The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 42

Chapter 42

“What, is your subconscious homophobic?” I ask, continuing to be frustrated and a little annoyed at him for not believing me even though I’m telling him the truth and spilling a serious secret for his own good.

Because honestly! I could make out with him here! And I would be the only one who knew that it was real!

I’m doing this for him, to be fair, and yet he persists in not believing me! It’s very rude.

“It might be,” Luca says with a shrug, still looking down at me. “I wouldn’t think that it was, but here you are, still not kissing me, even though I keep trying. Honestly, Ari, being shut down by the figment of my own imagination is very annoying –”

“I’m real!” I insist again, this time through my teeth.

“Prove it,” he says, shrugging.

“Ask me anything!”

“That won’t work,” he says, turning his head to the side. “Anything you say is something I already know or think I know. No way to verify that it’s true.

“Fine,” I say, crossing my arms and lifting my chin. “Ask me something tomorrow, in real life – something impossible, that you’d never predict. I’ll give you the same answer here as I do then.”

Luca turns his head a little, considering. “That could work,” he murmurs, but then he turns back to me with a sly smile. “But in the meantime, you and I could, you know, fool around a little…”

In the distance, my wolf howls with delight.

“Whoa,” Luca says, turning to look for her. “What was that?”

“It was my wolf,” I sigh.

“Really?” he asks, and then the turns back to me, smirking. “Your wolf does…not sound adverse to the idea.” He leans more fully against the tree now, bringing his body closer to mine and kind of pinning me back against the trunk in a way that…

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Chapter 42

That I do not mind at all.

“Luca,” I sigh, and honestly I have to close my eyes as I turn my face away from him, because if I spend even a moment longer looking up at the shadows his long lashes cast against his cheeks…I am definitely going to do something I regret.

“What?” he asks softly, cupping my cheek in his palm and turning my face back to his, his hand and his voice both impossibly gentle. “What do you want, Ari?”

And his question…I know instinctually that there are layers to it. That he’s asking me what I want, but also what I like –

to

I want him to

he presses his mouth hard to mine –

weight deliciously against me, pinning me back against the tree in a way that feels….god, it

“Not that kind of question,” I growl, and

of my cheek. “Real–Ari had my nan’s coffee cake tonight, which

cream,” I answer immediately, “with whipped cream.”

is not fair to be in this dream state

both very clearly

both going to know that it’s

because, I mean, it is a very girly desert. “Of

torso against me for one last second. I hesitate, but then I lift my hands, and let my palms

let myself imagine what his bare skin would feel like under my fingertips.

passes

he

turn my head, and press my eyes shut, and will the dream to end.

and I clench my teeth with a groan, turning and

pillow, feeling sorry for myself, cursing myself vehemently for having a sense of ethics and the willpower to stop Luca from

it I

the hell knows when I’ll have the chance – because Luca, he just wanted to kiss the figment of his imagination that looks like me so he can figure out how he’s feeling. As soon as he realizes that that

going to run screaming from

white duvet, considering it.

I’m just unfairly confusing him because I’m his mate underneath

much as I’m fine with Ben knowing… Luca? My mate? It’s a different story

school, because failing

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the thing I never knew I always wanted: a chance

ready to

for the chance to make

sigh, turning over again in my blankets, and I close my eyes and force myself to try and go back to sleep

Rafe wake up early, some kind of Alpha alarm clock that I was not born with making them rise before sun.

at ‘em, little cousin!” Jesse shouts, throwing a pillow into the open curtain of my nook. I jump and shrick

I growl, pulling the blankets over myself

laughing and yanking my away, making

duvet

sitting up finally when I realize they’re not going to leave me in any peace.

toothbrush as he walks out of the bathroom, brushing as he strides around the room in his underwear, getting ready for the day. “Breakfast all

I pull my boot on I hope that there’s coffee with breakfast – because while dream states do happen while you’re dreaming, I’m not sure that I’d say they let

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