DERRICK POV
I couldn’t believe my own f*****g eyes.
Freaking Albert Blackwood. Smug bastard. Standing there like he owned the godsdamn place—arms folded, lips curled in that infuriating half-smirk like he just stepped out of a cologne ad. Like he hadn’t just burned everything to the ground and walked away without a scratch.
My heart pounded so hard I couldn’t hear anything else. Rage pulsed through me like a living beast, making my hands twitch and my bones ache. That son of a b***h was in the library. He knew. He had to know.
He had to be the one that got Kai out of the academy. The one who took her from me.
Dalton groaned beside me, barely conscious.
“Sorry, dude,” I muttered, dropping him onto the cold floor. “I’ll be back in a flash.”
Whatever they’d pumped into my veins was not
