The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0766

Jesse just stares at the girl standing before him, wondering if this is some sort of game, some ruse she's playing to trick him into feeling sorry for her. Because he's got a tender heart - he knows that, as much as he tries to hide it from everyone else. Could this girl have figured that out and is now using those big brown eyes, that sad question, to trick him? But even as he thinks it his wolf nips him, hard.

Can't you see it? His wolf hisses, livid with Jesse. This girl is neglected and all alone. The God of Darkness has ruined her wolf - and he's been using her to spy on you. She has nothing, and you cannot even be kind to her?

Jesse's wolf nips him again, hard, ashamed.

And Jesse flinches and blinks again, staring with pity down into Midnight's sweet, broken little face. Because even if it sounds absurd, when Jesse looks into Midnight's dark eyes he knows...that it's absolutely true. That she is some kind of...bizarre orphan of Darkness, raised here alone, with the sole purpose of spying on him and his family.

Or perhaps as...punishment? For him, for his family, for the Goddess? God, but Jesse doesn't know - he doesn't understand anything at all.

reaches for this strange lost girl. For his fated

I like you, Midnight," Jesse says, quiet and gentle, taking a step closer but not taking

the truly happy one, not the fake one, and she laughs as she spins and begins to dash away across the packed dirt of the wasteland before them. "Come on!" she

with absolutely nothing else to do and no idea where his life will take him

- who she was so sure was her mate - isn't.

her departure my dad leaves me with my friend to hold her while she cries. But it's too short a time before he comes and presses a soft hand to my shoulder. I look up at my dad, at the grief and worry on his face and nod once, understanding. There's just...too

lost to her grief. Ben - sweet

But that's all I have time for as Jackson

course, I have a thousand roles to play today. Not just friend, but worried sister, and nation's princess. And the magical source that has the power to make a change