The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

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.

some things straight and

Jackson, his arms crossed as

shrug. "I was invited." He

Ben asks, starting to

room to take

up. "What is all this happy family nonsense!? Are we all just going to pretend that McClintock and I didn't try to kill each other last night? That we're

all this confidence came from. This is, in some ways, a very different Jackson than the grief-stricken wolf who stormed out of here last

to Jackson. Rafe grabs the back of

murmurs when I look back at him. "This, weirdly, is not

to go from two mates to none if they tear each other to

both just watch as

to come in here all calm, pretending you're fine with this, looking like the good guy - making me look like the bad guy But