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 –”

I say, frowning down at him.

away with a sigh and looking up at me. “We don’t

to his side and curling up with him again. “We’ll get Rafe to have some chats with you to

king to be nice,” he mutters, shaking his head in disbelief. “And he’ll

mutter,

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

and peering a us with her hands on her hips. “Well, this is very chaste. You’re just…laying next to each other. Honestly, Ariel,

you –”

I gasp, horrified at her implications that Jackson and

each other.

Ariel!” She says with a big sigh.

shout, pressing my eyes shut, wishing to erase that information from

my mom comes close and swats me on the head, laughing, before offering a

says, smiling at him, and when I look up at her I can see that she’s already welcomed Jacks into her heart completely

not

his own feet.