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.

pausing in her

connection between them immediately obvious. Because

strong turn to her jaw? And her scent, piney

obvious

unable to help the little smile that

of the young men just stare at her,

come on," Ella says, flashing a hand out at Rafe and Jesse. "You're both big brothers who a whole

stare at

this sorted," Ella says, joy flashing through her alongside her worry and her surprise and quite a

reaching for the little girl. Because even if his life just

snessing,

young lady," Ella says, laughing a bit and smiling at the

making

pauses for

surprised, turning towards Ella's

scrabbling, her hands grabbing at Jackson's shirt as she tucks her face close against 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