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.

not surprised, 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

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

scolds on the exhale, giving me a little shove right back. "Don't scare

asleep in

I want. I'm going to be the King one day,

the hall towards our family suite, my arm around his

gin and as little sleep as we've had tonight, we

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

were doing perfectly

ask, kind of surprised

as possible," he replies, blinking

him in the ribs. He hisses, pretending it hurts more than it does, which just makes me laugh even though it's an old, stupid

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,"

are we gonna do with him?" I murmur,

it is your problem. Not mine." Rafe heaves