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 –”

shouts back, leaning in so that our faces are only inches apart.

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 beat

percent of the candidate class getting into the school, and now I’ve beat forty percent of the men who have been training just as hard as me! You cannot discount me and say that I haven’t earned my spot!”

dad says, and his anger snaps a little as he speaks the words. He groans again as he pictures it, straightening up and closing his eyes against the mental image. “I

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the only people who are worthy of the education,” I say, sitting back on my butt and crossing my arms as I glare

His

to stare at me, and then they narrow. “You know that’s not what I mean.” “In this school I am not your daughter – I’m Ari Clark, who is a boy,” I argue, knowing perhaps that it won’t make as much sense but 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

actions,

don’t turn to look at her, keeping my eyes on him. “You’re

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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 finally have