The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy



Chapter 0348

"Ariel!" Rafe shouts, his arms going around me, holding me close. I press my eyes shut, my hand pressed to my side.

The bell rings, stopping the round-thank god - and I can feel Luca's relief. But still, the pain radiates, and I stay pressed to my brother's side. "Ariel!" my mom gasps, suddenly next to me. "What the -*

"She's feeling it, mom!" Rafe says, his voice shaking with his anxiety. "I don't know how - but his ribs - whatever happened, she's feeling it too -*

"Oh my god," my mom says as my dad comes rushing to my other side, as our family and friends simultaneously make space for us even as they stand between us and the low wall of the box, shielding us from prying eyes.

Mom looks frantically at my dad. "Dominic," she murmurs, "is this possible? Can she get hurt because he's getting hurt?"

dad murmurs, coming close and feeling at

desperately afraid and trying to look back towards my mate. "Luca's ribs are broken!" I'm panting now

He murmurs to her, and her hand is instantly on my side too. She looks up at

my face between his hands, making me look at him. "His ribs might be broken, Ariel," dad murmurs. "But yours are not. Okay? You are feeling it down the bond - but all of it is his

possible!?" mom gasps, looking

his fingers in front of my face, drawing my attention back to him. "You have to close it down. The bond - close your end of it, just for now, or else you'll feel everything he's feeling - and he'll feel everything you're feeling - and that will

words out by the end and I

she closes hers, and then I feel the calming lavender of her gift sweep over me. She's not healing me now - I know - though I desperately wonder for

no time

down into my soul to where my bonds are. There, I find it - my sweet, shining, silver bond with Luca - and

and then as she said - just...gently

my own head