The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0323

And my heart sinks, thinking of the reality of that. Thinking that my sweet Jacks - he's really got no one in his life to hold him and coddle him and be his safety net. Well, almost no one.

"He's got us," I whisper, looking into my mom's eyes, which I know are precisely the same shade as mine. "Which...I mean, it isn't nothing, mom. We're formidable."

"It's true," she says, a slow grin coming over her face. "Pint sided, but formidable."

We both laugh again, and she strokes my cheek. "I love you so much baby," she whispers, "I just...I care a great deal about that boy already."

"Why?" I ask, a little curious.

trouble," she murmurs, and I immediately put the pieces together - and I can't believe I didn't see it before. "Jackson's basically my catnip -

putting my head down on her chest as she tugs me close. "You're so nice. Thank you for taking care of him. And I

complicated, with Luca too. Just...try

think I've done a bad job so far?" I ask, kind of terrified to hear

future. Because I don't think it gets

promise to be on Jackson's side, even

my forehead and then reaches for my bedside table again, where she slides the drawer open and pulls something out. "Speaking of the future," she murmurs, putting a little green bottle into my hand. "This should set you up well

go wide when I realize what it is. "Oh," I say, a

and wild carrot - I had blushed for days at the idea that mom still needed it. But when mom had finally confronted me on why I was being so weird around her,

shameful about sex, Ariel, even if...well, if your mate situation makes

with a big pregnant belly to give me