The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0741

"And is - is his face all bruised?" Ariel asks, looking closer at a rare picture in which he's not wearing sunglasses. "Do we have any idea where that came from?"

"We don't," Ella sighs, looking steadily at her daughter, watching her reaction. "But I don't have to make a ton of guesses, considering your line of supporters who would leap at the chance to give him a good punch.'

"And why is he all...wet all the time?" Ariel asks, frowning, leaning closer. "No one else is..." "That...might be me," Cora says, quite innocent.

The other three go silent and then turn to her, shocked.

"What, I'm your godmother," she says, shrugging, fighting a smug smile. "If you didn't want me to have a tiny rain cloud chasing your douchebag ex around the city wherever he goes, you should have said so in the first place."

Ariel lets out a sputtering little laugh as Ella and Daphne look at her anxiously. But when Ariel's shock fades and it turns into real, true laughter, everyone joins in to the point where they're all wiping tears from their cheeks, leaning against each other for support.

"Cora," Ariel laughs, hugging her aunt and resting her head on her shoulder. "Please take it away - it's so mean -"

at least a few more days

right," Ariel sighs.

more lightening, you mean," Cora coos,

sighs. "I had to zap his ass a few times to send a message. Don't mess with the Sinclairs -

are her family now, grateful to the depths of herself to have them on her side. "You guys are the best," she whispers, breaking

hug. "Who knew, all we had to do was zap Luca with a little magical lightening and you'd feel better. It would have saved us a great deal of expense

more spa treatments too," Ariel

says with a

later,

like butter and filled to the brim with every single desert that room service could think to create, trest curled up

that the time is nearly up. That this has

spent a long

all. I tell her everything what the Goddess said about needing all of my mates' marks, and me deciding not to tell Luca and Jacks so the marks could be freely given. And about sleeping with Jackson first and how right it felt, and how sorry I was when he didn't mark me, but

happened in his room, with the wine and the whiskey and the sex the mark the rejection, all so fast. How it all feels like it was my fault, and how if I'd just