveled to the waistband of his sweatpants and he lifted his hips up so she could pull them off.

Not waisting time, Kat tugged his boxer breifs down his legs as well and he kicked them off. Her eyes scanned every naked inch of him and she purred in both pleasure and approval. He was long and heavy and gorgeous. "I don't care who interrupts us this time, I'm not stopping."

"Thank fuck." The second he felt her small soft hand wrap around his hard shaft, Zach let out a loud groan.

Kat moved a hand to the base of his length, squeezing lightly before she used her other hand for the upper half of him, shaking her head at his size. Whenever they were ready for sex, this was going to hurt like hell, she knew. Moving her hands up and down, Kat watched as Zach struggled with his hips not to create a rhythm of their own. "Zach?"

"Yeah, baby?" Opening his eyes, Zach barely whispered out.

"You do know that I'm still going to school, right?" Kat asked with a smirk, using his own tactics against him, never once stopping her hands from moving. Zach snarled at her and she gave the head of his length a soft peck. "Come on, now. We have to compromise. I'll stay here, but I'm still going to school."

Zach narrowed his eyes at her. This woman was truly going to be the end of him. Letting out another growl, Zach shut his eyes and nodded his head, desperate to have her mouth on him already.

"Perfect." Kat beamed before lowering her head and giving the tip another kiss. Zach hissed, encouraging her to continue, and she did. Removing one hand, Kat licked him from the base all the way to the tip before wrapping her lips around it.

"Fuck, just like that." Zach's eyes rolled to the back of his head the second he felt himself surrounded by her wet, warm mouth. Moving her head up and down, Kat tried to fit as much of his length as possible in her mouth, her hand working the same rythm at his base. "Your mouth feels so fucking good, Kat."

Zach could feel his fangs starting to shape in his mouth and he groaned. The pleasure Kat was giving him was too much for him to try and control anything other than erupting down her throat right now. Opening his eyes wide, Zach caught her gaze as she moved her head up and down on him and he clenched onto the sheets desperately at the sight. The hazel in her eyes darkened once she saw his fangs and she worked him even faster. A second later a knock on the door had his eyes leave Kat and snap towards it.

"Fuck off!" Zach roared loudly at whoever was at the door, his command crystal clear, and when Kat heard hurried steps walking away down the hall she couldn't help but moan around him, the sound vibrating through his shaft. The authority he had, the power, the dominance, were driving Kat insane with her need for him.

Zach was driving her crazy. One minute they were arguing, the other they were all over each other. One minute she was trying to be strict and take things slow, the next he had her panting and soaking wet. Her feelings for him were getting stronger every second and she had never felt more out of control than she did with him. Luckily enough, she loved every damn second of it.