The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

I can't help it. I just get incredibly jealous.

"Tell me," Jackson urges, feeling the shift in my emotions, tightening his arms

around me.

"I just want to do that," I say, laughing a little, shaking my head, feeling petulant. "It sounds so cool, and important, and... vivid. I want to do that work, Jacks. I want to help."

He nods, humming his understanding, letting me have the space to speak.

"I just...Jacks, I don't know if I'm going to be a very normal kind of mom," I say quietly, worried about it. "I don't think I can do it."

"What's a normal mom?" Jackson asks, genuinely curious.

"Like my mom," I say quietly. "Dedicated to raising the kids and keeping the family together. Letting the man in the house take charge."

"She does more than that."

"I know," I say on a sigh. "But...mom and dad fall into some really normal gender roles. It works for them. Family has always come first for mom - she loves it."

think you'll love

window at our vast and beautiful country. "But I love other things too. I think I'm more like my dad. I think

with his nose, letting me know that he means it.

his face. "You're going to do

a kiss to

are going to do everything we can to love and raise these girls," Jackson murmurs "And...I don't have any knowledge to back this up with, but I think that's all that really matters. And I think they'll be proud to

they don't?" I ask, a

that he has no idea what

ever actually have the

burst out laughing and

precisely how much I'm loved. Which is a great deal. Marigold looks over at us at the noise and smiles, two little

whispers, kissing

say on a sigh, resting against him. "We are,

we have no idea what we're doing. But the confidence wins. We're going to figure it

question is," Jackson says. "What do

do?" I whisper, turning my head to look at