The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0568

until your mate comes along to spark them - that's why I gave you the mates. But also," she laughs again as she shrugs, "for fun."

"What do you mean?" the Goddess asks, grinning at Jesse, clearly a little entertained and looking around the room as if she's going to see Jesse's mate hiding in a corner or something. "Of course you've met your mate - that's how it works! My magical gifts can't develop A little pulse of shock goes through me as the Goddess admits this - both that Jesse has a mate and that, somehow, he's met her. And the confirmation that magic develops once you've met your mate...god, but that's important news.

Down our bond, I feel Jackson go still - anxiety turning in him as he wonders why his magic developed so soon before he met me.

"I - I'm sorry, Goddess," Jesse says, pressing his hand to his heart. "But my wolf and I - we have not found our mate. How can I have accessed my magic?"

The Goddess frowns, humming deeply and reaching for Jesse again, pressing her hand to his forehead and concentrating this time. Then she sighs, putting her hands on her hips.

"Well, that's odd - you truly have no memories of meeting her," she says, clearly frustrated. "But...if you have your magic, then you have met your mate. Or," she shrugs, "she has met you. The spark is biological - if your body came close to hers - if you smelled or sensed her, even if you were, perhaps, unconscious? It would have been enough."

The Goddess shrugs like it could be anything and turns away from my cousin, even as Jesse's eyes go wide because...well, it's a very creepy thought, isn't it?

Still, there's no time to rest on it as the Goddess turns to me at last, her face breaking into her most beautiful smile. "And there she is," the Goddess says with a happy sigh, flitting to me next and likewise taking my face in her palms. "My little granddaughter," she laughs her tinkling laugh that sounds like bells and joy and moonlight, looking over her shoulder at Cora and mom as she wrinkles her nose. "Looks like me, doesn't she?"

"Yes," Cora says with a happy little smile. "Yes, she certainly does."

because...there's no way. There's no way I can

again as she leans towards me, conspiratorial,

just stares between the

much. I raise my

she says with a happy sigh, straightening up. "You know, your gift is particularly complicated,

peer very closely at my neck. I breathe in sharply as something flares at the Goddess's eyes

the room - everything - goes

her gaze on me once again. "And where, granddaughter," she says, leaning down towards

I again grip my desk, not knowing

I sputter out. "I didn't know - they

flare, suddenly filled with the fire that I recognize as part of my gift. "Do you think that this is

a bit because I know, already, that she's not going to

want me to choose between them," I whisper, still staring up at her star-filled form, her gorgeous face. "They want to wait to give me their marks

frozen in time next to me. As she crosses her arms over her chest, I

fools," the Goddess

gift directly from my hands and turning their