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.

at all, to find Rafe waiting for me, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, one foot propped against the wall behind him. I am a little surprised, though, when I step close and find him...drowsing. Almost completely asleep just...standing against the

giving his shoulder a shove. He starts and looks around,

me a little shove right back. "Don't scare

fall asleep

the King one day,

and we start down the hall towards our family suite, my arm around his waist. "You sound like

well, with as much gin and as little sleep as we've had tonight, we all

to have him here.

doing perfectly fine, little sister."

I?" I ask, kind of surprised at the compliment,

as possible," he replies,

it hurts more than it does, which just makes me

all right," Rafe says, 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. "But...yeah. He took

gonna do with him?" I murmur, shaking my

it is your problem. Not mine." Rafe heaves a