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 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 touch with me and Rafe.

a sigh. "I think we all feel

lifting my eyes again to meet

Luca says with a grimace. "Heggardy and his co-captain are back amongst the general

the math,

towards him, suddenly livid. "And Wright and

says, leaning back and running a hand through his hair. "We can

way that he calls Tony "my boy." What is the deal with these two, anyway? Why is there this weird antipathy? "Wait, how did Tony have

best guess is that the Captain doesn't think that Wright or Blythe got the chance to show

that Heggardy and

Tony basically took out his

against