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We will show those cowardly Nymphs who skulk in the shadows that we cannot be broken. Not even for a moment.”
My eyes sharpened and my smile fell away dramatically. This guy wasn't casually interested in me, he was fucking interrogating me. And that riled up a fierce storm in my blood. You wanna dance, shitbag? I've been to hell and back tonight, so you're a walk in the park.
At Zodiac Academy, they called this Hell Week. And this year, it was more literal than ever.
WELCOME TO HELL WEEK! You and the rest of the freshman class are now formally beginning the week leading up to The Reckoning. During this week you must pass the trials of your Elements before taking part in the final assessment which will determine whether you are worthy of your place at our prestigious academy. To make sure you are thoroughly challenged, the rest of the student body will be
throwing further tests your way at every turn and making your lives hell! Will you make the cut for this year’s official enrolment? It’s time to prove how Fae you are. Yours - Principal Nova
“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.
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?
I 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.
It had been a fucking school night, what had I been thinking getting wasted like that? I’d wanted to have a drink, but the stars only knew what had pushed me to have so much. I could remember feeling buzzed and then it
just went black. How had I managed to hop from tipsy to blackout without seeing it coming?
His thumb skated over my other breast, and I revelled in the bliss, his touch like a stone dropped in a heated pool, the ripples of ecstasy chasing each other through to my clit.
The storm rattled the windows like it was threatening to get in. But nothing could touch us here. Not the rules which bound us, or the lines drawn in the sand between us where he stood with the Heirs, and I stood with my sister. Here, we were nothing but two Fae who craved each other with a force that rivalled mother nature. And I could no longer resist the call of its power.
There was one thin towel dividing my body from these two gorgeous men and my blood was pumping like mad with a mixture of mortification and something a little less respectable.
“-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.”
“Well right now I just want a friend. Stop pointing out my flaws and just agree with me while I rant about the situation.” “Okay, if you think it’ll make you feel better,” Lance agreed. “Tory Vega is such a bitch. You went way too easy on her, and I really hope she’s off somewhere crying right now because she knows how wrong she is.”
I stormed over, snatching it from the desk before he could pour a glass. “Deal with your emotions.” I pointed the bottle at him. “Drowning them doesn’t make them go away.” He stared at me as if no one had ever pointed out his drinking habit before (especially with the actual bottle). And as if no one had ever told him to stop. Well, I was telling him now and he was going to goddamn listen.
“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.”
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.
