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

is, apparently, my own family tree. Enlighten me." "Okay," my mate says,

many times as I demand, supplicant," I growl, trying to do my best 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 magnet they've got turned towards each other at

this and considering that for the past few hundred years or so - if not thousands

the Goddess pulls away, the stories say, he gets incredibly jealous. And he takes out that jealousy by...having a lot of affairs. Trying to make

delighted at the

are just... normal kids - humans, wolves. Some of them are demigods, like you,"

frowning. "Like...I can see how you'd make a demigod, but who are these

"It all gets very...out of our realm of understanding. We exist in a completely different

to make peace with my lack of knowledge and failing a

over

in his thoughts. "Especially the older ones. His two eldest children and the ones that I think the Goddess your grandmother is most bitter about – are twins. They're frequently referred to religiously as the God

I breathe, fascinated and