The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0659

The Captain and I are locked into a stalemate for a long, long moment, neither of us given in. He glares down at me, baring his teeth just slightly, trying to get me to break. But I just stare back up at him, impassive.

I've dealt with Alphas bigger than him all my life. If he thinks he can scare me, he's got a big surprise coming.

The Captain snaps his head to the side, looking in at the room of quiet Cadets just quietly watching us in a little bit of fearful awe.

"Perhaps you all do need to hear this," he growls, stepping into the room, pretending like it was his idea all along. I very carefully keep the smile off of my face as I press the door shut behind him and then move to stand before him, Rafe a few protective feet behind me, even as he lets me take the lead.

"I want to make it very clear," the Captain barks out, finishing his little survey of the room before returning his eyes to me. "That you all need to stop thinking that you have special privileges because of your connections to the throne. You are under my command here at the Academy and you will fall in line."

"Have we broken the rules, sir?" I ask, folding my hands behind my back, my fingers twisting tensely together.

"You have made a ridiculous request to re-form the draft pick from this morning, to bend the rules in your favor so that you can have the teams you want. It will not be done. The draft was fair and in accordance with the rules of the Game." "Not the teams we want, sir," I say, holding his gaze. "The teams we need."

His growl deepens as he glares at me, not liking at all that I'm not simply folding under his command.

stay silent, looking up at

chain of command. Stop wasting my time by acting

me, a little appalled

silent, staring at him, waiting for

an eyebrow, the only

l.ne

the

little half bow of thanks for his concession in hearing me out. "But sir, we don't want to play in the Games together simply because it gives us an advantage." I glance back at the group, fully aware that this was conversation that we were just having. "But because it would be foolhardy to train us separate from each other. We need to train

"Why?" he growls.

need

set him off and

slightly, but enough to make the Captain his eyes briefly to him, to see it. "You will all go into battle in whatever

useful and that is

the story."

most useful at each other's side. It is...frankly, sir,

Captain gives me a livid snarl and I swallow hard, thinking that...well, that perhaps that pushed it