The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0758

"Jess!" Rafe barks out as Jesse leaves, flipping Rafe the middle finger as he goes.

Then Rafe, growling, storms back to his own sleeping area and begins furiously pulling his dresser drawers open, not seeming to get much done but needing the distraction of having something rather violent to do.

"What...what is happening?" Jackson murmurs, tearing his eyes away from the Prince and looking down at Ariel, worried.

"Oh, puppy," she sighs, beaming up at him and squeezing his hand. "Come help me pack, I'll explain everything."

"Pack?" he says, grinning down at her, unable to help it. Then he snarls and snatches her up into his arms. "Pack!? I have nothing to pack - you're my only luggage, tiny - I'll zip you up in a bag right now -" She shouts with laughter that goes right to Jackson's heart, makes everything actually feel okay, makes war and devastation and death and the thought of losing her feel very, very far away. Jackson laughs too, falling with her onto the bed as she quickly begins to explain a very baffling story about Jesse and Daphne somehow being in love.

But even as his mouth falls open in surprise, Jackson only half listens. Because his heart and his soul are elsewhere, on other thoughts.

We have to mark her, his wolf growls, pacing back and forth in his soul as Jackson's eyes fall to her neck, to that spot he's been thinking of for months, even if it's covered now with black fabric. We should do it now.

Patience, Jacks murmurs, running a comforting hand over his wolf's raised hackles. She has to be ready. It has to be right. She can't have two bad experiences being marked - I'm not going to ruin this just because we're impatient.

No time for patient, his wolf growls, shaking out his fur, anxious. Now. We have to do it now, before it's again too late.

back to the moment, ignoring

after all, the center

up at him. "You've been lost in your thoughts, haven't you, pup?" She

you," he

She beams. "Good thoughts?"

one." He dips his head and presses a

bed and shuts his eyes, the weight

a balm to his entire soul. Mittens purrs softly, a little ball of fur happily curled up on the

sighs, her voice weary.

dour. "I fucked up.

him," she murmurs, closing her own eyes and nuzzling closer, tugging his neat Cadet shirt out of his pants and slipping her hand beneath

have been any

"Any way that Rafe found out, no matter how, he was going to

limits to me because he

at him. "I'm not an

blow past." He steels himself, because even if his wolf is still raging a bit at all the things Rafe said, he doesn't want Daphne to be mad about