The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0289

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My dad sits quietly by me as I finish telling him what Jackson and Luca have asked of me, I wipe a few stray tears from my eyes. Dad is strong and stoic as I speak – the rock in my life that I always need him to be, letting me feel my pain and sitting quietly by me as I do. And when it passes, he’s still there, holding my hand.

“What do you think?” I ask, my voice a little shaky, wanting to know.

He sighs. “Well, I’m not surprised,” he says, tilting his head to the side. “The

possessiveness I feel towards your mother – there was a moment when we thought she had a second mate too, and I…completely flipped out –”

“What!?” I gasp, shocked. Why – why are there all these things about my parents‘ past that I had no idea about!?

Dad laughs a little, squeezing my hand. “I ripped the door basically off its hinges, went tearing through the Palace looking for him, fully intending to murder him, scared poor Conner nearly to death.” He laughs again, like it’s a fond memory, as I stare at him with wide eyes.

“But he wasn’t her mate?”

head. “Just…a misunderstanding. We checked with

“How does one

waving a passive hand before reaching for his coffee. “Just summon her up

for a second, staring into space and collecting his thoughts, as I just gape at him. Aunt Cora can just summon the Goddess? God,

control the weather.

gently taking his hand from mine while he takes a sip of his coffee, sensing that my sadness has passed fully now. “You

I can do it!?” I

too, Ariel,” dad says, grinning over his coffee at me. “I mean, we avoided saying that to you as much as we could when you were a kid because we didn’t want you

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It…might have

shock and concentrate on his words. “Wait, so, why would we summon the Goddess? To ask what?”

slowly to me. I mean, I’m not saying that you should break your word to your mates. But, I think it’s worth realizing that if the Goddess gave you two

at dad now, seeing where this is going,

his first mate really was part of the Goddess’s plan – that she made him go through a trial by fire to create