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."

now, unable to help it, completely

hard, like he

that you only won that fight last night, Luca, because my daughter saved your ass - came running down to your rescue and pulled you out of that stupor. And don't even think that

whips up at this. "Sir, I

- 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, or that if she did she'd put

and he hangs his head - because Sinclair is right. The offer - he'd have given her the money if she'd have taken it. But... deep down, he'd known she wouldn't

money," Sinclair says, and Luca raises his head to meet the King's eyes again, not understanding. "But within twenty-four hours you will transfer all of the money from the magazine article into an account that I will provide an account 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

takes a deep breath and then nods once, agreeing.

of your uncle, and his incredible hubris, at a

by the collar, hauling him close so that Luca can feel the Alpha's breath on his face. "But in the time we have

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

again raise your voice at my favorite child - Princess Ariel Sinclair, goddess-born, a fucking angel on this

whole body shakes as Sinclair brings his mouth very, very close to his ear. "Then I'll fucking rip your heart out, Luca Grant. And I mean

vicious shove, Sinclair casts Luca