Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 59 Maximus Maximus had not felt a rage like that since before he'd started school at Alpha Academy. He knew the girls were ganging up on Zora. Whenever Kairos had started shit with her, he couldn't bring himself to stop it but Mallory wasn't Kairos. Neither was Bella. "Maxie?" Mallory cooed. "What are you doing, darling?" "I'm not fucking Zora," Maximus snapped. "But you were in her room last night," Kate spat. "Do you think we're dumb?" Maximus felt Zora shift slightly behind him to look at the girls. He turned his attention back to them.

Bella and Kate both still had scowls on their faces. Mallory was bating her eyelashes at him like she was trying to win him over. He felt the anger swelling in his chest. "Only you, Kate," He retorted. He jerked his gaze towards Bella. "| think you know exactly what you're doing." Bella's lips pursed into an even deeper scowl. Kate looked livid. "Maxie!" Mallory squeaked. ---- Maximus whipped his head back to glare at Mallory. He was feeling spiteful and bitter. His sister would've killed him if she heard him speak to Mallory in the way he was about to.

But Meg wasn't there and he had all the fire fueled inside of him "And you," he spat. "Just because you beg me to fuck you one time doesn't mean I'm your fucking boyfriend." A bunch of "ooh"s and snickers erupted from the rest of the cafeteria that was watching the spectacle. Mallory's face twisted to look like she'd been slapped across the face, not Zora. She let out a cry of frustration before storming out of the cafeteria, heels clicking on the tile floor. Maximus turned back to Kate. She still had a pissy expression on her face. Maximus took a step towards her.

"I've warned you once that if you touch her," he pointed towards Zora. "I'll do whatever you did to her in tenfold to you. So, | suggest you fuck off before | make good on my word." Kate glared at Zora from around Maximus. She balled her hands into fists and stormed off after Mallory. Then, it was just Bella. Maximus took a step towards her. Bella seemed unphased but he knew deep down, she was shaking in her boots. "You think you're clever, don't you?" He dropped his voice low and menacing. "Spreading rumors to get everyone to gang up on ---- her.

What was your goal?" The two stared at each other, nostrils flared and chests heaving. Maximus heard Loren step up next to him. He smirked. He admired the Mini Moonbeam's loyalty to her friend. Bella glared at Loren then back at Maximus before she huffed. "| wanted her to stay away from my mate," Bella grit out from her teeth. She threw a hand at Zora. "Just because her fated mate rejected her doesn't mean she gets to whore it out to my mate!" "You know just as well as | do that is not the case," Maximus snapped. The two locked eyes.

Maximus knew Meg had told Bella about his weird feelings for Zora. He'd wrestled Meg to the ground in anger after she'd told him but now he was using it as a way to get Bella to back off. She looked at Maximus with one more scathing glare before 'turning towards Zora. "Stay away from Valentin," she hissed at the redhead. With that she turned on her heel and followed her friends out of the cafeteria. There was a thick silence in the air as everyone watched the door slam after her. Then, slowly, all the students in the cafeteria ---- started to talk again.

The noise filled the air and squashed the silence. Maximus refused to look at where his friends were sitting. He knew Kairos was going to be up his ass about why he defended Zora. Maximus didn't have a good enough excuse yet. Slowly, he turned around to face Zora. Her eyes had become more golden since Mateball. They felt like pools of honey he was constantly getting stuck in. Her red hair was plaited off her face. A few pieces hung down her cheeks like a halo. Maximus wanted to curl one around his finger again.