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.

- feel it down the bond, feel it in the way that his chest rumbles. "Why would I miss

up to look into his shining eyes.

he says, sighing happily and staring into

the room, I'm glad you're there. I can't miss

glad I'm here?"

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 silk of

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

I mummur, closing the distance between us, wanting

squeak in protest, bending my knees so that my feet lift far from the floor, so that when Jackson expects my heels to

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

you trying to put me down?" I frown at him, not liking that he ended our kiss

looking at me seriously, shaking his head slightly. "It is..difficult, to not let myself

him wide-eyed, like that's kind