The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0750

Jackson's silence is long. Too long.

I whip my face back to him, my mouth a grim line.

His expression is...carefully blank.

"Oh no," I whisper, slumping down, my hand whipping up to cover the mark. "You hate it —"

"Ari," he sighs, scowling and swatting at my forearm, attempting to knock my hand aside. "Don't do that - I don't hate it -"

"You do!" I protest, a little more devastated than I thought I'd be, even if I knew this was coming. I mean, he can't like it, can he?

"I don't hate it!" Jacks insists, laughing at me a little as I stubbornly keep the mark covered and frown at him, leaning away. "Seriously, Ari, it's fine."

"It's fine?"

He laughs again, giving up the attempt to pull my hand away and leaning back against the pillows. "Do you want me to lie and say I think it's my new favorite feature?"

I narrow my eyes. "Well then tell me what you really think."

and Jackson

stand by my words.

and kicking

me closer to him. "Besides, when I

shocked. "How the

he growls, gathering me further into his lap, even as I go limp in protest to make

me," he murmurs, pressing a kiss to my hair. "That if I don't have anything nice to say...I shouldn't say

that he really doesn't like it. I mean, not that I expect or want him to like it - I

- I mean

—

hates

who has to look at it every day for

moan, covering it again with my

murmurs, cuddling me closer and dropping kisses to my hair. "It's simply...not to my taste." "That phrase has

to feed me duck liver," he murmurs, "or mark my mate with an uneven bite very high on her neck because they're arrogant and need everyone to see

I take in the full meaning of his words - that it truly

worried about what I think," he murmurs. "Feel

be hating, every second, the idea of another man's mark on my body. Honestly, when the Goddess

"It

go a bit still. "Faded?" I ask, looking