The Reckoning (Zodiac Academy, #3)

by Caroline Peckham

Blue means you like me.

In Solaria blue means royal. And to me, blue means you.

We were baiting each other. This was inevitable. He knew it. I knew it. And frankly, we were fooling ourselves to believe we hadn't already crossed a threshold into forbidden territory on multiple occasions.

Darius was looking down at me, his eyes wild with panic as he brushed my hair away from my face. He was saying something and it took me a moment to push aside the echoing in my ears so that I could listen to him. “-would fucking break me. So don’t you dare give in to them. I’ll follow you into the shadows if I have to and drag you away from them kicking and screaming. Because they can’t have you. They fucking can’t.”

“Any asshole can push a girl in the mud, it’s got nothing to do with your power or hers,” Caleb snarled. “And it’s a petty fucking thing to do to her.”

“I’m trying to get Diego Polaris’s saliva off of my girl,” he growled.

I took her attention whatever way I could get it because all the time it was on me it lit me up and made me burn. And I wanted to burn with her more than I think I’d ever wanted anything in my life.

“Because that’s what I do,” he said slowly. “I watch you and hunger for you and ache for you. It torments me like I torment you.”

“I’d find it easier to carve my eyes out than I would to stop them landing on you.”