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reaction with a waved hand in dismissal. “I’ll explain it one time, when I tell Houston,” she told them briskly, warning neither to prod.
    “Wow, it’s got to be a story.”
    He saw her flick a single worried glance into the room, knowing she saw nothing. She slipped her bottom lip in between her teeth, rolling it. He could feel her fear resurfacing, not from his growing hungers for her touch, but from the evidence of how determined Brakka could be. The door was charred and shredded. It had been solid oak, prided by the hotel. They had been done individually for the suites.
    “Do not worry. He is gone, and I am with you.”
    Her mouth popped open, but she caught herself in time. She spoke to David. “Come on. This is going to really upset Houston.”
    “Who’d you piss off?” Justin asked, taking up one side while David walked on the other. Her mouth clamped shut. When she said she was not going to talk, she meant it. Diego trailed them silently. He realized all the members of her group must know of Titania’s gifts and protected her accordingly. It did not appease his worries in the least. Any number of them would not stop Brakka.
    They went down the hall to another door, and Houston opened at their knock. He stood staring at her for several seconds before letting the group in.
    “Your bruises!” Laney cried, her tone incredulous.
    Titania rolled a shoulder. “I’m fine.”
    Houston stiffened. “Leather,” he said, a snarled warning, his gaze hunting around the room.
    “What are you cursing about now?” Laney asked, taking a chair while the guys sat on the bed and Titania took the second chair in the suite.
    “Nothing.” But his expression remained wary. “What happened now?”
    Titania didn’t evade. “I have another problem. The fight I broke up the other night, the loser wants to kill me.”
    Houston exploded, just as Diego had expected he would. He spun, his gaze furious, finding Titania and nailing her down to the chair. “What did you say?”
    She crossed her arms and glared at him. “Don’t. I had to stop it. If you yell at me now, I will walk out and not talk to you for a week.”
    “You sure have become a beacon for trouble,” David teased. Justin poked him in the ribs with an elbow. “Well, it’s true. You gotta see the door. Man, Houston, it looks like someone tried to peel it.”
    “He was at your room!” Houston thundered. Titania shot David a quelling look for his offered opinion of the condition of her room door. Houston barged out into the hall, marching to her room. Diego caught it when Titania rolled her eyes in exasperation at his anger. David held up his hands when Titania shoved him out of her way.
    “You better stay here, David,” Laney advised with a knowing stare at the pair when he rose for the door. Diego noticed Justin watching them leave, not attempting to follow. “You know you don’t want to be between them when they start.”
    David grudgingly sank back to the bed, and Diego followed after a trotting Titania.
    “Hell,” Houston breathed. Diego winced, seeing the charred and raked door up close. “They better not try to make us pay for this,” he muttered. Diego slid past them under the door, entering the room first when Houston waved for her to go in.
    Titania opened the door with her pass key, Houston only a pace behind her. Houston planted his palm on her stomach, slamming her back to the wall behind him, a startled squawk gasping out of her at the impact. Houston’s lips lifted in a silent snarl. “Someone’s been in here.” His gaze raked the room for the intruder.
    Diego reacted, protective rage obscuring reason. In less than a second, he was visible, lethal. He launched at Houston, pinning him to the wall, his arm shoved against Houston’s throat. “Touch her like that again, and I will not just stop you,” Diego threatened, his voice low, vibrating with suppressed fury. “I will kill you.”
    Houston snarled angrily even as Diego jammed