The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0964

"Oh, come on, Luc," I say, laughing a little, delighted at the shock on his face. "Of my three mates, you were never the one who I thought needed the 'where do babies come from' chat -"

"Who the hell was he sleeping with!?" Luca whispers, shocked, still staring up at Jackson and his little girl in the window. Luca runs a mystified hand through his hair. "He's such - he's so awkward - how did he get a girl -"

"He's also insanely hot," I point out, raising my brows at him. "I don't think it's very hard for him."

Luca scowls a little, snapping his eyes back to mine. "He's not that good looking."

I just lift a hand to tap at the magazines still pressed to my chest. "The people are with me on this one, Luca. Jackson's a babe."

Luca ignores this very valid point. "Is that - is that like his biological kid!? Or did he just like, snag one off the street -"

"Please, he's not my mom," I say, rolling my eyes. "She's his! That's his daughter, Marigold. She's great!"

Luca's eyes flash back to me. "She's great!?"

at him, challenging him to try that

a great kid," Luca says, shaking his head as if to clear it. "But Ariel, you can't tell me that you're actually happy about

I scoff, kind of appalled

like I'm a little crazy. "Now Jackson's what, a

"What did you expect I'd do, just kick him out the door at the first big challenge? I

up to his full height. "You shouldn't have to raise someone else's kid just because Jackson made some kind

beginning to simmer in my heart. "Is you thinking that it won't be the honor of my life

stops him before he touches me and his arms fall to his sides. Still, he persists, holding my gaze steadily. "I'm serious - you deserve your own family without these complications!" He shakes

I say, tilting my head to the side, ironic. "If

offer? Be his Queen and have a whole bunch of Princes and Princesses with pretty black hair

that his offer to me

and tilting

window, where I can feel