The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0375

"Ariel," Jesse says, tightening the hand on my shoulder as he grins at me. "This isn't going to wash off like my scent markings in the Academy did. Jackson's.... in your pores now. For a couple of days, every Luna you meet is going to be begging to see your new mark, and every Alpha is going to be giving you some distance, lest Jacks bites his head off."

Luca just stands, tense, against the bed, his mouth pressed shut and his throat working like he's fighting strong nausea. But I can't pay attention now, turning to Jesse, desperate for more information. But Rafe interrupts.

*And dad," Rafe says, his grin deepening, "is going to flip."

"What!?" I shriek, totally freaked out now, looking between them and then over at Jacks. "But I! We didn't! I don't have his mark! We just..."

I groan, and drop my face into my hands, mortified.

Because Rafe and Jesse are too polite to say it, but what they really mean is that I now smell like Jackson and I were up fucking all night, consummating our mating bond and making it official.

But we weren't!

against my palms. "If it does the same thing as giving

I lift my head in time to see him giving a little shrug." Or to..." he laughs a little here, "claim a second or a third person, as part of your harem, when you've already given your mark to someone else. I mean, an

that that hits a little too close to home in this case and Jesse and Rafe laugh. Gently, not cruel, but seeing the humor in it in a way that

his shoulders still trembling slightly as he glares around at each of us in turn. "Now could everyone please fucking leave, so I can have a conversation with my mate

mouth drops open in shock

circle inside of me, her

lifts his eyes to me, and I realize that...I may have

Grant," Rafe snaps, stepping forward towards Luca and coming immediately to my defense." You have

me and keeping his eyes locked on

the back of his neck, looking at me out of the corner of his eye. "It doesn't look great, Ari," he

murmur, trying to walk a fine line here between making Luca feel better an honoring the time I spent with Jackson. Because... I mean, both

with such hurt in his eyes, pain all over him, that my lip begins to tremble, my shoulders to slump. "On the biggest night of my life, Ariel - a night when we came together in such an important way? You leave early, to go