The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0782 "Yeah!" she says, excited, almost skipping forward. "Isn't it great?" She clasps her hands excitedly under her chin.

Jesse groans, his head falling back on his neck. But he slips his hands into his pockets and follows his strange, tiny mate to her bizarre little home.

Its difficult to wake up, to pull myself from the fog of sleep. I groan, rolling over in my blankets, burying my head in the pillow and fighting against the headache that pounds in the back of my head. I stretch my hand out, looking for Jacks, wondering why on earth he's not beneath me like he always is but -

I lift my head when my hand just stretches out across cool sheets, finding no one there.

And then I gasp, sitting up straight, spinning and staring around the strange and luxurious room. Because I have...absolutely no idea where I am.

I begin to pant as my memories come back to me all in a rush. The battlefield - and sending flames

everywhere - and being thrown aside, Jackson running for me, and that man grabbing me, pulling me into another world-

I groan again, putting my hands over my face and sinking back into the pillows, because it's not just some man it's my mate.

mate. And god, a fucking Atalaxian royal at

was

"Hello?"

still at the sound of the soft voice, keeping my hands over my face, too shocked to move. "Ariel?" Footsteps come into the room and I sit bolt upright as my instincts

her eyes going wide as she lifts her hands close

because this woman - she's tiny, and demure, and beautifully dressed, and

my fangs

for me, warm and motherly even though she's so young - god, is she more than sixteen? Her hands

stare

she is being very, very sweet. And after last night, this

isn't what you expected, my dear, is it?" She tilts her head as she stares at me, clicking

my words.

you and me for now - those are the rules. The boys can't come into the room until we say that they can, alright? I know it's different in Moon Valley where men just invade your space whenever they

frown at her because...what? But she moves