The Reckoning (Zodiac Academy, #3)

by Caroline Peckham

“That’s just the part of my brain which is blinded by his hotness. I refuse to listen to her because she’s a slut.

“I want you to the point of pain, Blue.”

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.”

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

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.

I headed down the trail to the beach with one thing on my mind and the determination to get it if there was even the slightest chance I could. Roxy Vega, I’m gonna make you mine.

“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.”