The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0889

The gas station clerk pages languidly through the magazine he's read a hundred times already this month, bored as hell. He sighs, lifting his head to look around the tiny room of this little desert outpost - the room that serves not only as a convenience store, but also a bar, and a tiny casino. There are also rooms upstairs for rent - not that anyone stays more than a day.

"Boring as hell today," he murmurs, returning his eyes to the page. "But it's a living."

A rumble outside makes the clerk stand up and peer out the window behind him at the waste, wondering who would come in this close to sunset. There are some locals who make a living out here, and some adventurer types who want to see the sights in their camper vans and motorcycles, but he wasn't expecting anyone to return today...

He frowns as he watches a single ATV approach, kicking up dust behind it towards the setting sun. The clerk's eyes go wide as the ATV pulls close enough for him to see the seriously gigantic guy driving it - clearly a wolf, and an Alpha at that.

But seated on the ATV front of him -

her huge scarred protector, her lovely rose- gold hair flowing all around her as she smiles and takes his hand. The Alpha likewise stands,

clerk just continues to stare as the pair come into

out of

scariest damn wolf he's ever seen walking into his store - his store,

dazzling smile as she strides confidently up to

a step back to get a better look both at the beautiful girl and the man standing behind her, who growls a soft warning. And as much as the clerk's eyes want to stay on the angel before him, his instincts won't let him take his sight away from the snarling, tagged Alpha - because is that -

all down his front? The clerk goes pale and

at the magazines in the rack next to the checkout, several of which read Kidnapped Princess! The clerk blushes when he realizes that he's also carrying several more scandalous titles, the covers of which declare her a traitor to her nation and show pictures of her in an Atalaxian crown, beaming at their damned

drawing the clerk's eyes back to him.

He nearly jumps when the Princess turns that stunning gaze back on him. "But yes, um. Would you mind? If we made a call?" She points at the phone on the counter