The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0805 But suddenly Gabriel appears in the middle of my room and strides immediately for me. "You are not to go there," he snarls. "Sleeping there!? In the Darkness!? What were you thinking!?"

I cringe away from him again even as my wolf snarls.

"Gabriel," Elias says, his voice warning. "Reel it in."

To my shock, Gabriel does as Elias says, stopping before he reaches the side of the bed and comes within arm's distance of me. Still, he turns his furious face back to mine. "Did you like the pretty cage I built for you, pet?" he growls, leaning forward to stare into my eyes. "So that even if you try to escape me by going to the Land of Darkness, I've still got you trapped."

I realize it all with sudden clarity that rather takes my breath away. That all of those cages in the Land of Darkness - they're for me. Just in case I try to run away using that world - because, somehow, I'm better at it than him. Better at shifting there, better at navigating it, because he only dedicated himself to Darkness five years ago.

But me? I've had this gift since I was born.

I fight, hard, to keep a smile from curling on my lips. But the desire to keep my pleasure hidden is aided

by the realization that...it must have taken ages for them to build all of those cages in the other world - the miles and miles of steel fence to keep me trapped.

Which means that they've been planning to trap me for...a long, long time.

I look up into my mate's seething face and suddenly make a decision that I...do not want to be in his presence any longer.

And so I shift again, as easily as breathing, my eyes catching a sly smile on Elias's face as he watches me go.

I'm back in my bedding in that dark world, looking up at the moons that still hang in the sky, letting that smile come

other, his talisman - whatever that is - will

mollified by this tiny victory, and curl up in my stolen duvet, looking up at the sky,

the idea that sitting alone in a cage in a wasteland world is

that this is going to be along road. Wondering, honestly, how I'm going to survive here.

if it's the only place where I can even start

of his palms against his closed eyes, laying flat on the ground in the yurt

a week

in this

though it's hard to tel because there's no sun and no clocks and time is...weird

passed, he's never,

the other hand,

cards again!?" she asks,

drops his hands to his chest, turning his head to

in front of her, shuffling them up. In this past week they made a little deck of cards and

him for all that he was

on!" Midnight urges, grinning at him.

shaking his head. "I don't need

replies, laughing.