The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 925

Jackson nearly trips over his own feet when he feels it.

“Are you all right?” Ella asks, pausing in her steps to turn and look up at Jackson, frowning slightly.

He just goes still, ignoring Ella, staring at the little girl because…

Was that…a question? He felt? Down…down the bond?

The little girl shrinks away from him, her mouth pulling into a thin line, and he groans a little – realizing that he’s frightening her, just staring at her with the ferocity and intensity of a lion. Jackson immediately turns to the bond, very carefully passing assurance and calm down it, hoping that it’s…right. That it’s okay. That she can feel it and it’s…normal to do that.

The little girl goes still for a second and then perks up, smiling at her father.

Smiling.

Jackson groans aloud, his heart breaking at the sight of his little girl smiling at him for the first time. He reaches out a hand and strokes it over her dark hair, marveling at the silky softness of it.

His little girl. His. Absolutely his.

And she smiles.

Jackson reaches for Marigold as she reaches for him, and suddenly she’s up in his arms, clasped tight against his chest, and he closes his eyes, tucking his head down next to hers.

“There,” Ella says with a happy sigh. “That’s better. That’s nice, isn’t it?”

Jackson opens his eyes a little to peek at Ella, a tiny smile on his lips.

Ella beams at him, her hands clasped beneath her chin. “Daughters are amazing,” she whispers.

Jackson nods once and then starts forward again, eager to keep going, to get Marigold something to eat. Because he can feel it now, down the bond, the gnawing hunger that is perhaps so ever-constant that she doesn’t know any different.

Jackson sends a mental image of cheese down the bond and feels her respond with eager happiness. His face bursts into a smile.