The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0867 "Mids," Jesse sighs, putting his hands on his hips and shaking his head at Midnight, exhausted and frustrated. He peeks over the top of the separating screen that Juniper gave them, well aware that the tent full of ambassadors and Atalaxian royals is listening to their heated conversation and casually pretending that they're not.

"I don't want to go," Midnight growls, curled in a ball at his feet, her face tucked tight against her knees and her hands sunk deep in her hair. "You can't make me!"

"I can't make you," Jesse agrees through his teeth, crouching down next to her. "But if we stay here, we're all going to get killed."

"We won't get killed," she hisses, whipping her face up to glare at him. "I will negotiate with Darkness when he breaks out of that stupid egg! I will assure him that we are still his humble servants! He'll just kill all of them!" She jerks her head towards everyone else in the tent.

One of the eavesdropping ambassadors groans in fear. Another hisses at him to shut up.

"Oh, Midnight," Jesse sighs, falling back on his ass and reaching out to stroke Midnight's back. This conversation has been going on for...far too long. And every moment that passes gets a lot closer to that reality - to Darkness getting free, and coming here, and destroying them all.

Except, unlike Midnight, Jesse has no intention of declaring his fealty to evil or watching his countrymen die.

"What are you really scared of, Mids?" he asks, continuing to softly stroke her back. "What's stopping you from letting me take you home and give you a wonderful life?"

She just shakes her head and tucks her face back against her knees, as she's been doing this entire time.

"I mean, everyone's going to be really nice to you," Jesse says softly. "I'm sure they can't wait to meet you. You're going to have a fantastic life in Moon Valley."

"They'll make me be a whore," she moans.

Jesse can't help laughing, just a little. "M ight, I promise, no one will make you be a whore."

lets

Midnight's voice is softer than before, and laced with fear. "She's going to take my magic

asks, his

blonde rat!" Midnight moans,

confused, and then bursts into a smile.

when she realizes that Jesse

"It's not funny!"

Ariel a blonde rat is very funny," Jesse says, scooting closer to Midnight and tugging her close. "But why would you think she would take your

she took that Prince's magic away," Midnight murmurs, leaning against him. "And now he's all weak

making him horrible, Mids. He punched Ariel and...probably did all sorts of other awful

and sad and shining. "If you

you're

truth. "I think that whatever that darkness does to

for years. I

mouth begins to tremble and Jesse's whole

soft. "It breaks my heart to see your little wolf sunk in the Darkness like that. I

wolf howls in his soul, standing at the edge and peering over at Midnight's long-suffering wolf, sunk deep in the dark oil, panting hard, her eyes lit with

don't know who I am without the Darkness," she says quietly. "I...I don't remember agreeing

still be you," he

slipping down her cheeks. "What if darkness is too

right. Gabriel - his