Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 75 "You'd do that?" | asked. "Of course," she said. "You're my best friend." | smiled at her, our eyes locking before she went over to the cabinet and pulled out a whole basket of products. She sectioned my hair and went at it with the products then took a lightning hot straightener to it. Steam emitted from my hair but when she pulled the straightener down, it was like my hair grew out of my head that way. "Whoa," | said. Loren wiggled her eyebrows. "Magiks!" | laughed, knowing that she was kidding.

The products Pietha and Maja had left were some that I'd seen before in the human stores. There was nothing magik about them. Loren continued to straighten my curls, humming as she stood behind me. | looked at my hands, my thoughts consumed by what she'd said about Maximus. "Loren?" she hummed in reply, eyes still on my hair. | fidgeted in my seat. "Have you ever had a boyfriend?" Loren's perpetual smile dropped. She shook her head, more disappointed then sad. "I had a friend once who | thought was ---- handsome," she said. "But he didn't see me that way.

| wrote him this long letter about my feelings and he just ... tossed it away The other girls in my pack made fun of me for weeks." "I'm sorry," | said, sincerely. "That's awful." Loren shrugged. "It was a harsh reality, but it made me stronger," she said. "I learned to not put my happiness into the hands of others. Only my own." "| like that," | said, Loren smiled softly. There was a beat of silence before she spoke. "What about you?" | frowned. "I mean no, not officially," | said. "There was this older boy at my human school, Frankie.

He and | kind of fooled around a bit but same thing as you. He didn't really have feelings for me so it fizzled out." "Fooled around like ... kissing?" Loren asked. | fidgeted again. "Among other things." "Wow," Loren breathed. "I've never done anything like that before. Just some stray kisses at parties." "it's" | paused, trying to find a word to describe sex. "Weird." Loren laughed, full bellied. She shook her head as she did. " ---- That's not what sissy said." "Okay then, what did you oh-so wonderful sister say?" "She is wonderful," Loren pointed the straightener at me in the mirror.

"And don't you forget it." | held my hands up, giving in. Loren gave me a sly smirk before going back to her hair straightening. "She and her friends were talking about it once," she said. "I overheard them.They way they described it was like this magically romantic experience. Like every cell in your body was on fire and yet at the same time, ice was running over your skin. They each said there's nothing like it." | snorted then clamped my hand over my mouth. "Sorry," | mumbled, dropping my hands back in my lap. "That is just so wildly different than what I experienced.

| wonder if | was doing something wrong." Loren gave me a look like she didn't know either then went back to my hair. She'd almost finished when she finally spoke again. "You know," she said, softly. "I bet Max would make it like that for you." | froze. My mouth opened and closed like a fish. | was desperately trying to not imagine what that would feel like. The Moonbeam is not wrong, my wolf mused. ---- You lasted all of an hour before annoying me, | threw back. Go away. My wolf snorted snootily before trotting off into the back of my mind and curling up to sleep.

| brought my attention back to Loren. She was finishing up the final pieces of my hair, making sure my roots were as smooth as the rest of it. We made eye contact and she raised her brow. "People on campus talk," she said, plain as ever. "No one's ever slept with Maximus Wolfham and been disappointed." "Ill keep that in mind," | dead panned. Loren put down the straightener and | looked into the mirror. If possible, I'd become even more gorgeous. | looked like the super model version of myself, all shiny and pressed.

Loren smoothed a final product from my roots to my ends before huffing and setting her hands on my shoulders. "There," she sighed, "Another masterpiece complete. Are you ready to party?" | looked at myself in the mirror shiny and bronzed and almost as good, if not better, than when Maja and Pietha had done me up for Mateball. A sense of confidence waved through me. | was bad-ass. | was hot. | could do anything. "Let's fucking party," | replied.