Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 105 "Like something!" she whisper yells. "Something mate something!" "Oh. Oh!" | exclaim. I get why she's so excited now. "Wait, what? With whom? | thought you said no one current enrolled is doing anything for you." "They're not," Loren said. "But there's a bunch of students transferring from another Alpha Academy today. | ran into one in the cafeteria while | was waiting for you and | had to come tell you!" "Okay, okay," | tried to place my hands on her shoulders to calm her down. "What's he like? Do you know his name?" Loren stopped moving immediately.

She frowned then cast her eyes towards the ground. "Their name," she started, quietly. "Is Ani." "Ani," | repeated, trying to get my singular brain cell to work. " Ani. Okay, I'm following. What's their story?" "Well," Loren rubbed at the back of her neck. "They - um - she said she's a transfer with a bunch of other students. Something about their dorms being at capacity due to a fire. And well, we have space, always. So they sent the students here for the rest ---- of the semester until the dorms are repaired." | paused. New students?

| hoped they wouldn't hear anything about my stellar reputation on campus. The last thing | needed was more assholes digging around me. "Okay," | said for the millionth time. "And why do you think she's your mate?" "Um, she," Loren made sure to emphasize the word. "Touched my shoulder as she passed. And | felt that sort of electricity. Not like static shock but, like, more. And | think she felt it too. She was like breathless after she touched me." "Wow," | breathed. | broke into a grin. "This is amazing Loren! See, | told you there was someone for you.

She was just at a different school." Loren fidgeted and cast her glance down again. "You don't care that she's a... she?" "Not at all," | said before putting my own hand on Loren's shoulder. She tipped her head up to look at me. "Just care that your happy is all." Loren broke into a wide smile. "Thanks, Zora. You really are a good friend." | tried to not let my lies show on my face. | quickly changed the subject as | saw a mass of people walking towards the ---- Admissions Hall. | jerked my chin. "Those the new students?" Loren turned over her shoulder and looked.

"Probably," she grabbed my hand and yanked me towards the building. "Come on, let's go look!" | laughed as Loren tugged me along. Once we got closer, | spotted a crowd gathering around a lavish black car near the Admissions building. It was the same kind of car I'd been brought to school in. My eyebrows knitted as | stared at it. Was my mother on campus for the new students? The door to the car opened and | immediately felt my stomach drop. It hit the ground in front of me and shattered into a million pieces. | couldn't stop staring as a woman got out of the car.

A cheetah print heel hit the ground and | cringed at the memories of the shoes clopping around the castle for the months I'd been there before going to the Academy. | followed the long, olive legs up to the equally dark olive stomach then up to the short black bob that curled under the woman's angular jaw-line. Gold eyes pierced me from across the crowd. It parted as she walked further out of the car. Then it was just us. "Fuck," | breathed. ---- The woman's lips curled up into a snakelike smile. As if she was ready to strike.

She stepped close enough to me that | could feel her rotten, sour breath hit my nostrils as she spoke. "Hello, sister," Besides me, Loren was buzzing again. "Oh my god," she said. " Welcome to campus Princess Amara!"