The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 74

“Luca,” I growl, shoving uselessly at his shins, “let me up.”

Luca just glares at Jackson at the door and then over at me. He can come to you, Luca says. into my mind, possessive and predatory. I narrow my eyes at him, pissed.

But there’s no time to think any more about it, because suddenly Jackson’s smokey pine scent strengthens and I look up to see him at my side.

“Here,” Jackson says, holding out the note to me and looking between Luca and I curiously. He frowns, a little, when he notices Luca’s legs stretched out over my lap.

“Thanks, Jacks,” I say, smiling up at him.

“Jacks?” Luca asks, and I turn to see him raising an eyebrow, his eyes flicking between the two of us. “What, the two of you are on like…a nickname basis now?”

The room is silent for a long, awkward moment as my two mates glare at each other and my cheeks go red. Honestly, I hadn’t even noticed that I’d given Jackson a nickname it all happened very naturally.

“Yeah, I guess we are, Grant,” Jackson says, his voice quiet and dangerous.

–

The room returns to its awkward silence as I lower the note to my lap and awkwardly stare at it, not knowing what to do or how to mediate this. Because obviously, obviously I’m the cause of all of this and I’m the only one who knows it.

–

“Well, I for one like it!” Jesse says, grinning at the drama and leaning against the doorframe. “Are you sure you won’t stay for dinner, Jacks?”

I flick my eyes to my cousin, grateful.

“Nah,” Jackson says with a sigh before reaching out a hand and giving me a warm pat on the shoulder. I look up in surprise at the touch, and then grin at him, unable to help it. He smiles back before he turns and heads towards the door. “A little…crowded in here, as it is.”

Ben and Rafe call their goodbyes as Jesse ushers Jackson out the door, telling him to come

Luca is noticeably silent as I unfold my

it?” Rafe asks, leaning towards me, almost as if he is trying to see the

energy as best I can.

office

relaxing instantly and turning back to

the note and tucking

marble. I mean, I’m sure mom hired him for

guys talking about?” Luca asks, frowning and looking between

intending to tell Luca the truth, but I speak

eyebrows in surprise that I want to keep

say cagily, looking between Rafe and Jesse. “It’s not right to

Luca says, sighing and holding up his hands..

not care,” Ben murmurs from his place by the fire, and a grin breaks onto my face at his exhausted tone. “And, further, that if any of you have any pain killers….it would be great if you crushed them up and

for

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to,” Lauca says casually, giving me a smirk. But in my mind, he takes a different tact. Don’t think we’re

nod, and send back an impression of the dream state, letting him know that we can

closes his eyes, and

how

newly mated, after all, which is apparently a very volatile

– he has

of them – but doing that opens a whole can of worms that I’m not sure I’m ready to face just yet. I mean, I haven’t even let Jackson know that I’m a girl yet, let

a circle in my soul. We should

a hand over her silky fur. And we will…we just…we need more. time.

–

I’m right that I’m trying to balance too much, and

fall asleep, eager to meet my one mate who knows