CHAPTER 24The phone rang and jolted Kira awake. She groaned as it rang a couple more times, and then the computer picked it up, silencing it. She groaned again and covered her head with her pillow, trying to squeeze the daylight out.. Damn telephones, she thought. I should set it to pick up on the first ring instead of the third. As she woke slowly, her mind went back to the events of the night before. She had nearly been r***d — in wolf form, to be sure — but nearly r***d. She was puzzled by her lack of response to it. As a human, she’d be in need of some serious counseling that her COBRA insurance wouldn’t cover — no doubt — and she’d be a mental wreck. Instead, the werewolf part of her was slowly changing her response. Okay, so she was nearly r***d, but Alaric was there and got her out

