The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 335

Chapter 0335

"I don't know," Daphne says, tilting her head and narrowing her eyes a little in a challenge. "Are your Midwinter cookies any good?"

Jesse sighs sharply. "Nah, our cookies are crap."

Daphne bursts out laughing again, and Jesse goes with her.

"Seriously," Jesse continues, shaking his head. "Mom isn't particularly domestic, so all our cookies are store bought, and they're gone in like eight seconds. You have to fight to the death to get your hands on one. Chase - he'll bite you, and Bella, she has this really pointy stick -"

"Oh, I'm sure it's not all that bad," Daphne murmurs, still grinning, her eyes slipping down over Jesse even though she didn't mean them to.

"No," he sighs, leaning against the wall and giving her a smile. "I assure you, it is. In fact, mom, dad, and I aren't out on the town tonight - the children have staged a coup and barred us from the house. It's chaos over there - complete child anarchy. We fear that we're going to return home to all of the living room furniture torn to pieces, scrapped for firewood and spare parts for their tree fort."

"And yet, something tells me that's precisely how you like it," Daphne says, leaning against the wall with her chin in her hand, studying him.

"Well," he says, leaning a little closer like it's a great secret. "Someone had to teach them what a coup was. And they let me sleep in the yard, which is more than they allow mom and dad. I get a little bowl of scraps and a torn blanket when I come begging."

Daphne laughs again, light. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ FɪndNovᴇl.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"Come on," Jesse murmurs, his face falling into more serious lines. "Stay. It's...good, having you here."

"Is it?" she asks, wrinkling her nose a little bit. "I've barely seen you, Jess."

"Well," he sighs, leaning a little closer, folding his arms on the wall so that his face is level with hers. He hardly blinks as he stares at her, his eyes moving slowly over her face. "That's not my fault, is it? Someone is letting her time be rather monopolized by one of my cousins. And not the cousin I would prefer."

Daphne's mouth twists a bit as she fights a smile. "And which cousin would you prefer?"

"I think I'm okay for right now," she says, watching him carefully.

Jesse just nods once and strides away.

And Daphne watches him go. Every step.

"That's one hell of a dress, young lady," dad says to me, a little bit of a growl in his voice.

"Juniper stole mine!" I say, my face the picture of innocence as I point at my little sister, completely ratting her out. My mom works very hard to hide her smirk. "This was the only thing that was left in my closet."