The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0544

No, they're tangible things, wrapping hard around Alvez's neck, his limbs, his body, extensions of Jesse's will.

"Who are you," Jesse growls, his voice echoing in the room, bizarrely doubled so that it sounds like there are two of him - one his normal voice, one much deeper - a dark purr. "What the fuck do you want?" Jesse tightens his fingers around Alvez's throat once more and Rafe and I go rigid with shock when we see Jesse's hand slip, somehow, inward-

Not because he's ripped Alvez's flesh open but because - because...

My mouth drops open and I stop breathing - I have no explanation.

But Jesse's snarl deepens as he begins to pull, drawing something forward towards him.

A great shadow begins to emerge from Alvez's form, held tight in Jesse's hand. At first it's Alvez's double, but as Jesse steps back and pulls it further forward, it becomes clear that the man who emerges is... Is not Alvez at all.

Is someone much, much worse.

head as the shadow is pulled free and he collapses to the floor in a heap

Instead, they're on the incredibly tall shadow of a man whose throat is still held

demigod," the shadow man snarls. "Looks like my girl

still echoing in that uncanny, two-throated way. I gasp in a breath, what feels like

is still

other side, just staring in shock. In

him wince

child?" the shadow replies, taking a step towards Jesse, forcing Jesse to take a step back, even as his magic writhes, still trapping

voice booms out, echoing through all of us, and a shiver goes through me as I realize that I know exactly who it is - know

breathes, his eyes

a weapon against," the God of Darkness says, his lips pulling back in a snarl as he glances down at Jesse's

to me

she left the