Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 27 Maximus walked up the stairs of his house and stopped in front of Kairos's door. He contemplating knocking but the music inside was so loud, there was no way Kairos could hear him. He barged into the room. Kairos was bench pressing on his bench in the back corner. Three, hundred pound weights were on each side of the bar. He was slowly pushing them back up the rack, his arms twitching with exertion. "Fucking hell," Maximus swore before rushing over to help Kairos rerack. Kairos smiled up at him. Sweat rolled down his back as he sat up on the bench.

He palmed at his stereo, turning it down. "Maxy!" he said as if he didn't just get crushed by six-hundred pounds. "Thanks for the lift." "You fucking idiot," Maximus snapped back. "You're over the safety limit for benching by two-fifty. Were you trying to kill yourself?" Kairos wiped his face with a towel. He chuckled. "Only a little," he joked. "Gods, almighty," Maximus breathed as he ran his hand over his ---- face. Kairos stood up and continued to towel off his face and shoulders. His brown hair was slick with sweat.

He shoved it back off his face and walked over to his bed to grab his water. "So what's up?" Kairos asked before squirting water into his mouth. He swallowed thickly. "You know this is my training hour. You never interrupt me." Maximus groaned and sat down on the bench. He threw his head in his hands. "It's about Mateball," he grumbled. "| need to ask someone. | think she may be my fated mate." "Oh-ho-ho!" Kairos slapped Max on the back. Maximus flinched. " So tell me, what's her name? Is it the leggy blonde from World History.

She was checking you out the other day." "She - er," Maximus fumbled. "It's complicated." Kairos laughed he squatted down in front of Maximus. He met Maximus's eye. There was a haunting prescense in his dark gold eyes. "Well," he said softly, yet threateningly. "As long as it's not that fucking bitch, Zora. We won't have a problem, will we?" Maximus froze. He had to play this right. He shoved Kairos in the shoulder with a groan. "Don't even fucking imply that," he spat. "Fucking disgrace of a wolf." ---- Kairos laughed before standing back up.

He took another glug of water then held his palms out. "Fine, you wanna be secretive? Be secretive," he said. "But may | remind you that you are Maximus fucking Wolfham? Son of the High Alpha of Wolfham?" Kairos scoffed. "Who in their right mind would reject your offer to Mateball?" Zora would, Maximus thought begrudgingly. He shoved that thought in the back of his head as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeah, | guess," "We talking about Mateball?" Kairos and Maximus snapped their heads up to look at the door to Kairos's room. Lounging against the door frame was Thorne.

His bleach blonde hair had been freshly washed and toned. It stood out against his deep olive skin. He wore thick black rimmed glasses over his honey-gold eyes. "Yeah," Kairos said. "You going? You taking History of Wolves or The Last Great Queen this year?" "Har, har," Thorne rolled his eyes. "I'm taking no one. Unlike you two, I'm trying to not piss off the Queen." Kairos pouted. "Baby Throne's not trying to piss off mommy?" He reached over to try and tossle Thorne's hair but Thorne jerked out of his reach. ---- "She's not my mother," he snapped back. "She's my adopted mother.

Entirely different." "Still your mommy," Maximus mused, causing Kairos to chuckle again. Thorne looked downright murderous. "Sorry | take my job fucking seriously," he bit out. "Unlike you two idiots fucking around with girls you know you won't end up with." Kairos gestured to Maximus. "Maxy said he thinks he found his fated mated." Thorne's scowl immediately fell. "You do?" Max nodded. Thorne sighed and adjusted his glasses. "Still doesn't change the fact that we're all in line for Queen consort." "Oh, come on," Kairos snorted.

"We all know any princess is gonna pick Lunerly over the three of us. He's three times our age and twice as strong. She'd be an idiot not to." "Only you would pick a princess you've never met over your fated mated, Blythwitch," Maximus chimed in "Victoria did a lot for me," Thorne replied softly. "Whether I've seen her or not, | owe it to Victoria to at least try and make it work. Plus, does the power not tempt you?" Kairos shrugged and crossed his arms over his chest. Maximus ---- raised an eyebrow at him. "Kairos the Great isn't tempted by power?" he said.

"I'm shocked." "Power isn't everything," Kairos said. "Sometimes, | think it would be nice to just be happy." The three boys sat in silence as they mused over it. In that moment, Maximus decided to say fuck it. Who cared if Zora was awolfless, Kairos was was right. It would be nice to just be happy for once.