Chapter 89 A Lover
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Fun? I blinked. What was that supposed to mean? And why was she looking in this direction? I shifted a little uncomfortably. She said she was here to find a mate when I was actually a woman. What if she suspected something about me? I would be in great trouble.
Grace turned to Alpha Jude and smiled, “I’ve received my father’s permission to spend time with the Alphas here and find myself a mate, since there are no upcoming trials. I hope you don’t mind.”
Alpha Jude stood up from his chair in the library with all the grace of a predator bored of its prey. He didn’t look back once. His cont swayed behind him, cigarette still burning between his lips, as his boots echoed across the marble floor. He was already halfway to the door when he spoke in his gruff, amused tone.
you’ll
“As long as nothing about it breaks the Academy rules, I don’t care what you do,” he paused near the exit. “But if any of you idiots even think about disrespecting her- his head tilted slightly, just enough to let the weight of his words sink in, find yourself at a major disadvantage in the next trial. And for the record, I don’t give second warnings,” with that he resumed. his walk.
The library, which had fallen eerily quiet in his presence, erupted again. Only this time, all attention had turned to Grace Gideon.
She stood surrounded by a group of Alphas, their eyes gleaming with interest, hunger, and dangerous hope. Some asked her about her preferences. Others leaned in, smirking, flexing their rank and charm.
But Grace..she wasn’t looking at them.
Her eyes trailed after Alpha Jude’s disappearing form with an expression I couldn’t quite read.
“Miss Grace,” one Alpha eagerly asked, “what kind of guy are you into?”
She didn’t answer immediately. Instead, she slowly shifted her attention, her gaze scanning the room again.
She wasn’t looking at the Alphas crowding her.
She was looking at us.
At the back bench.
The tive who hadn’t moved a muscle since she entered: Asher, Ronan, Ryker, Finn… and I.
Something in her eyes changed. Her smile sharpened with interest as she replied to them, “I am into handsome guys.”
My muscle grew tiglat as she walked toward us, parting the sea of Alphas without a word. “As well as something that is hard to get”
The group fell into a shocked hush as her heels clicked with purpose.
Unul she stopped in front of Asher
The air in the library turned to ice as their eyes met and they shared silent eye contact for a long time. I could not help but notice Ashier’s unchanging expression. What was going on!
“Asher Grace suddenly murmured softly, her voice warm, familiar. “Long time no see”
Asher rose slowly to his feet, siniling in surprise, genuine and soft in a way I rarely saw. “Crace,” he said, his voice just as warm “Didn’t expect to see you here”
“True” she grinned and hugged ham in a way that had the other Alphas grash their teeth
Asher hugged her a second later. “You did not grow taller than you were before.”
bluked. Did Asher and Grace know each other?
The sound of sharp, barely contained growls and shifting chairs rippled bough the library. Alphas weren’t subtle when they
barely–contained
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Chapter 89 A Lover
were jealous. Grace was probably unaware of that fact. She laughed, light and pretty, still holding Asher’s hand as if they’d
done it a thousand times before.
you
here”
“Luna never told me you applied to Lupine,” she said, brushing her hair over her shoulder. “It was a shock to see “She didn’t know until I was already accepted,” he replied with a chuckle. “What about you? Sneaking into all–male academies again?
Again! Has she done that in the past?
“I call it walking through the front doors,” she winked. “With style.”
It was obvious they had history. Close history. I remembered someone saying Asher’s mother came from
a strong bloodline
of Alphas, maybe that’s where the connection came from. The aura coming from Grace was no less strong. She was a pure blood Alpha.
They looked so natural together. So easy,
Then. Grace’s gaze slid from Asher, straight to Ronan
Her eyes widened slightly. “Damn,” she breathed. “You’re a little too breathtaking to be real.”
Ronan didn’t flinch and of course he did not get up like Asher. He met her gaze with utter indifference.
“I don’t flirt,” he said bluntly. “I already have someone in my heart.”
His voice cut through the room like a blade as I nearly choked in my own saliva at his bluntness. The silence was deafening. Even the rustle of paper stopped.
I held my breath as my heart disappeared somewhere in my stomach.
He said it.
Openly.
In front of everyone.
Even though no one knew who he was talking about, I still panicked. Heat rushed to my cheeks, and I tried my best to keep my expression unreadable, completely neutral, even as my fingers clenched under the desk.
“A lover!” Grace raised a brow, amused. “Is she prettier than me?”
“Yes,” Ronan said without missing a beat. “The prettiest in this entire world,”
I felt his eyes me and I lowered my gaze to the blank sheet in front of me as my heart skipped a beat.
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