The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 100

It takes me a long time to fall asleep, overwhelmed as I am by my new bond, the closeness of my mate, the secrets that we’ve passed between us that still ring through my mind. But as the minutes pass I feel my eyelids getting heavier and heavier, encouraged by the steady movement of Jackson’s hand over my hair.

When I do finally fall asleep, my head pillowed against Jackso sleep of one who feels both weary and completely safe.

chest, it’s the deep, true

I sleep so deeply that when my eyelids flutter open in the morning, I have…no idea where I am. Even though I am…completely comfortable.

I frown, not understanding, and curl into the warmth of what I assume is my mattress, though it’s a little…firmer than I remember? I’m not sure.

There’s a light chuckle, though, that makes me look up, and my frown deepens as I stare into Jackson’s face before I realize that…

“Oh!” I murmur, sitting up a little. He smiles at me, his hand pressing into my back, encouraging me to lean my head back down against his chest.

“It’s okay,” he murmurs, “take a second to wake up. There’s time.”

I lay my head back down against him, blushing a little as I realize that what I assumed was my mattress is just his body that I’m curled up in his lap, kind of sprawled over his torso, my face tucked against his pectoral –

God, is he really that big, that I can basically use his body as a bed?

Or am I just that small?

I peer up at him again, more awake now, taking a deep breath and raising a hand to rub at

my eye.

Slowly, a smile overtakes his mouth.

“What?” I mutter, shaking my head a little to clear it, a smile pulling at my lips as well

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because…..well, because he’s just staring at me. And it’s kind of nice.

“You’re just so pretty, he whispers, his voice a little awed as he traces his knuckles down the soft skin of my cheek.

I can’t help it then I burst into a brilliant smile.

Because my mate thinks I’m pretty.

him close and pressing

to his, bringing his mouth to mine and kissing me

kiss

–

of the morning than we were last night. There was something freeing about the darkness about knowing that as long as it persisted, there

that there’s light by which we

it’s time to

as I run a hand. through his messy hair, tucking it back

he says, his eyebrows going up, and I can tell

did you know that?” I ask, my eyes going

her,” he murmurs, his finger curling in a

I tilt

my

a smile as the truth hits me. All those nights,

calls only

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is,” I say, looking around the forest, “that my wolf is very obviously a girl wolf, and anyone who sees and smells me will figure it

the same, then,” Jackson says, starting to stand up and ridiculously bringing me with him, setting me on my feet only when he’s fully standing. “We’ll only

lip, looking up at him. “I mean, are we going

to look north. “The only people who would have made it to the mountain and been able to climb it in the night would have been…well, the best of Warrior Track.

you’re saying is….if I hadn’t been. weighting you down, you’d already be across

scooping me up in his arms instead and turning met in a slow circle as he presses one

puts me back on his feet and we begin to assess our plan and our few possessions. We quickly share the water, though I insist Jackson drink the majority of it – I got some liquids out of the fruit, after all- and

this?” I ask quietly.

–

shrugging and making a snap decision as he likewise tosses his backpack into the brush. “We need to move fast now any extra weight is a detriment. Besides,” he bends over, scooping my discarded hat out of the dust where we left it last night and holding it out to me, “I’m your weapon now.”

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hair onto my

smirks, helping me tuck the last strands of my hair beneath the brim. “Where on earth did

lofty, as we both turn away from the plateau, and start out in the blue light of the morning.

I forget,” he murmurs behind me, “melter of very tiny

which is barely a path and more of a lucky outcropping of rock. I marvel again at Jackson’s sense of balance, as well as the fact that he

cadets. I wonder, passively, whether those

go check,” Jackson says, looking forward through

turning