The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0173

My mouth pops open in mock indignation as my sister fights her urge to smirk. “I have always been badass and cool, Juniper!” I protest, laughing.

“Ariel, believe me,” Juniper sighs, rolling her eyes but letting her smile run free. “You have been the opposite of badass and cool. You were like, a pink bubblegum fairy glitter princess

“And I still am,” I return, laughing. “Except now I can shoot a tin can off of a tree stump from half a mile away.”

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“Ugh,” she groans. “Nevermind. Still not cool. Plus, now you’ve brought your mates home,” she murmurs, looking at Luca and then around to where Jackson is standing with our mom, clearly intuiting that he’s the other one. “Like this family needed more Alpha men around, all gigantic and eating everything in sight –”

“Not my Alphas,” I counter, grinning at her, my arm still around her shoulders. “I got them trained up real good.”

“So that’s the other one?” she says, raising her chin towards Jackson, her voice dubious.

there, standing awkwardly at my mom’s side with her arm around his waist as she happily laughs with Aunt Cora and Uncle Roger, introducing them to Daphne and

moment, her eyes flicking between Jackson and my mom. As we stand observing them, Jackson’s eyes move over to us like he can hear us thinking

low with doubt as her eyes focus on mom’s arm around Jackson’s waist. “Because right now, it kind of

staring at my sister, before I burst into laughter.

of people – but…yeah. Maybe looking a little too close to my mate to the eye of one who doesn’t understand how empathetic

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mean, she’s all over him!” Juniper says, laughing with me, throwing out a hand towards them. Jackson frowns

grabbing her hand and tugging her towards Jackson and mom. “She’s just being nice to

isn’t having as much fun as she is. “Don’t let dad see this – he’ll get all jealous, and then we’ll have a body to clean up. Which will be

Juniper and me when we come near. “I love seeing you two get along!

got about five more minutes of us being nice,” Junie sighs, letting mom fold her

danger,” my uncle Roger says as Ben and

laugh at his own joke as he wraps me into a hug. I squeak a little, laughing

say, beaming up into