The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 633

I straighten, frowning at Luca in turn, still completely shocked that the mood has changed so completely within the past thirty seconds and not liking at all where this is going. I straighten my shoulders, narrowing my eyes at my mate. “This isn’t about what I do with Jackson,” I snap, looking at him evenly. “I’m asking you about you. About your wolf.”

Luca scowls, looking away from me and curling his shoulders inward, looking for all things…lost, and self-conscious. “Can we just…leave my wolf out of this?” he murmurs.

“Why?” I ask, barely a whisper.

“Because I asked you to,” Luca snaps, glaring at me from the corner of his eye.

I sit even straighter, staring at my mate, completely unused to being iced out like this. But as I watch him, I realize that Luca is being nasty to me right now because he’s…hiding something. Because he’s hurt, or afraid.

I tuck my own anger away, making a mental point to talk about this particular method of confrontation at a later time, and instead turning to the real problem at hand: the fact that I’m not sure I’ve…ever met Luca’s wolf. Except that one time when he completely lost his cool the day he found out I have another mate – when he shifted, and he and Jacks attacked each other.

I stare at my mate, trying to figure it out as he stares moodily into the trees, working hard to control his breathing. As he does I concentrate on our bond, on my little rose-gold wolf whom I love so much, who is such a friend to me, as she nudges the bond with her nose, forcing it to become a bridge between our souls.

It’s so much…harder than it is with Jackson, who has always been so open to me.

Luca flinches, turning to glare at me a little bit harder. “What are you doing?” he snarls.

I don’t answer as my wolf moves slowly across the bond bridge to his side, nudging at the wall she finds there.

“Would you stop that?” he snaps.