The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0922

Ella's ears perk and her head snaps up, her eyes immediately moving towards the door of her cozy little office because...

That's a child crying somewhere down the hall.

She tilts her head to the side, assessing, realizing that...

That she doesn't know this one. She knows the sounds of all her nieces and nephews crying. This one young older than an infant but not yet a proper kid - and the only child she knows of that age is Seraphina. But Sera - that's not her...

Ella stands quickly, heading for her door, her ears collecting more information as she goes. That the child isn't in pain, but is instead scared - freaked out, really. And that with every moment, the child is coming closer. Ella whips open the door, her eyes already wide and going wider when she sees the group of boys standing just outside.

Her boys - Rafe and Jesse, and Jackson at their center, and Mark and Ben flanking on either side -

And held in Jackson's arms, a tiny little girl, her head tilted back as she screams to the ceiling.

"Help," Jackson says, looking between the girl and Ella in panic. "Please - please I need your help -"

Ella gasps and waves all of the boys into her office, glancing down the hall with a snarled warning at anyone who might be coming close. But there's no one there, so she slams the door shut and spins back towards the room, her eyes moving immediately for the crying child.

taking a few steps closer before pausing in her shock in her confusion. "What

the connection between them immediately obvious. Because even if the little girl's face is red with emotion

strong turn to her

but it's obvious. Immediately it's obvious who her father is -

her hips, unable to help the little smile that comes to her mouth. "This is...this is a surprise, isn't

young men just

Jesse. "You're both big brothers who a whole hoard of

heads to stare at Marigold, shame taking its rightful place on

flashing through her alongside her worry and her surprise and quite a bit of

away, her motherly instincts kicking in as she moves quickly towards Jackson, reaching for the little girl. Because even if his life just got complicated as hell,

snessing,

young lady," Ella says, laughing

making a

pauses for

surprised, turning towards Ella's

him. Ella's heart absolutely swells as she moves her eyes to Jackson's face, sees his heart break in a moment to see the little girl scared and clinging to him - either because her instincts are telling her to trust