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."

discontentedly about how mates aren't supposed to have secrets from each other, but he just

I laugh too, realizing that he's

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

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

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

still groggy, waking up and rubbing her eye as she grins at me. "Someone was a bad little princess last night,

a second at her gall, but I snap it

on my stomach as I grin at her. I perch my chin on my hand. "Do you really want to have a chat about who was bad, and who snuck out, with a certain

into laughter and flops back on her pillow, covering her

shakes her head in complete disbelief. "Sooo, Jackson and I took the roof. Where did Rafe

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

kiss?" I ask, eager, my eyebrows going

wasn't like that. It was just..." she