The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0629

"All by yourself tonight?" A man says, coming over to my table and plopping himself down on a stool. I watch him with interest, noting his jeans and his button-down shirt, his reddish-blonde beard that's slightly stained at the corners of his mouth. I do my best to avoid a grimace and instead go even more vacant and bubbly.

"What?" I ask, blinking at him.

He smiles at me, pleased. "Are you here by yourself tonight, pretty lady?"

"Oh!" I say, beaming, and then I laugh like it's the funniest thing I've ever heard - something else Faiza recommended when talking to men. "Yeah, I'm here all on my own. Just thought I'd, you know," I shrug. "Check it out." "New to town," the man says, giving me a satisfied smirk and lifting his chin towards my beer. "What are you drinking?"

"Oh, I don't know," I say, looking down at my beer and giving another tinkly laugh. "I just...told the bartender to get me whatever. I don't know a lot about beer. Um, do you?" I look at him with a great deal of hope in my eyes, worrying that I'm overdoing it. But the way the man leans forward, desperately pleased to share his beer knowledge, lets me know that he's bought my act hook, line, and sinker.

Over the next few minutes I use all of the tricks Faiza taught me - asking lots of questions, answering his own questions about me vaguely and always with a laugh, always turning the conversation back to him like I don't have an interesting thought in my head and everything he says is fascinating.

It only takes us about half a beer for him to make his move. "Listen," the guy says, leaning forward towards me. "You want another drink? Then maybe we can...get out of here?"

my lip and giving a delicate shrug. "I would but..." I gesture

He looks where I'm gesturing and, to my surprise, his lips turn up in a smirk. "If that's your boyfriend, missy...I'm not sure

I turn around, my

shock only

he indicated he'd go. But he's there with three women, each of whom are kind of fawning all over him. And, to my shock, he's got his eyes locked

on, baby," the man says, reaching out and wrapping a hand around my wrist. "I'll treat you

Tony says,

stool next to me and putting an arm

on the cheek and then turns his eyes to the man with his hand

and glances down at the man's hand,

and standing up as he rolls his eyes. "Whatever." He

him with a little grimace before glancing again at Luca, who still

dropping his arm from my shoulder and

can handle it from here," I say, pushing myself up from my chair and turning towards my mate and his