The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0388

If Luca could melt into a mortified puddle of humiliation, he'd do it, right then and there. He presses his eyes shut and hangs his head.

"Answer me!" Sinclair barks.

Luca's shoulders start to tremble. "No, sir."

"No, sir' is right," the King growls, stepping forward and snatching Luca's face, pressing his

cheeks tight between his fingers, making the boy look up at him. "Now listen to me, you fucking spoiled child."

The way the King, his mate's father, calls him a spoiled child makes Luca want to just... shrivel up and die.

"I don't want a single one of your excuses, and I know that you have them. That you were drunk? Learn how to control your liquor," Sinclair gives Luca a shake as he bites out the words, a pulse that vibrates through Luca's entire body. "You were angry? Control your fucking emotions. That she betrayed you? She has another mate, Luca, and one who comports himself far better than you did this morning - so fucking leam from him."

aloud now, unable to help it, completely

hard, like

came running down to your rescue and pulled you out of that stupor. And don't even think that it slipped my attention that your incredible luck at being

whips up at this.

the ferocity of his expression stealing Luca's breath and his will to speak. "You offered to give her the money - Ariel told Ella that, so of course the news got back to me - but you also know my soft-hearted daughter by now, know she'd never take it,

The offer - he'd have given her

she, alone, will decide how she wants to allocate it. You're not her accountant, Luca even if you pretended

takes a deep breath and then nods once, agreeing.

discuss the matter of your uncle, and his incredible hubris, at a

Luca can feel the Alpha's breath on his face. "But in

crumbles in fear and mortification, his knees almost giving out beneath him. But Sinclair ignores this, holding the nation's champion up with

my favorite child - Princess Ariel Sinclair, goddess-born, a fucking angel on this

very, very close to his ear. "Then I'll fucking

vicious shove, Sinclair casts Luca away from