The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 970

Mark watches Pippa carefully, still completely at a loss regarding what to do or say to calm her down, to let her know that it’s all right. Because she’s right – completely right. None of this is simple. She is, by all accounts, married to another man and newly the mother of his child.

But despite all of that, besides her slim little chest heaving with anger, Mark notes that…Pippa doesn’t leave the alcove.

And it’s not because he’s keeping her here by force.

Be cool, be cool, his wolf cautions, even has he fails to take that advice himself and darts anxiously back and forth in Mark’s soul.

Mark exhales slowly and holds Pippa’s gaze. “Your situation is even more complex than you’re painting it,” he says, doing his damn best to stay calm.

Pippa stiffens, her shoulders straightening as she glares at him. “By which you mean?”

He raises an eyebrow at her. “You’re leaving out the fact that your Alpha is mated to someone else as well. Happily so, by all accounts.”

Pippa inhales deeply through her nose, her eyes flaring as she glares at Mark.

His wolf howls in his soul, anguished, wondering if it was the wrong thing to say.

But damn it, what the hell is the right thing to say in a situation like this?

“Elias will never leave me,” Pippa says, her voice tight, lifting the baby higher in her arms. Mark’s eyes move for a moment to little Bianca, seeing that she’s calming somehow, his heart gladdening for it. Because that little baby – she’s not even his child, and he feels…such a tie to her. His mate’s little girl – of course she’s precious to him.

“I’m not really…concerned with Elias right now,” Mark says quietly, sighing as he runs his hand through his hair. “Pippa, can we just…talk? Normally? I mean, you’re so resistant to this, but I’m not going away.”

“I wish you would!” she snaps.

“What, so you can hang out alone in the alcove?” Mark asks, sarcastic, waving around to it. But then he drops his hand, a little ashamed at himself for snapping like that.