The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0240

“One, Ariel Sinclair,” Ben says, laughing, “if you tried to kill me, I could take you.”

I laugh too, grinning at him.

“And two,” he continues, and my face falls along with his as real sorrow appears in his eyes, “if you’re asking me if I’m jealous of you having two of the most eligible men in the nation so upset that you’re not singularly in love with them that they’re ready to kill each other?” He leans forward, a bit intent, a bit sorrowful. “Yeah, babe. I’m jealous.‘

“Oh, Ben,” I murmur, setting my plate of cake aside on the coffee table and leaning forward to him, reaching out. “It will be all right – it will all –”

“It won’t, though, will it?” Ben murmurs, taking my hand and looking down at his knees as he squeezes it, sweet and sorrowful and hopeless. “Not if I…if I want him…”

I squeeze his hand back, not knowing what to say, but the door opens and we both turn to it, both of us sighing to see an exhausted Rafe walk through.

“Dafo

“What is this,” Rafe murmurs, his eyes flicking over my hand held in Ben’s, the half–eaten chocolate cake on the coffee table. Ben and I…we really didn’t go easy on it, did we? “A third mate?”

“If only I were so lucky,” Ben sighs, standing up and then bending over to give me a fond kiss on the cheek.

Benji,” I murmur, looking up at him with true gratitude, not yet letting go of his hand

murmurs, patting my cheek and then standing up straight, looking up at Rafe, the man he loves. “I take

for her,” Rafe murmurs, patting Ben on the shoulder with true gratitude, we

I exclaim,

way that would impress an Espionage cadet. “Absolute hours, baby

towards the door, preparing to

I call after him, knowing

Rafe or Jesse counter me, but after the door clicks shut, my cousin and my brother level their glares evenly on

that I’m in for

of the couch and making plenty of room for them. “Eat some cake while you yell at me.

cuts himself a slice and sits neatly across the couch from me in Luca’s usual spot that Ben just

when he knows I’m obviously dying to know how he left Jackson. “Don’t mess around with it.”

update on first?” Rafe asks, all innocence, curling his legs beneath him and sitting on the floor next to the couch as he reaches for the cake that Jesse

can tell he’s mad. Really, really mad.

it was a rhetorical question anyway. And also, that they wouldn’t have come back to the room if

looks down at his plate and shakes his head. “You know we would have