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."

groans aloud now, unable to

Luca away from him, hard, like he can't stand to touch him

to your rescue and pulled you out of that stupor. And don't even think

head whips up at

me - but you also know my soft-hearted daughter by now, know she'd never take it, or that if she did she'd put it right back into your gym. My daughter, no matter how you look at it, made you incredibly

Sinclair is right. The offer - he'd have given her the money if she'd have taken it. But... deep down,

in her narne. And then she, alone, will decide how she wants to allocate it. You're not her accountant, Luca even if you pretended to give her the funds, and she said she wanted them to go

and then nods once, agreeing. "Yes,

of your uncle, and his incredible hubris, at

taking a step forward and grabbing Luca by the collar, hauling him close so that Luca can feel the Alpha's breath on his face. "But in the time we have left, I have one more thing to

in fear and mortification, his knees almost giving out beneath him. But Sinclair ignores this,

"ever again raise your voice at my favorite child - Princess Ariel Sinclair, goddess-born, a fucking

ear. "Then I'll fucking rip your heart out, Luca Grant. And I mean that

Sinclair casts