The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0484

When I walk into class, I grin to see that everyone else is here. Rafe and Jesse joke casually with Jacks while Tony lounges at his desk, his long legs sticking out from under it as he flicks through a book.

Of course, my smile fades as soon as I hear Alvez's voice to my left.

"Very nearly late...Clark."

My head turns sharply to see him grinning at me, as he so often does now, like he holds all my secrets in the palm of his hand. And I frown at him because, I mean, he's not holding those secrets over my head anymore, is he?

So why is he still grinning at me like a cat? What on earth does he have up his sleeve?

"Sorry," I say as the room falls silent, everyone looking towards me. I pushing the door shut. "Lost track of time."

Alvez waves a magnanimous hand towards the desks and I hurry in, sitting in an open spot between Rafe and Jackson that they very obviously saved for me.

a professor to come back over winter break at the Academy to find his class still entirely intact.

I do, I find him already looking for me, and I grin as I realize that we simultaneously had the same thought about each other. His own face breaks into a

back to him. "In such an impressive group, I have to admit that I'm a little...displeased. There should have been more progress in the development of your gifts

bored, "If you gave us more instruction than 'hold

for a moment and I fight a smile. When I glance at

in your

professor. "But if you're looking for a blatant critique, I'd say that this class is pretty much a waste of my time. No offense to my classmates," he glances at us here, and I see the honesty in his eyes, "but I already know what my gift is and how to use it. I'm just sitting around while they

adjust my pedagogy?" Alvez says, leaning

attention, I suppose," Tony says, crossing his arms over his chest and staring steadily at the professor. "Or just letting me take a study hall, if there's

Alvez says, a wicked smile taking his face as he turns his eyes to me.

drift away from my face and down my body.

lets out a low and rumbling growl that