The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0935

"But," Jesse says, raising his glass again to me in toast. "I think that you're going to be great, Ari. I think this is weird, and challenging, but that...I don't know. I think that it could be really good."

"Mom always says babies are a blessing, however they come," I say on a sigh, looking down into my glass, hoping that she's right. Hoping that I can do this- support Jackson, and help to raise Marigold, and play the roles in their lives that they need me to be. Inwardly, even as I quail, I feel myself step up to the challenge.

Because I want to do it. As strange and as fast as it all is - I want it.

"What babies are blessings?"

My dad's voice echoes from the door and I jump a little spinning towards him. My eyes go wide and my face goes a bit pale as twin smiles break out on Rafe and Jesse's faces – both wicked, both desperately interested to see how this goes down.

"Pour yourself a drink, dad," I say on a sigh, gesturing towards the bar cart. "We've got some news for you."

Dad stills at the door, glaring between Jesse and Rafe. "Who got who pregnant?” he growls, suspicious. "God damn it, I told you boys -"

blotting the rest of that sentence from my hearing even as Rafe and Jesse

"God damn it,

out as she comes into the living room,

whiskey in a glass, grabbing next for the bottle of wine she likes next. "Well, you look...suspiciously cheerful,

happy sigh, stepping close to dad and pressing herself to his side as she looks up into his

smiling down at her with a great deal of love on his face, making my stomach flutter at the sight. God, to love someone that intensely for

be

murmurs, grinning at she accepts the glass of wine from his hand. “But

hums his agreement, his eyes flashing over mom's face as

al.ne

eyes, flushed cheeks, utter happiness...this

room," she says, grinning

realizes that she's not kidding and then whips