The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0241

My lip starts to tremble as I listen, tears again stinging my eyes, but Jesse leans forward.

“Rafe,” he murmurs, glancing between us. “Slow down a little, man. I mean, if we’re aware of what they’re feeling, then she’s aware of it double – she can feel it all down their bonds. And that, on top of her own feelings?” He shakes his head, holding Rafe’s gaze, willing him

to listen.

Rafe takes a deep breath and sighs, pushing his cake around on his plate, clearly thinking it through. In the end, though, he looks up at me. “Can you seriously feel everything they feel?”

“Not everything,” I murmur, my voice tight as I look down at my plate. “Not unless the emotion is really intense, or they send it to me deliberately. And not…across great distances. Only when they’re nearby, or in the room. Like I can’t feel them now.”

“Weird,” he murmurs, quietly eating his cake as he puts his thoughts together for a second. Jesse does the same.

Rafe

Ariel,” he murmurs, truly hurt, “that you’d trusted me enough to let me

in his voice, and then my throat gets tight. I blink fast, not wanting to cry,

to fall

warm hand on my knee. “We can’t yell

at my cheeks with the side of one hand. “I’m sorry, I’m really sorry –”

the coffee table and getting to his knees as he reaches for me, wrapping his arms around my body and pulling me into his lap. “I’m sorry, sis. I’m fucking livid with you but – god, fuck, I’m sorry you bore this

letting myself be overwhelmed by my grief and confusion, knowing he’ll see

all of our heads are very close together, so that we can talk and hear each other in barely more than a whisper, if we so choose. “We can’t get all the gossip if

away all

show up here to breakfast tomorrow, newly determined to try for

he’s not precisely prepared to grovel for