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 –”

leaning in so that our faces are only

finger up between us, a move I’ve seen my mom make a

into the school, and now I’ve beat forty percent of the men who have been training just

finish line bleeding and barely breathing, Ariel,” 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 cannot, in good faith, send you to your death – you are not

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sitting back on my butt and crossing my arms as I

His

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

despite his actions, I

look at her, keeping my eyes on him. “You’re being if she was a boy; or, hell,

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start that this school was on the wrong side of it to only let in boys. It’s been