The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 41

When I next open my eyes, I’m half unsurprised to see that it’s the golden–leafed birch forest.

I groan a little, covering my face with my hands even as excitement runs through me. Because – I mean – I’m only here because I want to be, right? The dream state only appears if you call for it, call for your mate to meet you here.

Right! My wolf shouts. He’s coming too!

“Oh no oh no,” I murmur, dragging my hands down my face and looking around for him. I mean, it’s all getting very real now-

Luca is clearly figuring out that something is up with these dreams

And the way he put his hand on my calf tonight? And subtly mentioned dreams, watching me as he did?

God damn it, but we are getting into some tricky territory.

“Hello?” his voice rings through the forest. “Shrimp, are you here?”

My wolf gives several happy yips of excitement as I put my hands on my hips, looking down at my nightgown, my hair falling over my shoulders.

You can end it if you want toooo, my wolf says, her voice sing–song. But you don’t

want too00.

“God damn it,” I growl to myself, but when I lift my head I’m laughing a little too.

Because I really, really do not want to end this dream.

And so instead I will my clothes to change, my nightgown shifting into the black pants and top of an Academy cadet, my hair tucking itself away under the standard black cap – which is optional for cadets, but which I will never be without.

And then I step out from behind my tree and into the clearing. “Over here, Grant,” I shout, my voice a little tired.

I see him immediately as he spins around, his eyes catching on me at once in the clearing. He smirks as he starts to walk over to me. “What is this place,” he says, and I can tell he’s a little bit thrilled to be here too, which makes me smile. My

I mean, at least he’s happy to see me. “I never, ever have a dream about the same person in the same location.”

look all around at the beautiful trees, the strange ambient lighting that seems to have no source, the fog that floats around at the edges and by our feet. “Where do you usually dream about

like, on Mars or in the Roman Empire –” he stops suddenly and turns his face back to mine. “Nicely done, Shrimp. Maybe you’ll make a good little spy

at

taking a step closer to me. “Is there anything to do here? Or do we just…hang

no here,” I say with a sigh, looking up into his gorgeous face, “so, we

eyes, tightening my arms around each other so that I resist each and every urge

Luca murmurs, taking another step closer and reaching out a hand towards my arm –

gasp, flinching away.

the distance. “Seriously, Shrimp – you’re a figment of my imagination – why on earth are you playing

grit my teeth at him, glaring a little. “I’m not playing,

on my upper arms, his fingers wrapping around the back and slowly sliding down towards my elbows. “Honestly, it’s just an experiment – I have got to figure out what this bizarre attraction to you is

–

appear in the air – the embodiment of the…whatever it is between us that happens when we touch. “What if

could it not be?” he murmurs, pulling me a little closer

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it’s just too hard to resist. I

I’m weak with wanting him, being the

looking up at him with wide eyes as one of his arms slips around my back.

and tightening his arms around me until I’m pressed warmly to his chest, my head. bending back on my neck so that I can look up

a spot on his waist, my fingers curling into the fabric there. And I can’t help it, I give in.

cousins,” he murmurs, smirking down at me, his hand brushing again over my cap like it did this afternoon after I’d entered the doors to the academy, though this time his palm drifts down the back of my neck, making me shiver. “How to like, get you to come see my room you alone for ten fucking

shaking my head, “and what

get

you

have no idea, Ari – I just can’t stop

roiling

I mean, I’m tortured by the impossibility of our connection

but at

I murmur, shaking my head and dropping my eyes, pulling away a little. “This

“God, Ari, if I only get you in this weird dream, at least let me

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