The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 48

Chapter 48

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My eyes go wide as I gasp, spinning to see Alvez walking down the hall, completely nonchalant. But that was no ghost, sneaking an intimate touch when my brother’s back was turned.

“What is it?” Rafe asks, turning towards me.

“Sorry, I uh–just saw a spider,” 1 murmur. “Really big one.”

“Gross,” Jesse says, a shiver running through him. I grin at him, because Jesse hates spiders.

“Yeah, let’s get out of here,” Rafe says, nodding towards the elevator at the end of the hall. “Ari and I have to have a chat after all.”

“Really?” Jesse gasps as we step into the elevator. “What about!? Do I get to come. too?”

“No,” Rafe says, slinging an arm around my shoulders and glaring over at our cousin. “Siblings only for this one.”

Jesse hangs his head back as the elevator lifts us swiftly into the air. “That’s so unfair,” he groans. “Come on, I’m basically a sibling – our dads our brothers, our moms are sisters! Genetically, I’m pretty much the same

“Don’t be weird,” Rafe says, glancing over at Jesse with his brows knit as the elevator door opens and we start down the hall.

Jesse continues to complain all the way into the room but Rafe ignores him and I laugh, because Jesse can be such a baby when he doesn’t get his way. But eventually Jesse flops, defeated and depressed to be deprived of the gossip, onto his bed as Rafe pushes me towards the bathroom.

“Rafe, you can pee alone,” I mutter, tossing my chemistry book onto my bed as I

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“This is about secrecy not bodily functions,” he murmurs, shutting the door behind him and leaning back on it. “Which I’d think would be something you appreciated, considering this is a conversation about your mate. So?” He raises an eyebrow at me. “Spill.”

I sigh, closing the lid to the toilet and sitting down on it, taking off my cap and

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taking a moment to massage my sore scalp under its tight braid. Rafe listens quietly and carefully as I tell him everything about Jackson about his apology in the bathroom that allowed me to see a different side of him, my impulsive invitation to breakfast, and then about his waiting to go into his obstacle course. with me, and the hint and the help he gave.

more contemplative than angry, which is probably a good thing. “So,” he says, looking studiously down at the floor with his brows drawn, “do you think he’s like…figured it out? That he’s helping you because he knows you’re his mate?”

being nice to me because he does sense a

the floor a bit. “It’s all just so weird, Ari,” he murmurs, shaking his head. “I don’t know how to

at my brother because it feels

he murmurs, “that’s important. But there’s so much at risk. And he did seriously try to hurt you, which

again. Honestly, if anything, it feels like

you?” Rafe asks, looking up at me. “I mean, that makes sense…the way dad protects

in me at the comparison to dad and mom –

I…just met

And Luca?

my wolf says, prancing gleefully at the thought

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playfully in the rump. She spins in a circle and then trots off, spirits high.

sighs, hanging his head a little with a big sigh. “I’ll try to be nicer. Though it

but a

pee somewhere else, Jesse,” Rafe says, his

Rafe,” Jesse replies,

my cap. Rafe gets to his feet too, but his eyes move immediately

it. “I want to take a

what the seamstress did to my uniform to make it fit better. Rafe starts to strip off

me out of the bathroom, snicking the door shut behind me. “You have a guest, Mr. Clark,” he says, his voice half devious and

gesturing hand towards there door, where I burst into a grin to see the seamstress here in the

me, “I’m so happy to see you! I made some modifications, but, um…” her eyes drift

direction as I take the box from her hands and head for my nook.

seamstress and I stop short in our tracks,

I say, grimacing at my cousin a little as I resume my steps. “I

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my cousin and me. “Oh, a secret

turning away from me, his—- shoulders shaking a little bit. “You can’t do this shit to me and are you serious!? Someone

closer to me as I put the box on my bed

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