The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 407

As we sit, I notice with a little smile the two dark figures who come to stand behind us – even more inconspicuous than we are. And I’m grateful for them – grateful for my dad for always wanting to keep me safe – even as I know that nothing’s going to happen. That even if anyone did want to hurt us, Luca – my mate – would protect me.

But, well. Dad’s will be dads.

“What do you think?” Luca asks, his voice more cheerful than it’s been all night as he sits down next to me and I hand his drink back to him.

“I love it,” I say, grinning at the orange light of the fire that’s slowly starting to spread out. The heat, too, that I can start to feel on my face. I tug my scarf down and take a sip of my whiskeyed cider, knowing no one will notice. “How big will the fire get?”

“Pretty big,” Luca murmurs, slipping an arm around me and taking a sip of his own drink. “Especially as the night passes, and people get…a little liquored up. And start burning all the old chairs they don’t want anymore.”

I burst out laughing, looking over and up at him. “Does that really happen?”

“Stick around, Princess,” he murmurs, smirking and still staring into the flames, taking another sip of his drink. “You’re in for one hell of a sight.”

I laugh, and snuggle closer to him, and enjoy the warmth of his body alongside the fire. We’re quiet for a long, long time as the fire builds and someone brings out some speakers, beginning to play old traditional songs that everyone knows and can sing along with.