The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0908

"Daphne, I am not asking you to be my mistress!" Jesse bites out, his teeth clenching.

"Did you come here with romantic intent?" she asks, prim and formal. "Desiring to continue, in some way, our relationship?"

"Yes," he says, working hard to reel his temper back in, ashamed at himself for losing it even for a moment. "I came to tell you that I love -"

"And do you still have a mate? With whom you have a relationship?"

He pauses, seeing the trap but knowing that she's got the truth on her side. "Yes," he says, short and cold.

"And you have no intention of rejecting that mate? Or she of you?"

Jesse takes a deep, long breath. "No, I have no intention of rejecting her."

"Then what else am I to conclude, Jesse,” she says, low and angry, leaning forward towards him. "But that you're asking me to be your mistress. So that you keep your mate as the priority in your life, but have me too? A bit on the side?"

He stares at her for a long moment in shock and then groans, trying to lay back on the bed but miscalculating the distance and banging his head against the wall, covering his face with his hands. Because she's right.

She's right.

right. What he came here hoping for - for some

in his life, a part of the family? There's no way in which, to the rest of the world,

cold and working hard to keep the tremble out of her voice. "I think you should go. And never speak to me again. I can't...I can't believe you came here tonight, after everything, and...asked me for

no move to get up, slipping his hands down from his face and taking a few long, deep breaths, trying to get

please give me like, one inch of space on this?" he asks, shaking his head, feeling utterly pathetic and at

cold, narrowing her

bed, holding his hands out towards her, pleading. I understand. And if were any other jackass Alpha in any other situation, I would let you call me a jackass, and a pig, anda horrible, terrible misogynist. But could you please, please open your heart and remember that I am not a

a hand to his heart, shaking his

and I'm in a really hard, terrible situation — and all I'm trying to do is see the girl I'm in love with after a long time apart, and tell her that I love her, and just...try to find

breaks, and exhales

of me, Jess," she whispers "Because...I'll give it. I just...need to protect myself in all of this, protect my heart, as much as can. And if you have a mate? There is...no room for me in your life. It's not fair to her and it's not

whispers, steeling himself to the

I tell you what happened? How I

takes a deep breath and raises her head

And Jesse begins.