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Darcy's eyes locked with mine and my lungs compressed. Why was it so fucking difficult to cut her out of me? One look was enough to make me consider risking everything I’d ever worked for.
Why did we have to hold hands for this? My palm was tingling, and it had nothing to do with magic and everything to do with the insanely attractive asshole in front of me.
The scent of cinnamon rolled over me and fire reached deep inside me, making me consider leaning in for a kiss. We’d made a solid decision to stay away from each other and look where we’d ended up already? Great effort.
“I can't think straight around you,”
“I could have lost you in that battle, or I could have died without ever knowing how this might have played out…”
My Atlas pinged and I took it out of my bag, my soul fraying as I found a private message waiting for me from Orion. Lance: What if I don't want it to stop?
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.
Roxy Vega might have been the most irritatingly rude and stubborn girl I’d ever met but she was fucking hot. And with the stupid games we played together while I was tutoring her in her fire magic, I had to admit that I’d imagined her stripping for me more than once.
She pressed her face to my chest and my heart leapt a little as she leaned into me like I was someone who could protect her.
“Don’t leave me,”
I very much doubted she had any idea who was holding her. If she did, she would likely be telling me to get the hell off of her. But she asked me not to leave and I found that I didn’t want to.
I hadn’t spent the last few weeks trailing her around campus to protect her from them just to quit now and leave her vulnerable.
Fuck it’s like someone picked apart my deepest desires and brought every fantasy I’ve ever had to life. Why did it have to be her? Why did I have to lust after one of the only people in the whole of Solaria who I could never have?
“Don’t go,”
“I don’t think you really-” “Please don’t leave me alone,”
I should have been pissed at her for intruding on my space like this but somehow, I didn’t mind at all.
she just wouldn’t have been herself without her smart mouth. And I was beginning to realise that I might like that, and a few other things about her, just a bit too much.
My eyes were closed so I couldn’t see him, but I just felt oddly at home. Like this was where I was meant to be. My hand lay on the hard muscles of his abs, and I slowly started tracing the lines the muscles created with my fingertips, not wanting to shatter the peace of the dream by opening my eyes.
Darius was just watching me like I was somehow fascinating to him, and I couldn’t help but stare back into his deep brown eyes. His thumb shifted, painting a line of fire across my thigh and my heart thumped a little harder in response.
The scent of cedar and smoke coiled around me like a caress and for half a second I was back in his arms.
I felt Orion's eyes burning into me as I continued cleaning up just like he'd asked, and my heart pattered excitedly.
“You're jealous.” I inhaled sharply as he scooped me up, turning around and planting me on the edge of his desk. He stepped between my knees and desire rippled through me. “She's not my girlfriend.”
His skin was weaponised, and I was the victim of his lethal touch.
Blue means you like me. I did like him.
Seeing another guy's hands on you makes me want to rip out their eyes so they never get to look at you again.
Orion made me want to jump in the deep end of this desire headfirst without question. And though I was completely terrified of that, it also made me feel incredibly alive.
His fingers intertwined with mine and he leaned in closer, his body so agonisingly close to pressing against me. Energy crackled between those tiny inches parting us, making it almost unbearable not to cross the distance.
“I'm gonna lose my mind over you,”
the rush I got when his power poured into me was heady and addictive. It lit up every inch of my flesh and awoke desires in me which I refused to admit to around him.
Darius reached out for me, his fingers brushing against mine and making my gut flip over as he hooked a finger around my thumb, grazing it up the centre of my palm. A shiver of energy shuddered straight through my body at the tiny point of contact, my heart lurching in surprise as I failed to pull away from him.
there’s no you and Darius,”
“But you might be doomed if that’s not what you want because I saw the way he was looking at you and Darius always gets what he wants once he sets his mind to it.”
I couldn’t help but remember waking up in his arms and feeling like I actually belonged there for several long minutes.
I couldn’t really hide the smile which was trying to fight its way onto my lips and with a jolt of surprise I realised I was actually enjoying Darius’s company.
Darius started laughing too and I leaned into him as my smile nearly split my face in two.
This girl is made for me.
I was so not a possessive person but something purely animal awoke in me when I was around Orion. And I was kind of afraid of the certainty with which I wanted 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.”
Roxy’s green eyes found me in the dark, the way they’d widened slightly as my fingers gripped her neck. The flicker of her pulse against my thumb, which gave away exactly what she thought of me in that moment. She thought I might kill her. She’d believed it. I’d wanted her to fear me and succeeded in painting myself as a monster in her eyes. So why did that suddenly seem like a bad thing?
I swallowed thickly and opened my eyes again, not wanting to look at her in my mind. Which was where she was. Too fucking often.
“I’m trying to get Diego Polaris’s saliva off of my girl,” he growled.
I’d rather bleed than feel what I did when I saw his mouth on yours.”
Are you freaking crazy???
Yes. For you ;)
“When we were in the battle and you were about to die, I felt compelled to save you. Like…if I didn’t a part of me would die too. And ever since then, that part of me is getting stronger like it’s become this tangible thing that lives in me. I’ve never been a jealous person before but when I see you with Francesca it’s like I turn into an animal with nothing but basic instincts.”
“Good, because I feel it too.”
“I just want someone to make my heart beat faster,” she said in a low voice that had me drawing closer to her as I looked into her dark eyes. “To challenge me and make me laugh and push back against my bullshit. I want to be forced out of my comfort zone and I want to feel excited, exhilarated, afraid. But not just because you’re an asshole. Because I want to feel alive.”
This girl was going to be the death of me. I couldn’t resist that glint in her eye or the challenge in her tone and I was pretty sure she knew it.
I’m sure you’ll look good enough in anything you wear. Just turn up as you are.
She wasn’t just a girl though. Not to me. She was the one girl I shouldn’t want, the one I couldn’t have, the one I didn’t need. And yet I did. And everything in my life could be damaged so badly by that need that I’d fought it tooth and claw up until this point.
