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 -"

least a few more days of that. Luca pissed off the wrong girl's family - he's

sighs. "But

you mean," Cora coos, grinning.

had to zap his ass a few times to send a message. Don't mess with

now, grateful to the depths of herself to have them on her side. "You guys

geeze," Daphne says, wrapping her friend up in a hug. "Who knew, all we had to do was zap Luca with a little magical lightening and you'd feel better. It would have

Ariel murmurs into Daphne's

that we can do, trouble," Ella says with a happy smile, moving for the freezer. "That we

hours later,

trest curled up at my mom's side while Cora

but...knowing that the time is nearly up. That this has given me enough

I spent a long

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 how much sense it made when he

the mark the rejection, all so fast. How it all feels like it was my fault, and how if