The Reckoning (Zodiac Academy, #3)

by Caroline Peckham

She’d fought at my side tonight with the fierceness of a warrior. And she’d saved my fucking life. Now, I was adrift without her, my heart trying to tear its way out of my chest in a bid to go to her. Does this change things? No. It couldn’t. I couldn’t let it. I’d sworn to keep away from her, but after tonight, after how close we’d both come to death, a small voice had awoken in my head that whispered, fuck it, we could be dead tomorrow.

!!!

“Congratulations, Roxy. Looks like we’ve got a date Wednesday night then.” I ignored the flutter in my chest as he called it a date because it absolutely didn’t take place. “Maybe I’ve already got plans Wednesday,” I said. “Yeah, you do. With me.”

id fold

“Hey! I didn’t know you were joining us today,” she said, throwing a look at Darius who shrugged dismissively. “I didn’t realise it mattered,” he said. “You could have just posted in the group chat,” she complained. “It’s not exactly hard.”

sassy man apocalypse

Lance: I guess you’re about to go back to radio silence so for what it’s worth… In Solaria blue means royal. And to me, blue means you.

OH MY GODDDD

“Don’t go,” he breathed and there was a strange kind of plea in his voice.

omg

“If you don't kiss me I'll go mad,” his voice rumbled through his chest and a magnetic heat tugged me toward him.

AHHHHHHH HOLY SHIT

Caleb drew back and looked into my eyes for a moment, a smile pulling at his lips as he slowly lowered down onto his knees before me.

GASP

I've not even been here a term and I just screwed a teacher.

good for her tbh

Before he could move me again, my hand landed on his chest. “I should go,” I breathed. “Stay,” he replied instantly.

ID FOLD

Darius had his face pressed to my bedroom window with his hands cupped around his eyes, rain burning away around him as it touched the heated power emanating from him. “Hey,” I hissed. “Get inside peeping Tom.”

puh lease

Darius: I’m coming over. Text me back asshole. Darius: I’m outside. Darius: It’s raining.

sassy man apocalypse

I didn’t understand half of what had just happened but one thing was completely and utterly clear to me and I was going to make sure I never forgot it again. Darius Acrux was not my friend. He was cruel and mean and ruthless and he wouldn’t bat an eye at hurting me a hundred times in a thousand different ways. I never should have tried to see him as anything other than what he was. And I wouldn’t be making that mistake ever again.

girl ugh ur so dense he just saved ur ass again

“You’ll get over it.” He brushed his thumb across my neck to heal the bite mark and I glowered at him. “That’s all you have to say? I’ll get over it?” I hissed. “Well…yeah.” He shrugged, seeming kind of out of his depth for a second.

men.