Declan's POV I told myself it was just the once. That was the deal I made with myself on the walk over. Once, just to see that she was alright, just to put eyes on her and satisfy the part of my alpha that had been running on bond impressions and second-hand information for two months. Once and then I was done, and I would go back to the west side of campus and my playbook and my very functional life that had absolutely nothing missing from it. I was so full of s**t. The lecture hall was bigger than I expected. Constitutional law, third floor of the law building, was held in one of those rooms that went up in tiers, so the professor looked small from the back row. I slipped in after it had started, which was deliberate as I didn’t want to be noticed, and found a seat at the very

