The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0224

He points to the end of my bed and I see my black Cadet uniform there, along with some folded pieces of paper. I grin, encouraged by the sight of my Academy Black, hoping to hell this means my dad will let me go.

I mean, I’m an adult now – my

my decisions are mine. But, if he really doesn’t want me to go he can absolutely blow my cover and just let the school know that I’m a girl. I scowl, hating it, but also trusting, deep down, that my dad will listen.

“Are you coming to breakfast?” I ask, looking down at Jackson.

“Hell no,” he says, shaking his head like I’m crazy. I laugh, grinning at him.

“One conversation with my dad was enough?”

“I need…a great deal of prep before the next time that I sit down with your father,” he murmurs, covering his face with his hand and taking a deep breath. “That was terrifying.”

“He was being nice to you!” I laugh.

“Ari,” Jackson murmurs, shaking his head even as he refuses to look at me, “I have a very different relationship with men in positions of authority- yesterday I almost had a heart attack when I saw you yell at the King. Where I come from, you’d have been killed for that –”

it’s my dad,” I say, frowning

he says, taking his hand away with a sigh and looking

have some chats with you

mutters, shaking his

more like,” I mutter, smug, and he

opens. I sit up straight with a gasp, but then relax when I see that it’s just my

with her hands on her hips. “Well, this is very chaste. You’re just…laying next

in you –”

her implications that Jackson and I would be, like, tearing

each other.

She says with a

I shout, pressing

before I can complete the task, my mom comes close and swats me on the

at him, and when I look up at her I can see that she’s already welcomed Jacks into her heart completely and is deeply, deeply fond of my mate. ” King’s up. You have to run off to

taking her hand but not really using it to

to his