Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 104 Zora | left my first new training session with Valentin in a shit mood. | was annoyed to no end that | couldn't make myself shift in front of Thorne. Fucking dickwad would probably hold that over me. But, Mona was even more pissed. | don't understand, she spat in the back of my mind, pacing. He's not even our mate anymore. Why does he have this hold over us? Hell, if | know, | grumbled back. | looked down at my hand and focused on the feeling of dirt under my paws. My hand immediate shifted into a paw, fur sprouting from my skin down to my elbow.

With a clench of my fist, | was fully human again. | don't get it either, | mused as | left the locker room. | was back in my day clothes post-+training and had about an hour until my first class. My curls were wet and pinned back in a braid behind me. | shrugged my bag higher on my shoulder as | walked. across campus to the cafeteria. | don't even like Thorne, | continued my thought. If I'd been embarrassed to shift in front of anybody it'd be Valentin. | have a raging crush on him. Glad you're finally admitting it, Mona wolfishly chuckled. But this ---- shifting business is peculiar.

Do you think it has something to do with the bond rejection? | asked her. Perhaps, she mused. Some kind of sub-conscious nerves? | sat on that thought as | reached the main lawn of campus. Did Thorne make me nervous? Kind of. Well, yes, actually. My secret was the least safe with him. He was in the castle when | was there. His mother was my mother in a way. If anyone knew who | was, it was Thorne Blythwitch. But there was something else, laced between the nerves. A sort of disappointment that | couldn't pin to any one moment. It wasn't disappointment that he broke our bond.

It wasn't disappointment that he hung out with Kairos and his merry band of douche-fucks. It was almost as if | was disappointed in the fact that he didn't really know me. That makes some semblance of sense, Mona added. He barely gave you a chance to look at him before he was breaking the bond. I'd imagine that would be a blow to your ego. But not yours? | mused. Mona scoffed. | am an ancient High Magikal being. Nothing will blow my ego down. Noted, | snorted back. But maybe you're right. Maybe it's ---- disappointment in that he doesn't see me as worthy of his time.

Or strong enough for it That would be a good reason as to why we can't shift, Mona said. Why give someone our strongest form when they think we are weak? | shook my head with a sigh. God, this wolf shit is exhausting, | breathed towards Mona. Does it ever get easier? Did you miss the part where | said "ancient High Magikal being"? Mona said back with another wolfish chuckle. It never gets easier. Only more complicated. | didn't dignify that with a response as | continued my way across campus. | was almost to the cafeteria when Loren came barreling across the campus with her arms out.

She was calling my name like a psycho, causing everyone to look at her as she went. "ZORA!" | couldn't help but laugh. She lunged herself at me and | caught her ina flourish. We nearly toppled to the grass but managed to stay on our feet for the most part. | push Loren off me, gingerly, then hold the buzzing woman in my arms. "| have news!" she squeals. "Okay, okay," | half laugh. "Seems like half the campus noticed." ---- Loren's still jumping up and down as she drops her voice to a whisper only her and | can hear. "I felt something," | blink at her. "Okay?" | draw the word out.