The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0358

"I missed you," he murmurs, holding me close and falling back against the wall next to the door.

I grin at him in the dark of the room, my face very close to his, my feet nowhere near the ground. God, I love how he always picks me up. I don't know why it's not like he carries me anywhere or it does any productive good. I just...love it. "You did?" I whisper, delighted.

"I always miss you," he murmurs, leaning forward a little to nudge my nose with his.

"Oh yeah?" I say, sighing a little. "Even like, when I'm in the same room?"

Jackson just frowns at me like I'm crazy. "No, Ariel, that's ridiculous."

I burst out laughing, tilting my head back on my neck.

the way that his

laughing, pulling my head back up to look into

staring

glad you're there. I can't miss you in the same moment that I'm glad you're

you're glad I'm here?"

want you near." And then he moves his head forward, as I hoped he would, and brings his mouth to mine, and kisses the daylights cut of me. I moan a little, loving the feeling of his lips on mine, the way he kisses me languidly, like he has all damn night to do it. I love the way his hands tighten against the

a long breath. In that, I can feel that he's working very

distance between us, wanting

starts to lower me to the ground. I squeak in protest, bending my knees so that my feet lift far from the floor, so that when Jackson expects my heels to hit

against his chest, right where I want to be. "Your parents were right," he murmurs, taking

trying to put me down?" I frown at him, not liking that he ended our kiss right when things were

seriously, shaking his head slightly. "It is..difficult, to not let myself get carried

him wide-eyed, like that's