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around her.
    "Cold?" Beth mumbled. She found her sunglasses and cried out. "Ah ha!"
    "You left your jacket in your seat," Maria said. "You really are out of it! He must have been great in bed!"
    Beth laughed. "I wish," she said and then groaned. Had she really said that? She hadn't done anything like that. Well, sort of like that, but not— she shook her head. It was cold out. January in Ann Arbor was a miserable time to be in Michigan. Especially for a southern girl like her. Sunglasses in place, she hugged her arms to her chest and rushed back in to get her jacket.
    Beth clenched her teeth and dropped her gaze to the ground when she walked outside the second time. Was the sun always this bright? Especially in the winter hell that Michigan was? She followed the sidewalk and kept her eyes down as much as possible. She was having a hard time adjusting. Probably because she'd tossed and turned the last few nights. Ever since Friday night.
    She kept having dreams about what she'd done with Colin. Most of the time they started out normal enough. Most. The first night her dreams had Colin growing fur and turning into a wolf while she went down on him. She'd woken up gasping for breath and sweating so much she had to throw her sheets off. Sleep had been fitful at best after that.
    Saturday was worse, in her dream he'd been going down on her and a pinch made her open her eyes and look. There he was, covered in fur and grinning with sharp teeth. Blood dripped from his canines. He'd bit her! She gasped and was about to scream when her car shook. She looked up as the door was ripped off and there was the waitress, Penny. She looked the same, with her sexy lingerie and boots and horns. And a car door skidding across the ground behind her. Penny opened her mouth, teeth extending into fangs before she reached for her.
    Carla woke her up, shaking her. Beth had been making noise in that nightmare and it freaked her roommate out. That made for a long and restless night too. Sunday night was better only because she would jerk herself awake every time she was about to fall asleep. She was afraid of what terrors awaited. What Colin or Penny might do to her in her dreams.
    Colin wasn't a werewolf though. She knew that. There was something special about them. Something she couldn't put her finger on, but she could tell. They moved different and had a confidence that wasn't normal. Even Crystal started acting that way before Beth knew she had to get away from her.
    Beth's feet took her where her mind couldn't. She walked through the automatic doors of the stadium and headed for the women's locker room. Once she was out of the sun she breathed a sigh of relief. The nagging pain in her head melted away. She lifted her head and blinked the blurriness out of her eyes. Now all she needed was to get her jacket off and cool down.
    She found a locker and dropped her bag on the bench so she could strip her jacket off. She sighed as the clammy air from the showers mixed with her sweat and cooled her skin. She stripped without bothering to look around, pulling her sweater and jeans off and hanging them from hooks in the locker.
    She bit her lip. She needed to change into her running clothes before anybody got a good look at her, but it felt so good to let her skin air out. She hadn't noticed it at the time, but she'd been burning up. Her headache confused her, or maybe it caused the headache? Was she getting sick, or was this just because she hadn't slept worth a damn.
    Beth pushed her worries aside. She needed to workout. That helped her focus her thoughts and remind her that she worried about too many things. She dug into her bag and slipped her sweatpants and t-shirt on. The sweatshirt wasn't happening, not as warm as she'd been a few moments ago. She felt fine now, but didn't want to run the risk of overheating again.
    Beth shoved her bag into the locker and spun the lock on it. She laced up her shoes and grabbed her water bottle and iPhone. She wasn't