The Reckoning (Zodiac Academy, #3)

by Caroline Peckham

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.”

And I wouldn’t be making that mistake ever again.

we will see about that

“For a moment there I felt like I was looking at Lionel instead of a man who swore never to be like him.”

ope that's tuff tuff

I was still angry, so damn angry, but I couldn’t stop kissing him. I clawed at his arms then wrapped my hand around his tie and pulled hard enough to choke him. He dragged me away from the window, shoving me up against the door instead, every part of us colliding. Our bodies, our mouths, our souls. It was sloppy and desperate and everything. I groaned,

what the actual fuck

“I need you to talk to Diego Polaris. I believe his Uncle Alejandro is up to something criminal that involves Darius’s father.”

I CALLES IT

Had those words been referring to Lionel?

or maybe Diego?

I didn’t like to admit it, but I was starting to accept that Seth had feelings for me. And for some reason that terrified me far more than him hating me ever could.

ew Seth is so creepy

Caleb asked incredulously. “What does it matter to you?” Darius snapped. “It’s just a bit...” “What?” he snarled. “Weak,” Caleb snapped back,

thank you Caleb 10 points for you

Who didn’t like fucking a girl who smiled the whole time like you were doing her a favour with every thrust?

Joy. Exhilaration. Relief. And that might have been the most terrifying thing I’d experienced all night.