The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 418

“I don’t know yet,” Juniper murmurs, her eyes going distant as she stares off into space. “But…something big. I want to do all of it. I want…I want to do everything, feel everything. See…the whole world.”

Cora lets her hand drift away from Juniper and both she and my mom look at my little sister with a great deal of soft love in their eyes. But they let Junie have her space, turning away with each other to open another bottle of wine.

When they’re gone, I step closer to Junie, slipping an arm around her waist and pouring more of my wine in her cup. “Don’t write off mates so fast, June,” I murmur. She turns to me with a frown, combative. But as usual, it just makes me grin. “You know, the goddess wouldn’t give you a mate that wasn’t suited to your hopes and your dreams, your fate. If you want a big life, your mate will too.”

Junie just leans her weight on me and sighs, shaking her head as she takes a sip of the wine and turning back to the boys. “These Alphas,” she murmurs. “They just seem to…steamroll their mates into whatever life it is they want. Like, mom was never going to be a Queen until she met dad. And Cora’s not a doctor anymore – not really. She’s just a mom.”

“Cora and mom do a lot of work healing people in the community, and they’re both very happy with the work they do,” I murmur, needing to point that out and trying to strike a balance between the truth and letting my sister make her point. “But…I mean, Jackson doesn’t steamroll me. Not yet.”

“He’s known he’s your mate for like, a week,” Juniper points out, dry, glancing at me. “Give him a minute.”

I burst out laughing, tightening my arm around her. “Well, if he does, then I’ll have my little Junepiper come and beat him up.”

Juniper smirks at the old nickname – what Mark used to call her when he stumbled over his words a lot as a kid. But she still sighs, and shakes her head, looking at me out of the corner of her eye. “And what about the other one?” she asks.

“Luca?” I ask, a little surprised.

Juniper nods, looking at me fully now.