The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 375

Chapter 0375

"Ariel," Jesse says, tightening the hand on my shoulder as he grins at me. "This isn't going to wash off like my scent markings in the Academy did. Jackson's.... in your pores now. For a couple of days, every Luna you meet is going to be begging to see your new mark, and every Alpha is going to be giving you some distance, lest Jacks bites his head off."

Luca just stands, tense, against the bed, his mouth pressed shut and his throat working like he's fighting strong nausea. But I can't pay attention now, turning to Jesse, desperate for more information. But Rafe interrupts.

*And dad," Rafe says, his grin deepening, "is going to flip."

"What!?" I shriek, totally freaked out now, looking between them and then over at Jacks. "But I! We didn't! I don't have his mark! We just..."

I groan, and drop my face into my hands, mortified.

Because Rafe and Jesse are too polite to say it, but what they really mean is that I now smell like Jackson and I were up fucking all night, consummating our mating bond and making it official.

But we weren't!

"Why does scent marking even exist," I moan against my palms. "If it does the same thing as giving someone your mark?"

*To claim someone before you mark them," Rafe says, and I lift my head in time to see him giving a little shrug." Or to..." he laughs a little here, "claim a second or a third person, as part of your harem, when you've already given your mark to someone else. I mean, an antiquated use considering that polygamous relationships aren't really a thing anymore but," he shugs, "I can see how it would make sense."

I groan, tilting my head back, thinking that that hits a little too close to home in this case and Jesse and Rafe laugh. Gently, not cruel, but seeing the humor in it in a way that I can't just yet.

"I'm so glad this is all so fucking hilarious to everyone," Luca snaps, and when I turn my head to him I see his shoulders still trembling slightly as he glares around at each of us in turn. "Now could everyone please fucking leave, so I can have a conversation with my mate about why she left the me at the club early last night, claiming she was tired, only to climb into McClintock's bed and apparently stay up for hours?"

My mouth drops open in shock at the accusation in that.

But even as it does, my mind turns to my sneaky wolf who pretended to be sleepy last night, who now turns in a guilty circle inside of me, her head hanging low. Instantly, I snap the bond shut to both Luca and Jackson, not wanting them to know her role in this.