The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0319

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He lifts his eyes a little to meet mine, but he doesn't move.

I just raise my eyebrows, a demand in them, and he sighs and presses up off the door, coming to take my hands and sit by my side. "Your room is so cute," I whisper.

He laughs, though his heart isn't in it. "Mom keeps it like a shrine to my childhood," he murmurs. "I had an apartment, obviously, in the city. But I sold it when I decided to run off to the Academy. Put the profits into the gym."

"Yeah, why didn't you tell me about the gym?" I ask, turning towards him and scooting closer, reaching out a hand to softly stroke his cheek. "It sounds amazing, what you're doing for those boys."

know, Ariel, I mean who knows how long it will last. I don't want to tell you about a project that

I say,

up at me now. "No, I don't," he murmurs, his hands tightening on mine. "I'm giving you that money, obviously." "Okay," I say, a little too cheerful. His eyes widen in surprise - I don't think he thought I'd actually take it. "Except, I want my half donated anonymously to your gym. As long as

I'm serious his face falls. "Ariel,"

have told me about it sooner - you know that the rest of us would want to help. My mom is going to love it - she loves anything that helps kids

I understand that it's not that way for everyone. "Then we'll help in other

pissed at him - he's got way too much control of my life, and I think that he hates that I have a royal connection now, that someone else - especially a little blonde

take him deeper and deeper into a spiral of worry and sorrow and grief. I press his cheeks between my palms and force

stares at me, a little baffled. And we stay like that for a long moment before he raises one hand, covering one of my own,