The Reckoning (Zodiac Academy, #3)

by Caroline Peckham

Now, I was adrift without her, my heart trying to tear its way out of my chest in a bid to go to her.

“I could have lost you in that battle, or I could have died without ever knowing how this might have played out…”

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.”

“Biggest fucking mistake of my life. I’d rather bleed than feel what I did when I saw his mouth on yours.”

“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.”

“There are countless people who would say I’m not allowed to want you,” Darius breathed. “But you make me want to burn the whole world down so that I can claim you for my own.”