The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

He points to the end of my bed and I see my black Cadet uniform there, along with some folded pieces of paper. I grin, encouraged by the sight of my Academy Black, hoping to hell this means my dad will let me go.

I mean, I'm an adult now - my decisions are mine. But, if he really doesn't want me to go he can absolutely blow my cover and just let the school know that I'm a girl. I scowl, hating it, but also trusting, deep down, that my dad will listen. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the ꜰindNʘvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"Are you coming to breakfast?" I ask, looking down at Jackson.

"Hell no," he says, shaking his head like I'm crazy. I laugh, grinning at him.

"One conversation with my dad was enough?"

"I need...a great deal of prep before the next time that I sit down with your father," he murmurs, covering his face with his hand and taking a deep breath. "That was terrifying."

"He was being nice to you!" I laugh.

"Ari," Jackson murmurs, shaking his head even as he refuses to look at me, "I have a very different relationship with men in positions of authority - yesterday I almost had a heart attack when I saw you yell at the King. Where I come from, you'd have been killed for that -"

dad," I say, frowning down at

he says, taking his hand away with a sigh and looking up

again. "We'll get Rafe to

he mutters, shaking his

I

opens. I sit up straight with a gasp, but then relax when I see

a us with her hands on her hips. "Well, this is very chaste. You're just...laying next to each other. Honestly, Ariel,

Ariel!" She says with a big

mother!" I shout, pressing

mom comes close and swats me on the head, laughing, before offering a hand out to

into her heart completely and is

using it to get up, instead

this polite?" mom asks, grinning at me