Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 134 That afternoon, | slowly spilled into the campus auditorium with the rest of the school. I'd taken Valentin's robe back to my dorm and changed into a sweatsuit. I'd pulled the hood high over my head as | walked in so no one would notice me. I'd already heard a plethora of students cursing my existence on the walk there. Just then, a hand darted out and yanked me out of the crowd and into the vestibule. | yelped and threw my hands up immediately but | was only meet with the stern, hard face of Maximus. Something about his face immediately soothed me.

| threw my arms around his neck and buried myself in his arms. His hands came around my back and ran down mine spine. He pulled back slightly to press his forehead to mine. "ll kill him," he said into my cheek. "I'll kill every one of them." "Don't," | yanked away from him so | could look at him in the eyes. "You didn't seen Lunerly. He was pissed. He'll take care of it. | don't need you expelled." Maximus nodded but then hardened his face as he saw something behind us. | turned and saw that Thorne had somehow found us. He wore a scowl on his face as he stormed into our hiding spot.

---- "The fuck are you two doing?" he hissed. "Checking in on my protectorate," Maximus threw back. " Something you clearly do not possess the ability to do." Thorne's eyes widened, nostrils flaring as he puffed up his chest. He looked like he was about to attack Maximus so | did the only thing | knew would keep him from it. | stepped in between the two men and pressed a hand to each of their sternums. Maximus immediately relaxed. Thorne flinched then settled a second later. "Stop it," | said, evenly. "The fighting is why we're here in the first place.

Just calm down and think rationally." "Rationally isn't a word Maximus knows," Thorne snapped. "Go shove your dick back in a book, you knob," Maximus, countered. "Maybe you'd learn to be a better Knight." "Hard to be a good Knight when you've got a psychotic, feral puppy as a Protecterate-" "Enough!" | cut through Thorne's insult. "Jesus Christ, would you both just calm down for two seconds!?" "I'm calm," Maximus stated. From the look on his face, | believed it. Thorne looked like he was in between throttling both of us and fleeing entirely. ---- He threw a hand my direction.

"Whatever," he scoffed. He started back out of the vestibule. "Just don't get in anymore trouble, alright?" "I'll try," | called after him. Maximus chuckled lightly besides me. | pulled my hood back on top of where it slipped off my head and gave him a nod. "Come on, let's get this over with." The two of us walk back into the crowd of people and funnel our way into the auditorium. It was nearly full at that point, so we managed to shuffle into a seat in the back. In the front, | spotted the back of Thorne's head sitting next to Amara. She still had the ridiculous sling around her neck.

| fought the urge to roll my eyes. Further to the front was Loren. She was standing on her feet, gnawing at her bottom lip as she looked for someone. A pang of guilt hit me as | realized it was me. Up on the stage, a woman in a human suit and low heels walked out. She was stout and had greying hair that was wrapped up in a bun. | recognized her as someone who I'd seen in the Admissions building before. She tapped her throat twice then cleared it. The sound echoed through the auditorium as if she was using a microphone. "Good afternoon," she said.

"Headmaster Lunerly has gathered you all here today to address recent on-goings at Lunaton Alpha Academy. Please give him your utmost respect." ---- She padded down the stage stairs and took a seat in the front row with a bunch of other staff. Valentin took the stage and tapped his throat just as the woman did. "Students," he voice bounced off the silent walls of the room. "! have brought you all here to discuss what seems to be a problem with decorum."