Third Person POV He almost laughed when he didn’t see Derrick or Dalton walk into class. After the circus in the library—always knew team effort was going to pay back- after the snarling, the blood, the elite guards storming in like a war parade and the beautiful disaster that was Alpha Leo’s collapse, he thought things couldn’t possibly turn out better for him. He had been wrong. So blissfully, delightfully wrong. Kai was under heavy guard now, confined to the safety of her new little room, protected by wolves who thought he was going to be the next ruler . Safe , sound, his. And Derrick and Dalton? Detained. In the King’s own dungeon. How poetic. How absolutely perfect. He leaned back in his seat, lips twitching upward as Professor Garrett droned on, talking about mating bonds or

