The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0722

"So!?" I say, leaning forward in turn and matching his tone, my hand still clamped to the wound on my neck.

"So- so we had sex!" Luca shouts, baffled and freaked out and afraid. "So you picked me! You picked me, Ariel! I gave you my mark because you picked me!"

I go perfectly still as I stare at Luca, my mouth slightly open.

Because that...that is not at all what happened.

I mean, we just had sex - we had a horrible few days, and had a bunch to drink, and we took refuge in each other -

And I love Luca desperately, but I did not choose him.

"Luca," I say, quite slow, "I did not pick you. I am not rejecting Jackson. We just had sex -"

"It's the same thing!" he roars, staring at me like I'm insane, or that he might be going insane, or that the world itself is broken and horrible and he's somehow just lost in it.

them on before striding away from me, his hands getting lost in his hair as he turns his back to me, attempting to put the shattered

gathering the blankets to my chest and looking down at my shaking hands. Because even if Luca and I greatly misunderstood what was happening today, I see his side of it - I see

may have even been the wording - god, I don't even remember - that I wouldn't have sex with one of them until

happened since then - so much

too, you know," Luca snaps, turning back towards me suddenly and drawing my eyes up to him. "A man only gets one chance to mark his mate. I never precisely imagined that the moment I did it that you'd say 'no' and shove me away and

because he's right. It shouldn't have been this way for

foreverything that has been lost and ruined in

in his voice

are you being like this?" I cry out, turning my head back up to him, my lower lip trembling in my agony. "Why are you even talking

Luca snarls, glaring at me like he hates me. His wolf snarls in my soul, prowling towards mine. "It's always about him - he's

- Jackson would never do

maybe you should

perfect, maybe

dread coiling within me, and slowly close

in the room between us as