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.

surprised, at all, to find Rafe waiting for me, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, one foot propped against the wall

his shoulder a shove. He starts and looks around,

a little

asleep

want. I'm going to be the King one day, after all. It's my palace, I sleep where

the hall towards our family suite, my

gin and as little sleep as

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

perfectly fine, little

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

perfectly fine causing as much trouble as possible," he replies,

hurts more than it does,

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

this, little sister, is that it is your problem. Not mine." Rafe heaves a