The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0742

Mom hears the worry in my voice and snuggles down next to me. "The boys say Jackson's fine, Ari. Worried but fine. I wish you wouldn't worry so much. But, I do understand."

"They didn't say he's fine," I say on a sigh. "They said he's been prowling around as his wolf, all full of woe, snapping at anyone who gets too close. And that he doesn't sleep and just goes and wolfishly gazes at the moon.'

"Because it reminds him of youuu," mom coos, laughing a little and snuggling closer to me. "And me. Because we're elegant moon goddesses."

"Yes, I understood," I say, rolling my eyes but unable to keep the little smile on my face.

But still, my poor wounded wolf lifts her tired head and gives me another nudge in my soul, even as Cora

and Daphne continue to sing, messing up the words and tripping over their own feet, laughing hysterically as they do.

"Will you keep a special eye on Junie at home, mom?" I whisper.

Mom turns to me, curious and concerned. "Of course, if you think I need to. But why?"

Redman Blythe and him being dead. She lost someone too, though I don't know what he meant to her.

"It's good of you to

birthday," I whisper, closing my eyes against the guilt. "I'll make it

baby," mom whispers back.

as, for the third night in a row, he lopes after Jackson in wolf form in the fields and forests that surround the Castle. And Jesse gets it - he really does. His boy Jackson is going through a very difficult time, it's

does he have such athletic best

of mate who wants to drown his sorrows in a bottle of whiskey while sitting before the fire?

is what

Jackson

though Jackson hasn't once turned around, or stopped to speak with him, or done more than acknowledge his presence. Jesse knows that Jackson feels him here. Feels Jesse's love, and his support, and his unshakeable willingness to just be there

night, Jackson shifts on the cliffside outside the Castle. Jesse comes to rather a hard stop to avoid slamming

avoid

a hand through his rumpled hair and panting a little. "Sorry man. I

didn't," Jacks murmurs, only glancing