The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0765

"Yes, master?" she says, looking up at the God adoringly.

"Keep him contained," the God says, reaching out a hand to grasp her chin, turning her face side to side like he's inspecting it and finds it wanting. "Do not, under any circumstances, take him back to the Earth." "Yes, sir!" Midnight says, her face bursting into her strange fake smile.

The God of Darkness nods once and begins to walk in the direction that he came, fading and then vanishing as he goes, leaving Jesse awe-struck and dumb with shock, and fear, and agony when he realizes that...he's not going home.

He's not going to go see Daphne today to comfort her, or help Ariel win that battle, not today, maybe not... ever.

And that all of this - all of it has been specifically constructed as some kind of trap. So that whatever Atalaxia has planned for his family tonight and in the war...

It's big. And his family has no idea that it's coming.

"Isn't he amazing?" Midnight breathes, moving quickly to Jesse's side and staring up at him, delighted. "That - that guy?" Jesse asks, gesturing over his shoulder to where the God of Darkness went. "That guy is amazing?"

"Yes," she says, nodding reverently.

Jesse hesitates. "Is he like...your dad?"

Midnight just laughs, shaking her head, her curls bouncing. "He's not my father father - I mean, I'm not

nearly good enough to be so blessed," she says, even blushing at the idea. "But he raised me - and when I'm a good girl he lets me call him papa.'

twists with disgust and confusion. "And

like it's the obvious answer. "And makes me call him Master and Great One

heaven's sake," Jesse murmurs, raising a hand to cover his face, agonized for this

she sighs, dismissive of

and frowning at her. "You

like she's

to believe

twenty-three," she says, beaming at

her. "But you've been

rolling her eyes. "Stop trying to trap me in my thoughts. Time is

you ever remember

"No."

remember

go - we're in love! Start acting like it!" Jesse is about to protest, again, that they're

at her

Jesse flinches,

important a conversation, but then Jesse shifts his focus inwards. His wolf is peering across a dark space a space where, Jesse suddenly realizes, their bond

accepts it.

to be with Daphne not

nips at Jesse, and insists - absolutely insists - that he look. So Jesse leans closer, peering in to the darkness where...where Midnight's wolf

when he sees her, horrified, because the wolf is...she's wrong. She stands still with her four legs splayed wide and unsteady in what looks like a huge puddle of oif Her teeth are bared, and she's panting but staring unseeingly forward into the void - not at Jesse, not at his wolf, just...into space. Her eyes shine darkly with a strange blue light and all over her fur drips with that oil.