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.

down the bond, feel it in the way that his chest rumbles.

up to look

he says, sighing happily and staring into my face, searching it like

there. I

you're glad I'm here?"

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 silk of my dress, the way his skin feels hot under my hands as I

then breaks away, loosing a long breath. In that, I can feel that he's working very hard to

between us, wanting

clears his throat and quietly starts to lower me to the ground. I squeak in protest, bending my knees so that my feet lift far from

out laughing again and straightens up, and I grin with pleasure when I'm pressed again against his chest, right where I want to be. "Your parents were right," he murmurs, taking

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

murmurs, looking at me seriously, shaking his head slightly. "It is..difficult,

him wide-eyed, like