The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 568

“What do you mean?” the Goddess asks, grinning at Jesse, clearly a little entertained and looking around the room as if she’s going to see Jesse’s mate hiding in a corner or something. “Of course you’ve met your mate – that’s how it works! My magical gifts can’t develop until your mate comes along to spark them – that’s why I gave you the mates. But also,” she laughs again as she shrugs, “for fun.”

A little pulse of shock goes through me as the Goddess admits this – both that Jesse has a mate and that, somehow, he’s met her. And the confirmation that magic develops once you’ve met your mate…god, but that’s important news.

Down our bond, I feel Jackson go still – anxiety turning in him as he wonders why his magic developed so soon before he met me.

“I – I’m sorry, Goddess,” Jesse says, pressing his hand to his heart. “But my wolf and I – we have not found our mate. How can I have accessed my magic?”

The Goddess frowns, humming deeply and reaching for Jesse again, pressing her hand to his forehead and concentrating this time. Then she sighs, putting her hands on her hips.

“Well, that’s odd – you truly have no memories of meeting her,” she says, clearly frustrated. “But…if you have your magic, then you have met your mate. Or,” she shrugs, “she has met you. The spark is biological – if your body came close to hers – if you smelled or sensed her, even if you were, perhaps, unconscious? It would have been enough.”

The Goddess shrugs like it could be anything and turns away from my cousin, even as Jesse’s eyes go wide because…well, it’s a very creepy thought, isn’t it?

Still, there’s no time to rest on it as the Goddess turns to me at last, her face breaking into her most beautiful smile. “And there she is,” the Goddess says with a happy sigh, flitting to me next and likewise taking my face in her palms. “My little granddaughter,” she laughs her tinkling laugh that sounds like bells and joy and moonlight, looking over her shoulder at Cora and mom as she wrinkles her nose. “Looks like me, doesn’t she?”

“Yes,” Cora says with a happy little smile. “Yes, she certainly does.”

I just stare up at the Goddess in disbelief because…there’s no way. There’s no way I can look at all like someone who is that beautiful.

“And what do you think?” the Goddess says, turning back to me and laughing again as she leans towards me, conspiratorial, nodding sideways towards Jackson. “Do you like my choices?”

I glance towards Jackson, who still just stares between the Goddess and I in awe.

“Yes,” I say, laughing a little too as I turn my eyes to Jacks, whom I love so incredibly much. I raise my hand to cover hers as it presses to my cheek. “Yes, I like him very much. Thank you.”