The Reckoning (Zodiac Academy, #3)
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“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.
Jada Ashling
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My gaze raked over the picture of his tight abs glistening with water and I groaned. “Why does he have to be such an asshole?” I complained. “If he wasn’t, you probably wouldn’t like him at all,” she reasoned, and I couldn’t help but laugh at that. “That is a tragically accurate assessment,” I agreed.
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Orion stepped aside, revealing what he'd written on the board. YOU ARE ALL BOTTOM-FEEDING LOSERS. My mouth fell open as he glared at the class, looking like he was about to unleash the apocalypse on us.
Jada Ashling
Starting his classes like this is genuinely so amazing. It gets me every. single. time.
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“She's suffocating!” Jillian wailed, patting Kylie on the back as she turned blue. “Professor!” I gasped when he drew near me, and he shot me a dark glare. “Yes, Miss Vega?” he questioned, totally calm, that twisted smile pulling at his mouth. “She's choking,” I hissed, and he shifted his gaze to Kylie as if he'd just noticed her. “Five points from Aer for stating the obvious.” He strode past me, and I swivelled in my seat, glaring at his back as he went.
Jada Ashling
ORION IS A STONE COLD KILLA FR
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“If I don't get an answer in the next ten seconds, someone's head is going to be introduced to the ceiling,” Orion said coolly. Everyone started calling out answers as he held up two hands, counting down fingers one at a time. “The Nymphs?!” someone cried. “The Reckoning?” someone else tried. “Hell Week is going to kill us?” Jillian wailed. “We suck?” Diego blurted and Orion paused one second from finishing his countdown and used that finger to point at him. “What specifically do you suck at?” he demanded. “Um, everything?” Diego tried and I couldn't help the snort of laughter that escaped me.
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“Did someone want diet coke?” I asked, wondering whose drink I’d ended up with by accident. As much as I argued against Geraldine getting our food and drinks all the time, she insisted on doing it and never forgot our preferences so I doubted she would have made that mistake. Before anyone could respond, Geraldine and Angelica burst into a fit of hysterical laughter, drawing our attention away from Diego’s display of self-pity. “I g-g-got you diet!” she cried, barely able to force the words out between her laughter. “What?” I asked in confusion. “The mayo in your sandwich was half fat too!” ...more
Jada Ashling
the fact that the other upperclassmen were TORTURING freshman and this was Geraldine’s prank 😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭 she is too pure
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I still had my sunglasses on like a total douchebag, but I couldn’t bear to lower them.
Jada Ashling
Tory Vega is my spirit animal
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Orion cleared his throat, a mischievous grin pulling at his lips as he wrote today's inspirational quote on the board. YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF HORNY TEENAGERS.
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“I hope you meant the part about screwing me senseless.” Darius stood leaning against his doorframe at the end of the hall, and I mentally shrugged off the altercation with Marguerite as I stalked towards him. I rolled my eyes at him. “In your dreams.” “Every night,” he agreed, and his tone was serious enough that it brought a blush to my cheeks.
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“I have a perfectly good bed downstairs,” I replied, shaking my head just a little. “Why would you want me to stay?” Darius frowned like he wasn’t sure what to say to that, but he inched a little closer all the same. “Because it feels right,” he breathed.
Jada Ashling
🥺🥺🥺🥺
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“Do you growl at everyone like that, or do I get under your skin more than most people?” I asked. “I find you particularly frustrating,” he replied evenly.
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“He sent me a picture of them together to prove it if you don’t believe me.” Caleb pulled his Atlas from his pocket and flashed the picture Darius had taken of the two of us around at everyone. I glanced at it and was surprised at how much we looked like a happy couple in the snapshot. I was looking straight into the camera, a laughing smile on my face while Darius pressed a kiss to my head, the corner of his mouth hooked into a grin and his arm wrapped around me. “That is a pretty misleading picture,” I said lamely while Darcy mouthed ‘what the hell?’ at me behind Caleb’s back.
Jada Ashling
I LOVE THEM MORE THAN LIFE 😭❤️🥺💞😩
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“You look like you were having an absolutely marvellous set of shenanigans, Your Majesty!” Geraldine gushed, changing tact in an instant. “I didn’t know you’d become so friendly with the sexy Dragon Heir!” “Did you just call Darius Acrux sexy?” Sofia asked in surprise, and I snorted a laugh when Geraldine blushed. “Well, I have eyes!” she said defensively. “That’s not to say he’s the most attractive of the Heirs.” “Obviously,” Caleb said cockily. “No. Clearly the title of the most drool inspiring hunk of handsome goes to Max Rigel even if he is a blackhearted fiend. But Darius isn’t a bad ...more
Jada Ashling
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 even rereading this has me hurting from laughing so hard
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“-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.”
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“What the hell have I just walked in on?” Max gasped, his gaze swivelling between the destroyed Atlas, Seth, and my bleeding arm. I bared my teeth at him, and his power hit me harder, his brow pinching with concentration as he tried to wrangle the angry beast inside me. “Cal sent him an emoji,” Seth whimpered.
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“We’re going to be late at this rate,” Orion said casually, and we all looked at him in disbelief as we moved closer together.
Jada Ashling
The king of always being 10+ minutes late saying this absolutely sent me (and everyone else clearly)
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Either he kept himself in complete control or he was some kind of path. Sociopath, psychopath…both.
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I bit my lip against another smile. I had no real intention of going anywhere near Darius Acrux tonight. Probably. Maybe. Sixty-three percent. Dammit.
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You’re stronger than me girl fr
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I couldn’t get distracted by a girl. Even the girl.
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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.
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Roxy Vega, I’m gonna make you mine.
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But I was done running from him. There was something between us that couldn’t be denied any longer and it was time we faced it. 
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“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.” “Then we should burn it down,” I agreed.