The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0249

To my surprise, Jackson makes absolutely no move to put me down. Instead, he just looks at Luca evenly for a second. “Your girlfriend?” he asks, the words low and light with disbelief. He hums consideringly and then turns his face back up to mine. “What do you think, Clark?” he murmurs, nodding over to where Luca stands, not bothering to look his way. “That your boyfriend over there?”

I can’t help it then, loving the assurance in his voice, the calm way he dismisses Luca’s jealousy. A slow, happy smile spreads over my lips as I stare down at him, not saying a single word regarding whether Luca’s my boyfriend or not.

Because honestly, I don’t know.

But Jackson’s right – Luca doesn’t get to boss him around on this, does he?

“Didn’t think so,” Jackson murmurs, low enough that maybe only I hear him. But then he grins at me and lowers me to the floor as Luca strides to my side, grabbing my hand.

“Okay, okay,” Rafe says, stepping forward with a sigh. “Clearly, clearly we need some ground rules here.”

And I sigh, glancing up at both of my mates, before crossing the room to Rafe’s side.

it’s time we got some things straight and I might need some physical distance from them to

you even doing here?” Luca growls at Jackson, his arms crossed as

says, giving a calm shrug. “I was invited.” He

starting to

“Sure,”

room to take it

nonsense!? Are we all just going to pretend that McClintock and I didn’t try to kill each other last night? That we’re not going to do it again if we don’t get

you,” Jackson says evenly, taking a calm sip of his coffee. I blink

the grief–stricken wolf who stormed out of here last night. “Are you going to kill me? Or…try?”

to Jackson. Rafe grabs the back of my shirt, not letting me

Rafe murmurs when I look back at him. “This, weirdly, is

my arms. “I’m going to go from two

laughs lightly, but we both just watch

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