The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0457

My eyes go wide. "But I don't want that!"

"You should," dad says, and I whip my head back to see him studying me with a raised eyebrow. "I didn't raise my children to simply hand out millions of dollars without knowing precisely where it went, Ariel."

"It's going to Luca, dad," I say, narrowing my eyes at him and holding out my palm towards my mate. "Whom I trust."

"Actually, it wouldn't be," Luca says, and I spin my head to face him, my eyes even wider. He gives an apologetic shrug. "I have very little to do with the day-to-day running of the gym and the support of all the kids who are enrolled as charity pupils, Ariel. I mean, obviously I'm here, not there. The money would be going directly to my uncle if you simply wrote a check. And, considering..." he hesitates now, letting me fill in the blanks, knowing how I feel about his uncle at the current moment.

I scowl, leaning back against the chair and taking a deep breath, feeling underprepared for all of this.

reaching out and running a hand up and down my arm, comforting. "Why don't you and Luca take a few days to talk? Figure out precisely how you want the money allocated and where you want

she feels like

your responsibility, darling," she says

though," I reply, getting

profitable at this moment, and the infrastructure we currently have is not really prepared to handle the influx of this kind of money - my uncle

Luca's hand, feeling just how much he means that down

the paper on the table. "And we're sending...all of

as you wish, Ariel, but I would hope that you would allocate some funds elsewhere. There are many organizations that could use it. Or, perhaps there's a project you'd like to develop yourself for which you would reserve some

I murmur, picking up the paper and looking it over,

the time, young lady," my dad says,