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.

came here hoping for - for some way of having Daphne in his life while he maintains his

be his mistress, wouldn't she? Even if he loved Daphne dearly, while he still had his mate fully in his life, a part of the family? There's no way in which, to the rest of the world, Daphne

says, 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

to get up, slipping his hands down from his face and taking a few long, deep breaths, trying to get his

this?" he asks, shaking his head, feeling utterly pathetic and at the end of a very dark

cold,

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

to his heart, shaking

girl I'm in love with after a long time apart, and tell her that I love her,

at him for a moment, her mouth trembling, her chin held high. But then she breaks, and exhales all her

as can. And if you have a mate? There is...no room

whispers, steeling himself to the promise.

it...can I tell you

a deep breath and raises her head and then nods

And Jesse begins.