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.

me, his hands getting lost in his hair as

even if Luca and I greatly misunderstood what was happening today, I see his side of it - I see what he means. He thought that breaking

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

has happened since then - so much has grown and changed

up to him. "A man only gets one chance to mark

then, because he's right. It shouldn't have been

my head and starting to tremble, grief hitting me again foreverything that has been lost and ruined in these past few days. I

a nasty tone in his voice now. "Why, because that's what

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

His wolf snarls in my soul, prowling towards mine. "It's always about him -

not what it's like -

maybe you

"If he always does everything right and he's so fucking perfect, maybe you should have had your first time with him! And

stare at Luca, dread coiling within

between us