“Do you…just want to go back to be with the whore?” she whispers.
Jesse grits his teeth against a sigh because…well. Because he does want to see Daphne again. Very, very badly. “Mids, I promise that I want to go back to keep us safe.”
“Are you going to go to her?” she snaps, turning to him with a frown.
“You are my first priority,” he says, assured, leaning close to her. “I actually want you two to meet –“
She snarls, turning away, and Jesse grimaces, realizing he may have said the wrong thing.
“Midnight,” he sighs, dropping his head into his hands. “Please.”
“I don’t want to leave my house,” she says, quite mournful.
“You’ll have a new house – a whole palace –“
“No,” she snarls, starting to cry. “I want…this is my home, Jesse. It’s the only home I’ve ever had.”
He sighs and looks up at her again, realizing that his offer was callous. “Then we’ll take it with us.”
“What?” she says, turning towards him in surprise.
“We’ll take it, the whole thing,” he says with a shrug. “Whatever you want, Mids. We’ll do it.”
“You’re not just saying that?” she whispers. “To make me go?”
“Midnight, I love you very much,” Jesse says, putting both of his hands on her shoulders. “I want you to have everything that you want and need. If that is this yurt, then hell yeah we’re taking it to Moon Valley.”
She looks to the side, her mouth twisting. “And I can decide…who comes in and out of the yurt?”
“Of course,” he says, his heart lifting.
She turns back just a little to glare at him from the corner of her dark eye. “So…I can have a rule? No whores in my yurt?”
Jesse works hard to fight his smile and fails. “Not a single whore in the yurt, Midnight. I promise.”
She exhales slowly with her eyes closed.
Jesse waits, barely breathing.
“Fine,” Midnight snaps, suddenly jumping to her feet. “But we have to go now.”
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy