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?"

me see," dad murmurs, coming close and feeling

desperately afraid and trying to look back towards my mate.

he shouts, and she's there in an instant. He murmurs to her, and her

"His ribs might be broken, Ariel," dad murmurs. "But yours are not. Okay? You

mom gasps, looking between me and my

- they don't know how to control it. Ariel!" He snaps 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 -

by the end and I focus on his

baby," mom says, slipping her hands over my shoulders and stepping between me and my dad. "Deep breaths, do it with me." And I focus on my mom's face, and close my eyes when 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 a second if her gift

no time for that

into my soul to where my bonds are. There, I find it - my sweet, shining, silver

then take hold of the bond gently in my mental hands, and then as she said - just...gently pinch it off, holding it between my fingertips. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the ꜰindNʘvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and

now," I whisper to myself, perhaps aloud - perhaps in my own head - I don't know. I don't really care.