The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0617

"Why are you distracted?" he asks, frowning at me.

"Faiza," I say with a sigh, stretching my tired arms up over my head. "She gave me kind of a weird assignment. Fun, but... weird. But I'll tell you about that next - I kind of want your help with it." Luca's face brightens at the prospect, but I just lift my chin at him.

"You, please," I say, dropping my hands and beaming at my pretty mate. "What was your news?"

Luca's face falls and he leans back on his hands. "After you left breakfast early, messengers came with notes. We're having the second set of Games early too crazy early. Draft tomorrow, Games the next day."

My jaw drops open in shock. "But that's...that's ridiculous," I say, shaking my head at him. "I mean, we haven't even had time to learn from our mistakes the last game -"

"I know," Luca says, his voice full of dread as he nods in agreement. "It is... it feels really bad, Ari. Like they're doing it all fast because they want us to have as much experience as possible before they ship us to the front too."

I whisper, my shoulders slumping as I cast my gaze down into my lap, terribly worried now. I wish quite suddenly for a phone so I could call my dad, ask him what the hell is going on. But none of the other cadets have that privilege and I guess if he really thought it was important, he'd get in

says on a sigh. "I think we

it and lifting my eyes again to meet his. "Are the

grimace. "Heggardy and his co-captain are back amongst the general draft pool and there are four teams

do the math,

forward towards him, suddenly livid. "And

"We can only assume that your boy Tony had something to

towards Luca now, curious about the slightly bitter way that he calls Tony "my boy." What is the deal with these

guess is that the Captain doesn't think that Wright or

Heggardy

basically took out his entire team..." Luca shrugs and I

sigh, shaking my head and leaning back against my own hands. "We're going