The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0607

"And one of the children of the God of Darkness," I murmur, frowning, likewise staring into space. "Ole Darkie."

Jackson laughs at the Goddess's nickname for her ex. "And he's got enough of those to choose from," he murmurs. "So we'll maybe never know."

"Wait, what?" I say, sitting up a bit to peer down at him. "How many children does he have?"

"Like, a lot, Ariel," Jackson replies, frowning up at me. "Famously."

"What!?"

Jackson laughs lightly, pulling me down against him. "You need to study your religious texts, Clark," he murmurs, brushing his lips again over my hair. "This is your nation's religion too."

"I don't study religion," I say, shaking my hair haughtily back, making my voice hoity-toity and smug. "I am religion - I am a demigoddess, after all."

if I am kidding and making bold excuses for my ignorance, it's...kind of

is, apparently, my own

to embody bossy goddess energy. But Jackson's soft laughter just lets me know how deeply I've failed.

of the mythology they're mates, in others they're just like...magnets, both drawn to each other or opposed inevitably according to whichever pole of the

few hundred years or so - if not thousands -

when the Goddess pulls away, the stories say, he gets incredibly jealous. And he takes

I whisper, a little delighted at the cosmic drama

them are just... normal kids - humans, wolves. Some of them are demigods, like you," I wiggle my shoulders back, preening, pleased to

can see how you'd make a demigod,

don't really know," Jackson says with a shrug. "It all gets very...out of our realm of understanding. We exist in a completely

with my

over

the near-Gods are more famous and powerful than others," Jackson says, a bit absent, getting lost in his thoughts. "Especially the older ones. His two eldest children and the

I breathe, fascinated and