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.

to my mate, and I stop short, casting 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 deep gasp of breath and then see it - the disturbance

trees, and a moment later Rafe's loud shout of

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

Ari?" Jesse growls, sitting up and glaring at me, brushing mud from the

for Jacks. He gives his usual snarl of delight when he

I laugh, shoving Jackson playfully away. "I want to chase Rafe

he offers a hand to Jesse and pulls him up. "If you can take out Jesse when you can't even see him I don't stand a

Rafe says, raising his eyebrows at me. "He might be the only one

he just gives me a little shrug, letting me know he doesn't mind. "Cool!" I say, 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."

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

of his assassin tricks, though," Jacks murmurs, looking

tilt my head to the side at

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

twists and turns