The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 313

“Have fun with mom,” I say, straightening up. “She’s nice to you, right?”

“She’s so nice to me.” He replies, eyes wide, like he can’t believe how nice mom is to him. But we all know her, and so we just smile again, pleased to see him feeling cozy and cared for.

“Okay, we’ll be back as soon as we can,” Rafe says, turning towards the door. “And then we’ll try to come rescue you before mom picks out your 80(th) pair of shoes.”

“That’s impossible…” Jackson murmurs with a frown, standing to follow us out the door and go find mom. “80 pairs of shoes…no one has that many.”

“So, you haven’t shown him your closet yet?” Jesse asks, grinning at me.

“I am a lady, Jesse,” I say, waving goodbye to Jacks as he turns back towards the breakfast room, “Jackson has seen no part of my room, let alone my closet. A princess must keep her secrets.”

“Oh, yeah right,” Jesse laughs, striding forward with me and Rafe towards the front of the palace, where the car they’ve arranged is waiting. “You have simply lacked the opportunity.”

“Yeah well,” I murmur, pitching my voice low so Rafe doesn’t hear me as well. “If I did get him in my room, I wouldn’t be showing him my shoes.”

Jesse bursts into laugher but then turns it into a gag, pretending to be horrified and disgusted at the idea, which just makes me laugh more. Rafe gives us a little glare as we reach the car, wondering what’s going on, but we just wave him off and he shrugs, deciding that he’s better off not knowing.

When we all climb into the car, though, things turn a little bit more serious as we all mutually turn our minds back to the problem at hand. I’m a little bit grateful, if I’m being honest, for the distraction that a bit of laughter brought me – it’s been kind of an intense morning. But now that we’re driving the short distance to Luca’s house, I set my mind on what’s really important: getting to the bottom of who released this information, and what the consequences should be.

Because if it really was Luca – I mean, I’m going to be devastated.

But how, honestly, should I react?

Should I…break up with him? Refuse to go to the fight? But no, even if I’ll be horribly hurt, both of those options seem just…way too extreme.

My wolf turns anxiously inside me at the idea of breaking up with Luca, about what that would do to our heart. But what, really, would my option be? Because…even if he’s my mate, I couldn’t let him walk all over me like that.

But did he even do it? And if he didn’t, who did?