The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 655

Jesse grabs another taco off the table, clearly not having as much of a problem with appetite as I am having. “All right, Tones, spill.”

Tony sighs, and begins again. “I spent hours in that club cleaning up after Luca, collecting his shitty tips. So, imagine my surprise a few weeks ago when he shows up next to you outside my meeting with your parents and introduces himself for the first time. As if we’ve never met. Although it’s not like I should be surprised – he never said a word to me or spared me a second glance.”

“But you…” I frown, trying to remember that moment when Tony and Luca met. “You didn’t say you knew him – you said something about it being a big morning for meeting celebrities. Or something like that. And then said it was nice to meet him.”

“Yeah,” Tony says with a shrug. “What was I supposed to do, be like, ‘Remember me? I served you a thousand gin-and-tonics and watched you use the same lines on about a thousand different girls all summer?’ Plus, his mate’s parents were in the room behind me,” he shrugs. “I wasn’t going to pick a fight.”

“Just saved that,” Jesse says, grinning at him. “For a later time.”

“Nah, I don’t need to pick a fight with Luca Grant,” Tony says, settling back against the chair. “That guy’s going to dig his own grave.”

I frown at Tony, not fully sure I like where this is going.

Ben glances anxiously at me. “All right, Tony, lets pick up the pace,” he murmurs, snapping his fingers a bit. “What are the details Ari needs to know. This isn’t…the nicest conversation for her to listen to.”

“You’re right, I’m sorry,” Tony says, glancing at Ben and then looking back at me. “What I’m trying to get at, Ari, is that Luca knows girls. I don’t think he’s deliberately a jerk, but I think he has a type – and that type is nice, pretty, sensitive girls from good families who have been raised to have empathy and believe the best in people. Those were the ones he was drawn to – the ones he kept bringing around. And then who he ruthlessly manipulated into letting him behave however the hell he wanted, which was never considerate of their wants and needs.”

“So imagine his luck,” Jesse murmurs, turning his eyes to me. “When the Goddess blesses him with the nicest, most sensitive and empathetic girl in town.”