The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

My hands curl into fists in my side as I glare at my father, my jaw set.

Chapter 0217

I’m well, well aware that I’m supposed to quail under the look my father is leveling at me now – that it’s sent many big tough Alphas running for the hills.

But, well, I’m my father’s daughter, aren’t I?

And I am not giving in that easily. No way in hell.

“I’m going back, dad,” I growl, my voice matching his own even though it’s several octaves higher. “You can’t stop me.”

“The hell I can’t – ”

“I have worked too hard!” I shout, getting up on my knees and leaning towards him now. “I have been busting my ass at that school, proving myself! I –”

you, Ariel!” my dad shouts back, leaning in so that our faces are only inches apart.

didn’t I!?” I whip my finger up between us, a move I’ve seen my mom make a thousand times, but my dad just swats it away. “I’m proving myself, dad. I already

I’ve beat forty percent of the men who have been training just as

speaks the words. He groans again as he pictures it, straightening up and closing his eyes against the mental image. “I cannot, in

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of the education,” I say, sitting back on my

His

needing to make the point anyway. “He’s small, but he’s smart. And he’s earned his place there. You can’t take this away from me not when I…” I hesitate now, biting my lip. “Not when it’s the only life I

side. And despite his actions, I know he’s hearing me – I know he’s listening. He just really,

to look at her, keeping my eyes on him. “You’re being if she was a boy; or, hell, if she was more of a dad than a military commander right now anyone else’s girl…you’d let her go

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sexist.” My eyes go wide as I turn to stare at Aunt Cora, and my dad and mom do the same. She just shrugs, her chin high as she stares him down. “I’ve said from the start that this school was on the wrong side of it to only let in boys. It’s been running for more than twenty years now, and you