Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 20 "If the princess chooses him," | threw back. | turned to glare at Kairos. "I doubt she'd want someone this pathetic." Peytr and the other wolf "ooh" 'd then stopped when Kairos turned to glare at them. Slowly, Kairos stood up from his seat. He spat his gum off to the side. It narrowly missed another young wolf. He stood above me and glared down at me with those deep, gold eyes. | tried to not let me fear work it's way up my throat. | stood strong and glared back. "| want this to end," | said sternly.

"If | need to kick your ass to do so, | will." "Kick my ass?" Kairos snorted a laugh. "Good luck, pup." | cocked my head to the side. "So you don't accept my challenge?" "It will be anything but a 'challenge'," Maximus mocked from behind Kairos. "You're wolfless. Kairos is a High Alpha. You're an idiot to fight him." "Well I'm doing it," | snapped. I looked back at Kairos. "I challenge you to a sparring match. Best two out of three. First round is in two weeks. If | win, you call off this stupid hunting game and you do one thing for me." ---- "And when | win?" Kairos said, cocky as ever.

"You finally stop being a bitch, and take the knee to the rightful king." A growl worked it's way up my throat. There was no way that was happening. | grit my teeth together and forced out the word. "Fine." Kairos smirked and took his seat back between Thorne and Maximus. "See you there, pup." | turned and stomped back down to where Loren was sitting. Her eyes were wide in fear. | took the seat next to her just as the Professor was walking in the door. "What did you just agree to?" she whispered. "Probably my death," | whispered back, honestly.

"But at least I'll go out with a bang." That night, after classes, | snuck off to the gym. Valentin had sent me a note with the code to the lock outside. It was in case | wanted to practice while he was busy. | stayed in the gym for three hours. | tried, and failed, the run again. But this time, | was closer to the fifteen laps than | was before. Then, exhausted yet burning with anger, | spent the next hour throwing punch after punch at a boxing dummy. The last thirty minutes, | worked on 'strengthening my core to be able to absorb the punches better.

| ---- had to be quick and sturdy on my feet. | knew if Kairos punched me in my current shape, I'd fly across the room. In the end, | locked up the gym around eleven thirty. | pulled my hoodie over my head and quickly walked back to my dorm. My eyes kept scanning the area for the blonde wolf with the vendetta against me. Several times, a stray howl sent me into a half sprint. | finally got back to the dorm just as someone else was. They also had a hoodie up and pulled it down when they got to the door. The cropped black hair was all | needed to see to know it was Maximus.

He leaned against the outside of the dorm, foot propped in the door and waiting for me. | rolled my eyes when | finally reached him. "I have my own key, you know." "| know," he replied. "Just wanted to make sure you didn't pass out on my steps again." | blinked twice. "You were there for that?" "| was the one who caught you and stopped your head from bouncing off the concrete," he snorted. "You're welcome, by the way." My breath caught in my throat. | thought Valentin had caught me. | looked back up at Maximus. ---- This certainly made things interesting.