The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0469

"It's not like that," I say, dropping my head a little, wondering at myself. "My mates - Jackson, especially are...a benefit to me. Not a weakness. I don't need to run from them to do my job; and if I need to be separated from them for an assignment..." I shrug. "I'll make them understand."

"All right," she says, her hands going up to protest her innocence. "Your mates, your business. But, Princess, you have made one mistake."

"What?" I ask, sitting up straight, suddenly worried.

Faiza's smile grows as she winks at me and glances up at the clock on the wall. "You forgot to watch the time. And dad hates it when people are late."

I gasp, leaping to my feet. "Faiza!" I breathe, dashing immediately for the door. "How could you do that to me!?"

"Your schedule is not my problem Cadet!" she calls after me, laughing as I haul the door open and dash out of it. "See you back here the day after tomorrow, and then we'll really get started!"

minutes late, which to Neumann might as well be a year. Still, I

of it and then push it open,

he just rolls his eyes and points to the desks in front of him. "Inside, Clark. And stop

a stool behind a lab table. Despite my exhaustion, shock fills me as I look over at the other desks in the room and see that

them are my friends from

only one that

immediately back to him when he slams a new textbook, notebook, and pen onto the desk in front of me. I jump and turn towards him, my hands immediately going to the books. "Let us begin our course for

when I realize that they're two of the ones who protested that I shouldn't be allowed to take the final. But I sit up straighter, a bit smug when

- and letting them see

of the class this semester, which are to learn the properties of more chemical solutions -

in turn. "And we will also do a great deal of work to discover where to harvest the raw materials which will allow you to create these solutions - in secret, if necessary. Then, you will each work

realize that they, too, likely met their individual tutors this morning. God, I wonder who they are, what their