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.

him grinning - feel it down the bond, feel it in the way that his chest rumbles. "Why would I miss you when you're still

protest, laughing, pulling my head back up

he says, sighing happily and staring into

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

glad I'm here?"

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 let them slip down his neck, and

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

distance between

throat and quietly 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

I grin with pleasure when I'm pressed again against his chest, right where

not liking that he ended our kiss right when things were

head slightly. "It is..difficult, to not let myself get carried away with you,

like that's kind of the