The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 1011

"I love you, Jesse," Midnight whispers, watching him, her little mouth trembling, her entire body feeling weak.

"I love you too, Mids," he replies. "Always."

She nods once. And then disappears.

Midnight fights hard against her emotions as she flits through the castle, moving back and forth between the Land of Darkness and the halls, using her shadows to disguise her progress. She barely concentrates on the push and the pull of the magic, so instinctual is it to her. Instead, her emotions are almost fully drawn to her sweet wolf, who howls so miserably in her soul.

"I know, pup," Midnight says aloud, sniffing hard. "We'll go lay down soon. Just... one more thing."

She appears outside the door she's looking for, low and deep in the castle, and then takes one last breath, flitting to Darkness and then stepping forward so she can appear in the seamstress's room.

Daphne shrieks when the demon appears. She skitters back and falls out of the little chair in front of the sewing table.

"Well, that's a little dramatic," Midnight says, frowning.

Daphne just pants, scuttling backwards like a crab, pressing herself up against the bed. Midnight sighs and rolls her eyes a little, deeply unsure as to why Jesse likes this one so much.

"Look, your boyfriend is on the roof and he's all sad," Midnight says, crossing her arms and looking up at the ceiling. She swallows hard, doing her best to appear very brash and tough so the girl won't see that she's been crying. "Also, I'm sorry I called you a whore. I've been assured that you're...very nice. I hope we can be friends and that you'll make me lots of uniforms."

ragged breaths, staring terrified

over her shoulder at the door. "But I rejected him, so he's really upset. You should probably go to

girl sputters, staring at Midnight

vanishes and starts off into the night, wanting very much to go to her bed and starting the long process of putting back together the shattered pieces

just a moment ago, wondering if...if she just imagined it. But then she gasps as her mind gets over its

herself to her feet and stumbling to the

top of the library and scrambles out of it, gasping

noise, going still when he sees her kneeling there, gasping for air,

staring at him, aghast and completely out of

to jump

up. But then he groans, the physical pain of

cries, crawling over

eyes and wiping at the tears on his

see them.

smacks him

to her, giving

at him.