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.

my vision to my left as instructed and taking aim, even as my heart pounds and my breath shudders in my chest. I take in one

pain sounds out in the trees,

the direction Jesse went. I find him almost immediately, mostly because Rafe's standing over him, his hands on his hips, cracking up at the sight of Jesse sprawled in a puddle, a bright

up and glaring at me, brushing mud from the

and reaching a hand for Jacks. He gives his usual snarl of delight when he takes my hand, pulling me

away. "I

Jesse and pulls him up. "If you can take out Jesse when you can't even

eyebrows at me. "He might be the only one who can give you a run for your

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

my shoulder slumping slightly. "Tony would take too

looking down at me with interest. "You could probably learn a thing or

my head to the side at

intrigued, but Rafe sighs and turns towards the Castle "As fun as this is, we're running late for breakfast and should head in. I

and