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 laughs like that's quite

too, realizing

over Daphne, 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 be for a girl

her secrets. I just climb into bed, pulling my blankets up with a contented sigh, and let

Daphne keep her secrets ends, however, the moment she wakes up. "Sooo," she says, still groggy, waking up and rubbing her

second at her gall, but I

so that I'm laying flat 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

on her pillow, covering her face. "Wait, how did you know!?

head in complete disbelief. "Sooo, Jackson and I

dropping her hands and smiling at me. "We

I ask, eager, my eyebrows going

It was just..." she sighs and covers