Their Hidden Princess (Zora) novel Chapter 191

Chapter 191

Zora

As bleak as my future with four fated mates looked, I couldn’t give up.

Maybe it was that the vampires were already mobile. I’d heard through the rumor mill there’d been another. attack in the village nearby campus. Only this time, they’d taken no prisoners.

Maybe it was that my body ached from want so much I was beginning to lose focus. Any time any of my four fated mates, save for Thorne who I ignored as much as he ignored me, was in the same room as me, I was hot. I fidgeted and squirmed and was generally uncomfortable in their prescience. I’d almost launched myself at Maximus during basics one morning.

Maybe it was that I felt like part of me was missing. I never felt as whole as I did when I was with all three of them. Training with Valentin in the mornings had become my favorite part of the day. Instead of begrudgingly rolling out of bed, I jumped up and found myself almost sprinting to be close to them all.

It was exactly how I’d started the morning I came up with my grand plan to win them all over. As I walked across the campus, covered in melting snow, I figured it out. If I was all fidgety and hot and bothered, there was no way they weren’t either. Sure, Maximus and I had already jumped each other’s bones and Kairos and I had gotten damn close. But I saw the way their dark eyes tracked me across the gym each morning. They were as insatiable as I was.

If I could manage to seduce Valentin and Kairos into falling for me, I’d have what I wanted. As I walked into the gym, their dark eyes were on me again. I almost laughed, it’d be a piece of cake.

I turned on the charm that morning, making sure I was touching Kairos or Valentin at all points during training. Maximus let out low growls a few times and even grabbed me by the elbow and told me it wasn’t going to work. But I ignored him and continued and work on swaying my hips and touching my fated mates enough that at the end of training, Valentin nearly sprinted from the room. I smirked at myself. It seemed my plan was working.

The next phase was individually giving the men attention. It started at shifting class, later that day. Kairos was still our teaching assistant. The class had grown slightly in size due to the wolves who’d progressed in their skills. Now, the class was around ten people. As I broke into the clearing, I frowned at them.

This would make my flirting a little harder.

“Smith,” Kairos barked. “You’re late.”

“Sorry,” I said. I tossed my long braid over my shoulder and put on my sultriest smirk. “Beauty takes time.”

A few of my old classmates rolled their eyes. The newer ones seemed to be shocked. Kairos growled under his breath but I watched as his pupils blew out over his dark gold eyes.

Bingo.

“We’re working on a running shift today,” Kairos said. “Follow me to the river.”

We wound through the trees until we came across a river, almost as wide as my dorm room. The water was calm but running loud enough that Kairos had to shout over it. He gestured to the river.

“Human legs won’t propel you far enough to cross,” he yelled. “The goal is to press off your back wolf legs and

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throw yourself across. I’ll demonstrate first.”

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He stalked back over to where the rest of us were standing. His back was facing me. I watched the ripple of his muscles under his tight shirt. My fingers twitched to touch him to feel the muscle move under my fingers. Just as I was about to, he took off in a sprint.

Kairos got to the bank of the river before his entire body shook with the shift. His back paws dug into the mud touching the water and his auburn wolf launched across the river. It skittered to a stop on the other side. A few of the students next to me clapped and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. Suck ups.

Is flirting with High Alpha Moonraiser not “sucking up” as well? Mona mused as she cleaned her paws.

Shut up, I threw back. Do you want to become stronger or not?

Mona huffed them darted back off into the back of my mind again. Kairos jumped back over the river, leisurely then shifted back to his human form. He walked over to the rest of us and bracketed his hands on his hips.

“Line up,” he snapped. Everyone shuffled into a line and I found myself at the back of it. Kairos raised an eyebrow but continued.

“I’ll stand here to talk you through the motions,” he said. “Once you get across, shift back and wait there. Then, we’ll cross back.”

All of my classmates nodded. One of the girls in front of me smirked and nudged her friend with her elbow.

“Not the only thing I’d like him to talk me through, huh?”

Jealousy flooded me. “He’s not going to talk to you at all if you don’t make it over the river,” I snapped. “So, I’d focus on that.”

The girl narrowed her eyes at me then turned back around to whisper with her friend. They were probably talking shit about me. I wish I cared.

One by one, the wolves took off and launched themselves over the river. Almost everyone did it seamlessly. The two girls in front of me struggled a little bit and I couldn’t help but bark out a laugh as one of them landed in the water a good foot from the edge of the river.

Kairos jerked his head to look at me, eyebrow raised. I shrugged. “They weren’t focusing on the task,” I said.

“I heard,” Kairos said plainly. “I also heard what you said.”

I cocked my head. “And what did I say, Alpha Moonraiser?”

Kairos’s eyes blew wide for a moment. He dipped his head so I could whisper into the shell of my ear. His breath floated over my body like an aphrodisiac.

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