Chapter 0766
Jesse just stares at the girl standing before him, wondering if this is some sort of game, some ruse she’s playing to trick him into feeling sorry for her. Because he’s got a tender heart – he knows that, as much as he tries to hide it from everyone else. Could this girl have figured that out and is now using those big brown eyes, that sad question, to trick him? But even as he thinks it his wolf nips him, hard.

Can’t you see it? His wolf hisses, livid with Jesse. This girl is neglected and all alone. The God of Darkness has ruined her wolf – and he’s been using her to spy on you. She has nothing, and you cannot even be kind to her?

Jesse’s wolf nips him again, hard, ashamed.

And Jesse flinches and blinks again, staring with pity down into Midnight’s sweet, broken little face. Because even if it sounds absurd, when Jesse looks into Midnight’s dark eyes he knows…that it’s absolutely true. That she is some kind of…bizarre orphan of Darkness, raised here alone, with the sole purpose of spying on him and his family.

Or perhaps as…punishment? For him, for his family, for the Goddess? God, but Jesse doesn’t know – he doesn’t understand anything at all.

And as he realizes it, Jesse’s heart reaches for this strange lost girl. For his fated mate, the girl the Goddess picked for him.

“Of course I like you, Midnight,” Jesse says, quiet and gentle, taking a step closer but not taking her hand, still wary of the corruption in her soul. “Go ahead. Show me your house.