Their Hidden Princess (Zora) novel Chapter 210

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Chapter 210

The rest of my Monday went fairly well considering it’s explosive beginning. I went to my classes after leaving Kairos’s house. Luckily for me, I didn’t have shifting that day. I did, however, have a test in History of Wolves.

I was pretty sure I bombed it as I went to the cafeteria for lunch. Loren was reassuringly patting my back and telling me that I probably did fine when a tray was sat on our table. I looked up from sulking to Meg, Maximus’s sister, lobbing her leg over the bench to sit at our table. She gave me a small smile.

“Do yous mind?”

“Not at all,” I said with a shake of my head. I glanced at Loren. She looked confused.

“Don’t you want to sit with your friends?” she said, slowly.

Meg shook her head. “I’d like to get to know you guys if that’s okay?”

I glanced sideways at Loren. She went back eating, tentatively putting her salad in her mouth as she looked between Meg and I. I shrugged and went back

to moving the salad I was forcing myself to eat around my plate.

Luckily for us, Maximus chose that moment to sit next to his sister. Loren dropped her fork to clatter against her plate. She stretched her arms out to him.

“Mwwaaxx!” she garbled around food. “Ywour bwack!”

Maximus gently shook her hand before laughing and sitting down. “I am,” he said and beamed at me. I couldn’t help the way my cheeks warmed. I ducked back into my bland ass salad. Meg chuckled and bumped shoulders with

her brother.

We ate in quiet before Max cleared his throat. Everyone stopped to look at him. He turned to face me directly.

“Zora,” He said. “If you’re free tonight, I’d love for you to come to my room. Maybe we can watch some of those human films you’re always talking about?”

“Like Twilight?” I said, immediately.

“Isn’t that the one about vampires?” Meg chimed in.

I nodded enthusiastically. “Tell me you’ve seen it. It’s a work of art.”

“It’s about vampires,” Meg said, her nose twisting up. “I’ll pass.”

“It’s so good, Meg, I promise,” I continued to babble. Then I stopped and glance at Loren. I frowned as I remembered we had plans to study for High Magiks that night.

“Oh, but we had – oof!”

All the wind left my lungs as Loren jammed her elbow into my ribcage. I glared at her as she smiled back at me. Then she turned back to Max and his sister.

“She’d love to,” Loren answered for me.

“It’s a date,” Max said with a smirk.

“A date,” I said back, feeling the heat rise to my cheeks once again.

I went to the rest of my classes before picking up dinner to go from the cafeteria. I brought it back to my room to find Loren buzzing about. Half of my underwear was on the floor and she’d set a a matching red lacey bra and

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panty on my bed. She looked up at me as I walked in.

“Do you think Max is a red or blue guy?”

I laughed and shook my head. “I think were watching a movie and none of it matters,”

“That’s so code, Zora,” Loren scoffed. “He totally wants to bone you or bang you or whatever term you wanna use.”

I waved her off as I set my dinner down and threw my bag on the floor. Despite how strong I’d become, the weight of books in my backpack still made me ache. I started in on my dinner, reveling in the sight of the massive pile of baked beans on top of a potato,

I was about to put the first bite in my mouth when Loren gasped and yanked the fork away from me. Beans sloshed onto the carpet. I scowled at her and tried to grab my fork back.

“Loren, give me my fucking fork back!”

“Beans are going to make you fart!” She cried, holding the fork out of my reach. “That would be awful if he was down there at the same time.”

“Goddamn it, Loren!” I hissed. I wrestled the fork out of her arm and threw her the finger before diving back into my food. After I swallowed my first bite, I pointed my fork at her.

“Let’s talk about your love life, missy!”

Loren’s face fell and shrunk away. “Let’s not.”

“Have you even kissed Ani yet?” I threw back.

Loren shrugged and continued to stare at me. I watched as her face became redder and redder. Then, I gasped as it hit me.

“You have, haven’t you!?”

“It was, like, a peck–!”

“And you didn’t tell me?”

“Ugh, Zora you’re always so busy and-”

I stood up and wrapped my arms around Loren, lifting her up so her feet wiggled above the ground. She laughed into my chest before I put her back down. She looked up at me with her big, purple eyes.

“Congrats, lady killer,” I said.

“Thanks,” Loren mumbled. “I meant what I said about the beans!”

I couldn’t resist throwing her the finger again as I went back to my dinner.

An hour later, I was standing outside of Maximus’s room with my quilt wrapped around me and a stomach full of beans. I gently knocked on the front of Maximus’s door. I heard his feet pad across it to open it up. Then, he was standing in front of me.

He was in a nicer version of his training gear; an oversized tee with some band I didn’t know on it and navy track pants. His hair had recently been cut and was tight to his head again. He smiled, warmly at me.

“Hi,” he said.

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