The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

"Children!?" I gasp, "who else is out?" I peer back over my shoulder at my mom as I head down the stairs.

"None of your business," mom says, very lofty, giving me a secretive smirk. "I'm not going to rat on my own children, after all."

"Is it Rafe!?" I ask, eager and a little scandalized, glancing back at Jackson too, who listens with interest.

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"It was Rafe," Jackson murmurs to me with a wink, pressing a hand to the small of my back as we get to the bottom of the stairs and mom walks ahead. "Your mom put me in his room, like she put Daphne in yours, but he snuck out even before I did."

"Rafe," I sigh, shaking my head. "God, I wonder where he went..."

I look up at Jackson curiously, wondering if he knows.

But, dead serious, Jackson just shakes his head at me. "Even if I knew," he says, his voice low with the gravity of his charge, "I wouldn't tell. I have been sworn to secrecy, and I take my charge quite seriously."

to have secrets from each other, but he just laughs like

too, realizing

I see that she's wearing a little pair of pink slippers that she certainly wasn't wearing when I

are pressed shut...a little tighter than I think they need to

my friend keep her secrets. I just climb into bed,

of my determination to let Daphne keep her secrets ends, however, the moment she wakes up. "Sooo," she says, still groggy, waking up and rubbing her eye as she grins

open for a second at her gall, but I snap it shut

really, Daph," I say, flipping around on my bed so that I'm laying flat on my stomach as I grin at her. I perch my chin on my hand. "Do

bursts into laughter and flops back on her pillow, covering her face. "Wait, how did you know!?

enjoying the way that she shakes her head in complete disbelief. "Sooo, Jackson

sighs, dropping her hands and smiling at me. "We sat

ask,

her head. "No, Ari, it wasn't like that. It was just..." she sighs and covers her face with her hands again. "It