Live and Let Lionel (Zodiac Academy, #8.6)

by Caroline Peckham

“I’m always good when you’re close, Cal,” I said, giving him a sideways smile as we started walking after Max and Darius, the sound of music reaching us from the springs. My pants were still slit open over my ass, but I was kinda enjoying the breeze dancing across my butt cheeks. “Don’t ever disappear on me.” “I won’t,” Cal swore, and those words gilded my heart in iron, strengthening it until it was an impenetrable thing that no one could get inside. No one but him and my boys.

Oh... Sad

“Umm, Darius? I just thought you should know that bottle has Footloose Faraday in it,”

Lmao

Geraldine shrieked as I collided with her but before she could do a thing to fight me off, I had her pressed against the rocky side of one of the pools and my fangs were sinking deep into the flesh of her throat.

OMG

“Fifty points from Terra for showing your cock to a teacher, Altair,” he snapped, his nose wrinkling as he glared at me and I glared right back.

I love him

“Lance,” he greeted and I noticed that he wasn’t docked house points for having his fucking cock out.

He likes his cock theres a difference

I opened my mouth to call after them but the sound of my name drew my attention to the water and I turned to find a group of four girls giggling and waving at me, all of them very much naked and the invitation they were offering up clear.

Wait this is THAT shimmering springs story

“Damn, are you sure you aren’t at least a little bit gay, Cal?” he teased. “Because you look real good all wet and thirsty.”

Hes very gay for you

Seth tugged his fingers out of her, pulling my hand away too and barking a command at her to work harder as his fingers knotted in my hair and he jerked me around to look at him. “Tell me you want me, Cal and I’m all yours,” he said, his eyes flashing with a cocky kind of power and I snarled as I bared my bloodstained fangs at him.

This is crazy

“By the stars,” Seth moaned as I pushed him back against the rock wall, my cock driving against his thigh and the lust ignited by the pure power laced within his blood making me grind my hips against him without thought.

I....

“Don’t mind me!” I jerked back in alarm at the sound of Professor Washer’s voice behind me, spinning and finding him emerging from the water on the far side of the cave, his Siren scales coating his skin and a smile on his lips which was all kinds of false embarrassment.

This motherfucker...

Seth was my best friend and I wasn’t attracted to guys anyway.

Deny Deny deny

Linda Rigel had been recruited into my confidence, her clear preference for her second-born child a little boggling, yet simple to exploit. I only had to breathe a hint of my support for the girl and she was more than willing to whisper titbits about Tiberius’s schemes in my ear.

Wow....

An alternate POV of the night Darcy came to his door with blue hair in Zodiac Academy 3: The Reckoning

Scream!!

Enjoy your evening, Orio. You’re set to have a better one than him, I think. Orio: What have you seen? Noxy: Nothing specific…

If he knew that darcy was his sister now hed die

“I called you a bloodsucker,” Polaris said, but his voice cracked with fear. “It's not an insult, just a fact.”

He was a brave little toaster

“Dear diary,” I taunted. “Today I was almost murdered by my asshole Cardinal Magic professor. I won't backchat him ever again because the next time I do I think I'll end up in a body bag for real.” I moved to step away then paused, leaning close once more with a calculating grin as I decided on how best to destroy him. “P.S. I have a major crush on Darcy Vega, but she doesn't seem to realise it. I wonder what she'll say when she finds out.” I strolled out of the door into the storm, letting the rain beat down on me instead of keeping it away with my air magic.

This is still so fucked up

The alcoholic loser professor who had no prospects in life and whose only pleasure in this world came from tormenting the students he was meant to teach.

My sweet Lance

An alternate POV of the Fairy Fair from Zodiac Academy 3: The Reckoning

Ahhhh

Perhaps I would have realised that Lance Orion had been bewitched by Gwendalina Vega and was in the process of damning himself for nothing more than the pleasure of wetting his dick with a princess of Solaria.

You...are the worst

Since I’d thrown the bottle of bourbon out of my office window, I hadn’t indulged in a single drop. And thanks to my ragingly fun need to escape my head most of the time, especially since things still felt so fucked between Darcy and I, I’d resorted to this shit.

One addiction for another

I kicked on my shoes, the soles of them made with toughened Minogum, just like all of my shoes were. The Vamporium was a designer store specialising in footwear for my Order, and they were made to withstand grinding against any surface right up to our top speed.

I didnt need to know this but fascinating intel

If he touches her, I’ll slice him open and bake all his innards into a pie. I don’t even bake, but for him, I’ll don a little pink apron, make the pastry from scratch, and cook up a pie so damn good that I win first prize in a local baking contest.

So fucking possessive

“Nothing.” Just a blue-haired princess who’s an heir to the throne of our entire kingdom, and my student, who I am entirely forbidden from laying a hand on.

I felt Darcy’s eyes scalding the flesh from my bones and was relieved to finally be getting some reaction from her, to know that this hurt her just like she’d hurt me. It was petty, immature, and cruel, but I was so full of jealousy that I knew if I didn’t do this, I’d do something far worse to Polaris. I’d rip his head clean from his shoulders and earn myself a stretch in Darkmore for a far less tempting sin than the one I had already committed with Darcy.

DEAR BRAIN, FUCK NO. SINCERELY, COCK

I took out my Atlas, quickly downloading an app which would keep my number anonymous, then making a call to the FIB. I ran a hand over my throat, casting a spell on my voice to make it sound different as the call connected.

Hes psycho

“Woah, you taste like heartbreak and jealousy, man,” Max commented, smoothing a hand over his red mohawk, and I slammed my mental shields up hard, forcing him out. “Who gutted you and left you here like an unwanted fish?” “No one,” I growled.

Oops

“So where’s the fourth Ninja Turtle?” I looked around for Caleb, and Darius spewed smoke between his lips, making me arch a brow at him. “You haven’t had a fight with Michelangelo, have you?”

LMAO

“Pfft,” Seth cut in. “Excuse me, but I’d be Michelangelo. Caleb’s Leonardo. Darius is Raphael, and Max is Donatello. Oh, and I guess that makes you the mutant rat, sir. Master Splinter.”

“I was just telling Darius how well your mom took it last night,” I said, goading Seth, and he snarled, tossing his polar bear plushie into Max’s arms. “You motherfucker,” he hissed, lunging at me, and I shot out of his way so he went crashing into the stall behind me. “Yeah, that’s me,” I said, and he spun around in fury.

LANCE ORION

An oooh went up from the crowd and Darcy mouthed, “Don’t,” at me, but I ignored her plea, waiting for the electricity to start flowing. She needed an apology, and I intended on giving her the best one I could.

This is still a stupid apology

“Of course not, he just thinks I have a crush on you and that I’m pathetic for doing so. And a whore, apparently.”

Still pisses me off

An alternate POV of the throne room scene in Zodiac Academy 4: Shadow Princess

More sex!

We don’t care you fucked a teacher and got him sent to prison, Darcy!

Leon please......

Starcrossing yourself with an Acrux is a power move, Tory!

he tries so hard and fails

“Because we’re heirs-in-law. If the twins died and Gabriel died, and Dante died, and stars fucking forbid Elise died, then we’d be next in line.”

idiot

“I’m Leon,” I said around an intense purr. “Leon Night of the Nights, the best thieves in Solaria and your new brother.”

my heart

“That’s pretty cute actually.” Darcy took it from him and Leon offered up the black Basilisk toy next which had a cowboy hat fixed to its head. He pressed the button on its stomach and it growled, “I love pain and dry oatmeal.”

“What does Gabriel’s do?” Tory asked and Gabriel pursed his lips as Leon pressed the button on the black-winged Harpy doll like he had already seen what was coming. “Don’t call me Gabe,” it said irritably.

In hindsight, I can see the way the wind was blowing, how Caleb Altair and he were embroiled in a secret affair, and the two of them were united in their betrayal as they sided with the Vega twins.

all hail the all seeing asshole

The girl’s heart had been ripped out, stomped on, shoved through a blender, eaten by a Griffin and shat back out again.

mine too

Mmm, bossy Cal. Holy fuck, yes please.

agreed

I’m going to be the first Werewolf on the moon. I’ll probably come back with moon powers.

we can hope so puppy

And I wondered if he had to suck extra hard to get hold of my blood because it was currently all rushing to my cock like an unstoppable train.

sluts