The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0633

I straighten, frowning at Luca in turn, still completely shocked that the mood has changed so completely within the past thirty seconds and not liking at all where this is going. I straighten my shoulders, narrowing my eyes at my mate. "This isn't about what I do with

Jackson," I snap, looking at him evenly. "I'm asking you about you. About your wolf."

Luca scowls, looking away from me and curling his shoulders inward, looking for all things...lost, and self-conscious. "Can we just...leave my wolf out of this?" he murmurs.

"Why?" I ask, barely a whisper.

"Because I asked you to," Luca snaps, glaring at me from the corner of his eye.

I sit even straighter, staring at my mate, completely unused to being iced out like this. But as I watch him, I realize that Luca is being nasty to me right now because he's...hiding something. Because he's hurt, or afraid.

I tuck my own anger away, making a mental point to talk about this particular method of confrontation at a later time, and instead turning to the real problem at hand: the fact that I'm not sure I've...ever met Luca's wolf. Except that one time when he completely lost his cool the day he found out I have another mate - when he shifted, and he and Jacks attacked each other.

my mate, trying to figure it out as he stares moodily into the trees, working hard to control his breathing. As he does I concentrate on our bond, on my

it is with Jackson,

glare at me a little bit harder. "What are you

as my wolf moves slowly across the bond bridge to his

stop

confused and utterly curious. "Luca," I whisper, leaning forward and putting a

eyes. My wolf whines deep in her throat and curls up at the other edge of our bond, her body pressed warm against the wall in his soul. And I move closer to Luca, doing the same, lining my body up with his as close as he'll let me and putting my head on his shoulder, just...being near. Being close

let me all the

warm against Luca's side. I can feel his chest hitching with held-back tears, can hear him sniffing, but I let him have his space, not acknowledging it. "Look," Luca says when his breathing his calmer, though his voice is still choked. "I'm sorry - it's not your fault, okay? And it's not

doing

with her nose But even as she does, we can feel that the wall is Luca's that he put it up. That he strengthens and weakens it

it's adamantine - stone and iron, with nothing