The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

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 -"

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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.

That's my man over there, standing awkwardly at my mom's side with her arm around his waist as she happily laughs with Aunt Cora and Uncle

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

voice low with doubt as her eyes focus on mom's arm around

at my sister, before

side - being so nice to him, wanting him to feel comfortable in this big room full of people - but...yeah. Maybe looking a little too close to my mate to the eye of one who doesn't understand how empathetic mom is as well as how incredibly awkward Jacks feels. I can't help but laugh harder now that

wanting to know. "You're so gross," I groan, shoving my little sister playfully away from me before grabbing her hand

- he'll get all jealous, and then we'll have a body to clean up. Which will be interesting, but messy." I grin, ignoring her words. Because as much as she likes to pretend she's a black sheep, Juniper is very much a part of this family, and she likes joking and teasing as much as the rest of

my two little girls!" mom says, dropping her hand from Jackson's waist so that she can reach for Juniper and me when we come near. "I love seeing you two get along! It's so rare, to have you not tearing

more minutes of us being nice," Junie sighs, letting mom fold her into a

uncle Roger says as Ben and Daphne step away, heading to the little bar in the corner for drinks. Roger lets out a booming laugh at his own joke as

Rog," I say, beaming up into