The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 861

Jackson, Gabriel, and I immediately focus on the bedroom door, which is roughly splintered now, just moments from being ripped from it hinges. I squeeze their hands, suddenly thinking that my decision to come back here might be a little rash –

Who is on the other side of that door?

What are their orders?

Gabriel groans, his legs buckling beneath him in his weakened state, falling back against the bed.

“Oh, for heaven’s sake,” Jackson growls, storming for him and ducking one shoulder beneath Gabriel’s arm, standing again and propping my other mate up. “When they come through that door, you need to be a cruel Prince again. Can you manage that?”

Gabriel growls a bit, glaring at Jackson, even as he nods. “Ariel,” he says, gesturing to his side, begging me to come there. “They need to believe you’re on my side.”

I nod and immediately move there, tucking my hands behind my back and attempting to look as innocent as I can, like I didn’t just poison their Prince.

Almost the instant that I take my spot the door shatters, pieces of it coming slamming down.

Soldiers shout as they flood into the room, but they stutter to an awkward stop as they see the Prince standing before them, a nasty sneer on his face, apparently quite well – even if he does have his arm around a sneering Alpha that they don’t recognize.

“Is this how you enter my Luna’s chambers?” Gabriel snarls, and I snap my head to him, a bit surprised at how easily he falls into his old persona.

“Sir!” the soldier in front says, dipping into a quick bow. “We thought you were in danger! We –“

“Danger?” Gabriel sneers, laughing low. “At my Luna’s hand!? You fool. I’ll have your head for this.”

The soldiers look awkwardly at Jackson, still not getting it, but Gabriel’s authority is absolute. “Be gone!” he snaps, waving a hand at them. “If I wished to be disturbed I would have answered the door, you idiots –“

Still not understanding the soldiers begin to back away.

Jackson nods and strides forward so fast that I have to run to catch up.

The guards at the door hesitate at Gabriel’s command to step aside, but when Jackson again places my mate on his feet and the Prince takes a few unsteady steps forward, snarling at them to obey their monarch and fall back if they value their lives, they obey. The guards scatter as we open the door.

“Hi, hi!” I say, frantic and fast, bursting into the room. All of our Moon Valley ambassadors turn to me with wide-eyed surprise and fear, though their terror abates slightly when they see Jackson at my side. I scowl a bit, not liking that he instills relieved confidence when I do not.

“Okay, everyone join hands, please!”

“What?” the oldest Ambassador says, stepping forward. “Princess, we have to –“

“Hold. Fucking. Hands,” Jackson growls, the Alpha command heavy in his voice as he steps aggressively towards my father’s men, the implication that he’ll tear them apart if they don’t clear in his violent snarl.