The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 884

Rafe’s eyes fly wide as he stares at his cousin, shocked.

What…what the fuck is this?

“Hey, guys!” Jesse says, his voice tight and falsely cheerful as he strides over to his family, all of them staring at him, agape. Jesse keeps his smile fixed on his face even as he glares around at his parents, his uncle, and his favorite cousin, silently demanding that they play along. “This is my mate, Midnight! She’s really fantastic and I’m sure she’ll be glad to meet you soon but she…she did not like the helicopter.”

“Infernal machine,” Midnight hisses, lifting her face. Cora gasps at the sight of the hollow pits of darkness in the place of the girl’s eyes, the shadows that stream from the dark ruin of her mouth. “Cursed metal bird – carrying people in its belly like eggs! We are lucky to have survived! It should be destroyed – I will destroy it!”

She spins then, casting shadows out from her hand that streak towards the helicopter. Rafe gasps as the pilot’s eyes go wide, but Jesse turns and grabs at the shadows himself, almost like grabbing a cat by the tail, hauling them back.

“Mids,” Jesse growls down at the girl still in his arms. “What did we agree on, regarding the destruction of vehicles?” The shadows suck neatly into his outstretched hand, obedient and trim.

Midnight’s face turns down in a trembling little frown, her personal shadows receding almost completely from her visage so that Rafe can see that she’s not some kind of monster just…

Just a girl. A really, really frightened, tiny, skinny girl with big brown eyes and a sweet, heart-shaped face that has masses of dark curls tumbling around it.

“We agreed to temporarily contain the urge for destruction,” she whispers. “Until we have more information and can make an informed decision regarding whether or not it a vehicle or…a foul beast that needs to face a bloody end.”