The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0380

"Can I ask you...maybe an unfair question?"

He smirks at me, and turns his head to the side, inviting it.

I grin, and nod towards the door, where Luca left. "If it were the other way around. And...you had a big night, and I left early and...you found me in his bed in the morning. Would you...do you think you would have reacted the same?"

Jackson's smirk just deepens. "Trick question, Clark. Because it never would have happened."

"What?" I ask, frowning in my confusion.

"If you think," he says slowly, lowering his head a little in a predatory way that makes my stomach tense, "I would have ever stayed at a bar without you? Let you go home alone to a cold bed? Or, worse yet, to a warm one?" He quirks and eyebrow and then slowly, he shakes his head.

The smile that bursts onto my face - it stretches so wide my cheeks hurt.

Jackson just gives me a grin before he drops his head again, returning to his thoughts. And I slip out the door, pushing it shut behind me just...completely filled with warmth at that answer, from my head to my toes.

arms crossed, one foot propped against the wall behind him.

He starts and looks around, gasping in a deep

a

fall asleep

do what I want. I'm going to be the King one day, after all. It's my

down the hall towards our family suite, my arm around his waist. "You sound like Jesse, talking like

little sleep as we've had tonight, we

into my brother, grateful to have him here. "Thanks, Rafe. I

perfectly

of surprised at

as possible," he replies,

elbow him in the ribs. He hisses, pretending it hurts more than it does, which just

tightening his arm around me a little. "Luca is just... he can be dramatic, can't he? I mean, I do get why he's upset," Rafe gives me a significant look here, and I roll my eyes, done defending myself on that point.

gonna do with him?" I murmur, shaking my

good part about this, little sister, is that it is your problem. Not mine." Rafe