The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

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My scream only intensifies, combining with my moan of pain as I grab my leg and fall to the forest floor. I’m panting with agony as I lay in the dirt and the leaves, my eyes pressed shut for a moment before I glance down at my leg, my hands quickly coating in my own blood as they go directly to the wound

Trying to do something, to end the pain, to apply pressure, something –

But there’s nothing – god, I think the bolt hit bone, I think it cracked it

I’m still moaning horribly when a shadow falls over me, and I look frantically up to see Wright standing above me, drawing back the crossbow’s string, that ugly sneer still on his face, though mixed with victory now.

“You deserve this,” he snarls, glaring down at me. “Every inch of pain – laying in the dirt. finally recognizing your failure – you’re nothing but a dirty cheat –”

“Please,” I beg, gasping for breath as he loads another bolt and raises the crossbow towards me. “Please, don’t –”

“Save it,” he snaps, pointing the crossbow directly at me, and then without another word he pulls the trigger again, sending a bolt directly into my gut.

The pain is…blinding this time.

I scream again, but I must pass out from it

Honestly, did I die? I might have died, a little bit

But when I open my eyes again, the forest is fuzzy above me, and there’s a dark form looming over me, shouting my name.

I flinch away, screaming again, and a hand goes fast over my mouth before a hand slips under my head, cradling it.

-Who did this to you!?”

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1 blink, trying to clear my head as I recognize Jackson’s voice, but then I moan and let my head fall back- because the clearer my mind gets, the more I feel the pain.

“Ari!” Jackson shouts, and suddenly he’s on the ground next to me, pulling me into his lap. “Ari, who did this!?”

I almost scream again as the movement jostles my stomach, and my hand moves to the bolt of wood that’s protruding from my gut, that aches with every movement.

“I’m sorry,” Jackson murmurs, and I blink again, trying to focus, trying to look up into his face. His voice – it’s so tight, so full of pain. Did he did he get shot too? But as my eyes focus on his face I see that his pain is all desperate agony for me. “Ari,” he murmurs, his hand shaking as he cups my cheek. “Who did it?”

“Wright.” I murmur, shaking my head.

his head snapping up, sniffing the air like he’d go after him right

my hands fisted in his shirt. Because I

don’t need –

my head spins, the pain

I don’t need revenge right now. If by some miracle I’m going to survive,

head up at him.

from

going to get you out of this, Ari,” he whispers, his voice

fervent, either believing him or…or not wanting him to believe that I’m going to

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as I feel my

into his face as I realize that I almost passed

frowning a

to my surprise, Jackson rips open the top button of my shirt and presses his hand flat to my chest. Then,

body, not with his hand. But with his….his

–

of power. I gasp, my

but it sure as hell wakes me up. I stare up at him,

your healing?” he asks, his voice sharper than it was before. “Your…your wolf healing.

I say, glancing down at myself, knowing that even though wolf healing is fast it’s not fast enough

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magic, Ari as much of it as you can hold. I think I think with the connection between our magic, it will help speed your own magic, the healing included.

hesitates, not wanting to say

I know precisely what he means.

stands, pulling me up with him in his arms. I moan again, almost a scream, as he does. But he continues, staring down at me as I pant through. the pain, eventually opening my eyes to look up into him. “I’m getting you out, okay?” he whispers, his

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can feel everything down the bond all his worry, all his grief that he just found me, that he could lose me so soon. But, above all, his sheer determination to make me live

to him, letting him feel my faith.

despite the odds,

trees. He doesn’t bother, anymore,

even as my mind passes from state to state, concentrating on the pain and then concentrating on the

eyes wide. I look around at all of them through half–lidded eyes, my

–

shock and their awe, I can tell that the two of us make

Academy, especially enraged like this, covered in blood,

with anger. As I glance up I can see Jackson’s canines sharpening to points,