The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 544

No, they’re tangible things, wrapping hard around Alvez’s neck, his limbs, his body, extensions of Jesse’s will.

“Who are you,” Jesse growls, his voice echoing in the room, bizarrely doubled so that it sounds like there are two of him – one his normal voice, one much deeper – a dark purr. “What the fuck do you want?”

Jesse tightens his fingers around Alvez’s throat once more and Rafe and I go rigid with shock when we see Jesse’s hand slip, somehow, inward –

Not because he’s ripped Alvez’s flesh open but because – because…

My mouth drops open and I stop breathing – I have no explanation.

But Jesse’s snarl deepens as he begins to pull, drawing something forward towards him.

A great shadow begins to emerge from Alvez’s form, held tight in Jesse’s hand. At first it’s Alvez’s double, but as Jesse steps back and pulls it further forward, it becomes clear that the man who emerges is…

Is not Alvez at all.

Is someone much, much worse.

Alvez’s eyes roll back in his head as the shadow is pulled free and he collapses to the floor in a heap of flesh.

But none of our eyes are on him. Instead, they’re on the incredibly tall shadow of a man whose throat is still held in Jesse’s fist.

“Well, little demigod,” the shadow man snarls. “Looks like my girl has found you at last.”