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.

long moment, Rafe breaks

hurt, “that you’d trusted me enough to let me know. I’d have told

to sting at the true sadness and hurt in his voice, and then my throat gets tight. I blink fast, not wanting to cry, because I know that they have every right to be mad at me, but…

fall down my cheeks anyway.

forward and putting a warm hand on my knee.

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

and pulling me into his lap. “I’m sorry, sis. I’m fucking

knowing he’ll see me

so that all of our heads are very close together, so that we can

ask, wiping my away all my tears, kind of appalled.

his head to grin at me. “Jackson’s fine, by the way, thanks to yours truly. Going to show up here to breakfast tomorrow, newly determined to try for your hand. In exchange for your genuine gratitude, my love…I

hell, and while…well, while he’s not precisely prepared to grovel for you…he’ll be here in the