The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0685

The next morning I can barely run, I'm laughing so hard.

"Jesse!" I shout, tripping over my own feet as I try to keep a bead on him with my paintball rifle. "Quit doing that!"

"No way, you're getting too good!" He shouts back, laughing himself and disappearing again into a cloud of shadows before darting off between the trees. He found out this morning, when we were messing around in our run, that he can cast the shadows over himself, making them cling tightly to his form so that he, in essence, becomes a shadow himself.

It doesn't make him invisible - not really - but in the shade it does make him basically indistinguishable from the shadows cast by the trees. And damn, does it make him hard to shoot.

"Jess!" I growl before I dart off after him, still laughing. "This is so unfair!"

"You're the one with the damn gun, Ari!"

Left, Jackson says, directly into my mind. He's ahead of me, of course, with those long Alpha legs. See where he's running through the leaves and shaking them? Shoot there.

and taking aim, even as my heart pounds and my breath shudders in my chest. I take in one deep gasp of

trees, and a

thanks and love Jacksons way and sprint in the direction Jesse went. I find him almost immediately, mostly because Rafe's standing over him, his hands on his hips, cracking up at

at me, brushing mud from the front of his shirt just as Jackson comes into the clearing too, beaming

Jacks. He gives his usual snarl of delight when he

shoving Jackson playfully away.

up. "If you can take out Jesse when you can't even see him I don't stand

me. "He might be the only one who can give you a run

my face breaking into a grin. "Yeah, let's ask him! But let's invite Ben too, I don't want him to be left out." "Not Tony?" Jesse asks, raising an eyebrow my way and

have some space," I sigh, my shoulder slumping slightly. "Tony

to see some of his assassin tricks, though," Jacks murmurs, looking

head to the

the Castle "As fun as this is, we're running late for breakfast and should head in. I feel like the Captain might send information on the

and turns are