Chapter 94

I stare at Jackson like he’s an idiot now. Because…honestly I really kind of did think that he’d figured it out, at a least a little bit. Or that once I told him, all the pieces would snap into place.

But the way he’s looking at me..Jackson does not know.

He bought, hook line and sinker, the lie that I’m Ari Clark, royal cousin who has some strange and elusive tie to his mate.

“Jacks,” I growl, shaking my head. “No, it’s…it’s me. Your mate is me.” And with that, I whip off my cap, revealing the hair braided in a coil on top of my head, letting my true scent free.

He continues staring at me, uncomprehending. But I see him stumble back a step, his eyes. going wide the moment my scent hits him.

“How…” he murmurs, his voice trembling. “How can you….you’re a Cadet…you’re male…”

hat

“Oh my god,” I groan, dipping my face into my hand for a second before dropping my and grabbing the hem of my shirt, tugging it up halfway as fast as I can so that he can see the shape of my body beneath, my wider hips, my trim waist. “Jacks, no, I’m a girl.”

I stand there, my shirt fisted against my breasts, staring at him, breathless.

Realization hits Jackson like a bus.

His eyes go wide and he stumbles back a step, not breathing, his face going deathly pale in the light of the moon. I stare at Jackson, watching him struggle to make sense of the newly disparate pieces of the world. His eyes move fast over me again and again before, always, returning to my face.

But he just stares back at me, slack–jawed, not saying a word.

And then, after a long, long moment of staring at each other, Jackson just….turns on his heel.

And stalks away.

Emergency calls only

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And I stare after him in…absolute shock.

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disappears quickly into the darkness and I stare, my

night for way,

open.

groan a long, slow groan, standing up straight and burying

says, a little frantic, it can’t be bad we told him the truth…the truth can

of an insane trial. And your core

how that can’t possibly be what’s happening, that he just needs a minute alone to process because he’s the solitary

But..he doesn’t.

slowly and fluently, and turn towards the little overhang of rock where I’d been sitting with the water. I sink into that spot, sitting hard

was going to happen!? That he was just going to be like, “Oh, cool! How nice! What

to his roots. He probably shifted into his wolf and is now prowling around the cliffside in the moonlight, not even

about losing my temper and blurting

my feelings, a little bit,

Emergency calls only

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mean, did he…did

Did he realize that I’m a

Jackson think I’m

and shaking my head, hating that these are my thoughts right now. I mean, I hate not knowing, I hate that he’s not here to talk this through with me, to hear my apologies and my reassurances, but I also hate that I’m dealing with mate drama while I’ve got less

moment to admit the truth

timing,” I mutter to

get to the

at the same moment that she begs for a little. attention. I turn towards her, giving her a

her fur.

okay, she assures me, her eyes wide and limpid and sad. No matter what happens… it will be

her eyes drift shut, holding on to the hope for

moment I do at the sound of footsteps

  1. us.

hitches

mean, is it Jackson?

we weren’t precisely quiet, were

our earlier decision to be stealthy and quiet, to hide up here

por into a shouting match that

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