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?"

close and feeling at my

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

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

Ariel," dad murmurs. "But yours are not. Okay? You are feeling it down the bond - but all of it is his pain, not

mom gasps, looking between me and my

"They're young - 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

words out by the end and I focus on his face,

breaths, do it with me." And I focus on my mom's face, and close my eyes when she closes hers, and

no, there's no

to where my bonds are. There, I find it

deeply with my mom and 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

for now," I whisper to myself, perhaps aloud - perhaps in my own head - I