The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0310

“I’m a public figure too,” I explain to Jackson, incredibly sorry, “and…my reputation, unfortunately, matters. If Luca has confirmed to the entire nation that I’m his mate, and then I’m stepping out with this super hot Alpha, kissing him in the streets? The press is going to tear me to pieces – call me unfaithful, say that I’ve betrayed Luca. No one will believe me that I have two mates – everyone will say that I’m a liar. And…I mean, as a political figure…I can’t be seen as a liar.‘

“Oh,” Jackson says, his eyes unfocusing as he looks away from me and starts to process this. “So…he claimed you first. So that I couldn’t.‘

“If he did it,” I say softly, needing that to be stated. Because, well, while it doesn’t look precisely good for Luca right now…I’m not willing to damn him without confronting him first and getting the truth from his own lips.

Still, Luca isn’t my priority in this moment.

are you!

about this,” I murmur, softly running my fingers through Jackson’s newly cropped hair, loving the way that it feels against my skin. I feel so much calmer than I did even half an hour ago

and it’s not only that I got a chance to process everything, but also because Jackson is here, holding me, being steady and warm as he always is.

a little, his pretty blue eyes crinkling. “Okay, I just…I mean, I want to support you, Ariel. And I think that if he did this then it was an absolutely horrible thing to do – you should be livid. You’re right- it’s not up to one person in a pair to make unilateral decisions regarding

the question.” He laughs at me, smiling, and I

leaning forward and gently pressing his forehead to mine. “But Ariel…for me? I…I

that

that sound. And I lift my arms, wrapping them around his neck as I shake my head at him. “Jackson, this was a blow

I just…I’m

lace together behind his neck. “I don’t get it. How does this not piss you off?”

a moment before he speaks, trying to put words to his emotions, which I know is sometimes foreign to him. “If Luca did this, then he did it at least partially to piss me off, thinking that I’d get jealous.

eyes back to me, looking a little

+ BONUS

him, encouraging.

a very visceral reaction, Ariel,” he murmurs, “when I see Luca touch you. That’s difficult for me. And I did…” he growls a little, the sound rumbling in his chest, and I can’t help but smile,

little