DERRICK POV
*put on speaker Enemy- Imagine Dragons*
I sat at the end of the long table in the main hall of the Fángar library, surrounded by open textbooks, scratched notes, and the irritating clatter of Reyes tapping his pen against his teeth.
From the outside, I probably looked like I was focused—one of the many good little wolves grinding through our required “pack integration and social leadership” case studies. Whatever the hell that meant.
But in truth?
I wasn’t hearing a single word being said by anyone at this table.
All my senses were trained on her.
Kai.
She was exactly twenty-one feet away, diagonally across the main reading room, her back to the bay window. I didn’t need to measure. I just knew. My body tracked her like a goddamn GPS beacon, even when I didn’t mean to.
