The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 647

But as soon as I begin to pull on my bond with Luca, I feel an immediate…stop. Or a plug, or a…dam or something.

I turn to my mate, frowning up at him. Luca, I say, directly into his mind, making him turn his eyes to me. Can you please open the bond? This is…important to me.

He clenches his teeth a little bit, looking deep into my eyes. This is all freaking me out, Ariel.

I glance around at everyone watching and then look back up at him. Please, Luca, I say, letting him hear my little wolf whine her tiny plea. I think it’s important that we…know.

Luca sighs and looks away from me, but slowly I feel the wall drop, feel our bond open, as it was so much more often at the start of our relationship. I mean, it’s not like it was that night in the woods, but it’s better than a few moments ago. I send Luca a warm pulse of thanks and then turn my eyes back towards the little log, concentrating on it as I connect. As I start to pull, as I do with Jackson.

The heat within me engages, concentrating on the log, but to my utter shock something…else begins to stir as well.

And all through the little clearing, a slight wind begins to blow, warm like a summer breeze.

I gasp a little at the same moment that Luca does, and our eyes flash to each other as we both simultaneously remember the sensation that we used to notice when he touched me – that tingle across my skin, and across his – that tingle that’s still there, but which we just…I don’t know, got used to or something.

That tingle which I never, ever realized feels exactly like a breeze blowing across bare skin.

Feels exactly, precisely like this air moving around us right now.

“Holy shit,” Luca whispers, staring down at me in shock.

My face bursts into a smile and I beam up at him. “Holy shit is right.”

Luca can’t help it then, his own face breaks into a smile and he shakes his head in awe as he stares down at me.

“What?” Jesse asks, standing at his mom’s side with the fire blanket in his hands, at the ready. “What’s happening? I don’t get it.”