The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 1009

She has to admit though...the stars are a pleasant addition.

Midnight's wolf gives a little worried howl, sprawled out in her soul, her little legs too weak to carry her much or far these days. But Midnight smiles a little and strokes a mental hand over her wolf's fur, pleased to see her free and clear and happy. Excited now to have that for herself too.

The world just...open for her. Infinitely possible. Midnight smiles, looking up at the stars in the velvety black sky, full of hope.

But beneath that hope curls...worry. Dread. Because she knows...

Well, I know what I want now, don't I? she thinks, sighing long through her nose. And to get it...I have to hurt the one who loves me most.

Midnight turns her head towards the creaking of the window, and then the footstep that sounds on the roof next to her.

"There you are," Jesse says, strolling over to her with his hands in his pockets, a little frown on his lips. "We were worried for you, Mids. Are you okay up here?"

"I'm okay," she says, giving him a soft smile.

His frown deepens, his eyes narrowing, suspicious. "You're all...calm," he murmurs. "I don't trust it."

She grins, patting the roof next to her. Her mate sits down with a sigh, looping his arms around his knees. They sit that way for a long time, just looking up at the sky together, basking in the cool air and the quiet and the solitude. But then he leans closer to her, nudging her shoulder with his, inviting – or requesting - for her to tell him what's wrong.

the roof tiles. "I...I think I need to make some

right," he says,

and out of her element, but determined

"Of course."

words spilling off her tongue like they've been waiting there a long time. "I've been...just waiting for you to

goes still but stays silent, letting her

thing that was important. That one day he would show me how to find you, and that it would be my job to bear your pups, and that we would raise them all to worship Darkness. And that you would love me and everything would beright. And I...I was so excited when Darkness

takes a deep breath, opening her eyes and turning

hours. And you were so funny. And

swallows hard, getting choked up

what Darkness promised, in the end," she whispers, dropping her eyes again to

laughs a little, a strangled

tears finding their way down her cheeks. “You saved me instead of the other way around. And you brought me home and made me family. And gave me...so much. I love you so much, Jesse, I

around her and pulling her tight. "You don't have to be grateful.

you promise not

never hate you - I couldn't. But...why on earth do you

whispers, shaking her head, her black curls bouncing lightly. "I'm going to ask you