The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 726

He kicks the door open when he gets there, snapping the lock and gritting his teeth when he realizes that he’ll just have to replace it. Regret fills him fully then, both for the door and his harsh thoughts towards his sister, neither of which deserved his treatment.

But he’s just so…pissed.

Rafe sighs, working hard to calm himself as he steps into the room. He looks down at his little sister in his arms, unconscious but breathing steadily, and knows he doesn’t mean any of it. That he loves her, and is devastated for her, and just wants to fix the entire world so that things can just be easy for her sake, even if it means harder for his.

“But that’s not your story, is it, trouble?” he murmurs, hefting her a bit in his arms, quite gentle, and carrying her over to her nook. There he settles her quite gently on the bed, taking a great deal of time to nestle her comfortably into the pillows and the blankets, ensuring that she has her favorite green one close by, pressed soft against her cheek. Then he lays several more warm blankets on top, tucking her in safe, terrified she’ll be cold.

When Rafe stands, trembling a bit, and stares at her, he realizes again just how tiny she is, like a little rabbit.

So tiny, but so, so good – and so powerful – and so important.

“That fucking idiot,” Rafe growls, running a frustrated hand through his hair as he grits his teeth. “Didn’t even realize what he had.” He sighs, putting his hands on his hips and staring at his sister who breathes peacefully. “What do you think, Ari, should we chop his head off? Or do you want to burn him to cinders?”

He waits. She doesn’t say anything.

And Rafe’s heart breaks for his little sister, who deserves so much better than this.

“I’m…I’m going to go across the room,” he whispers, leaning close to her, speaking soft around the knot in his throat. “To get the first aid kit, all right?” He points to it, as if that’s going to help.

Then he laughs at himself even as tears sting his eyes, because obviously she doesn’t hear him. Rafe turns and strides away to the shelf where they keep the little kit of gauze and ointment. He’s back halfway across the room when someone slams into the door and gasps when it flies open.

Rafe turns snarling towards it, his hands gripping the first aid kit so tight it cracks, but he loosens his grip when Jesse comes stumbling into the room, gasping, his face as pale as a ghost.