The Reckoning (Zodiac Academy, #3)
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With our focus fully on maintaining our magic, we hadn’t even been attempting to keep our minds guarded from that kind of attack. The two of us stumbled to a halt, the shields blinking out of existence instantly.
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Its been weeks. Come on now
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“That's crazy, chicas.” Diego shook his head, pushing a hand through his curly black locks.
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Omg diego shut up
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“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!” Angelica added, clinging to Geraldine as she wiped tears from beneath her eyes. “Why?” I asked in confusion. “H-h-hell week!”
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I have no words....
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“Stop power fucking her and start working on what Pyro wants,” Caleb called,
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Hes downbad
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The long extinct Ismenian Dragon was once a powerful Order. As the largest of the Dragon Orders, its fire was three times the strength of its smaller cousins. Often darkest blue in colour, it had a forked tongue and poisonous breath which could kill a Fae up to fifty feet away.
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But theyve never needed to touch gold to feel better
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“Tory Vega just shut me down. I asked her to come to my room tonight, but she just messaged me saying she's not coming and that I should use this time to 'work on my personality'.” He sighed,
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HA
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Seth Capella: I AM YOUR ALPHA. IF YOU CHALLENGE ME, I WILL DESTROY YOU!!!!!!!!
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Cringe
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Lance: 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.
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Simp
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“It wasn’t your job to protect Clara either, but you did all you could, didn’t you?” I asked. Lance’s jaw ticked. “Not enough.” “No. Not enough to save her from my father. And he didn’t even want her to die...what chance does Xavier have?”
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Is Xavier the person theyre going to use on that event cause that would be terrible
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“Do you want to know a secret?” she breathed, her voice lowering seductively. “What?” I asked, wanting to hear anything and everything she might ever want to tell me. She leaned a little closer and her long hair tickled my skin. “I think,” she breathed slowly. “That I’m going to puke.”
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Shes so funny
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pretty much anything and everything he could think of so that he could forge me into a man who showed no fear. It’s what we do. It’s who we are.” “Well congratulations,” I muttered as I backed up, my hand closing on the door handle. Yep, I was abandoning my clothes because there was no way in hell I was staying here for another second. “Now you’re just like him.”
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Ouch
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YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF HORNY TEENAGERS.
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I simply could not adult my way through this.
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I can tell millenials wrote this
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He started laying all kinds of strange sex toys out on Orion's desk including a fake Werewolf tail, a bunch of feathers, a scaly clawed glove, and a set of fake Vampire fangs. “Fetishes are perfectly normal,” Washer purred.
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This is disgusting
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“Let’s see it then.” Oh no. No, no, no. Go away. He chewed the inside of his cheek, his eyes firmly on me and I knew he was purposefully trying to unsettle me.
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Weird Foreplay
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“Yeah, we’re motherfucking princesses and we own a goddamn palace. Maybe it’s time we went and visited it?”  “Do you really think we can?” Darcy asked, her eyes lighting with excitement for a moment at the idea. “Maybe some of our parents’ stuff is still there...”
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Whos gonna take you? Do you even know where it is
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“No! It's a surprise,” I cried in amusement as he wrapped his arms around me, trying to reach my bag. My laughter echoed off of the ceiling and I stumbled back into the counter as he tugged at the strap. “Come on! Let me see your package, Darcy,” Diego insisted, grinning in my face as he stuck his hand into my bag.
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Stop being a creep
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Fae hair dye was incredible. My hair shimmered like stars when it caught the light and was as deep blue as a twilight sky.
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Cause she lovesss him
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I jumped out of bed, pushing my feet into my sneakers and tugging on my raincoat. My legs were bare but screw it. I'm not going to think tonight, I'm just going to do. Regrets belong to tomorrow.
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Terrible idea
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I've not even been here a term and I just fucked a teacher.
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Ick
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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,”
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Damn
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He squeezed me against him so tightly that I could hardly breathe.  “Thank you,” he whispered in my ear. 
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Awwwww the poor baby
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He drew even closer to me, placing his hands on the chassis either side of where I sat and caging me in with his body. “Are you going to tell me what you want if you win?” I asked. “Something I can’t buy,” he replied, leaning a little closer. “Which I don’t think you’d give me if I just asked.”
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Girl its obviously you
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An ornate, cubic clock hung from the centre of the ceiling, the date stamped beneath it telling me we’d landed in the past. Just yesterday. A huge man marched right through us, our bodies not corporeal in this place
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Harry potter vibes
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“We can’t choose wrongly again.” “Xavier is pure blooded,” Lionel growled,
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NO
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You may work together or alone, it’s entirely up to you. And if you do make it to the platform, you will be graded by both myself, and the other professors based on your skill, how many failures you had, and how long it took for you to make it there.
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I stg if the twins dont combine their power and just bridge over imma be embarrassed
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Before I could answer, a howl hit my ears followed by a chant from the Heirs. “The Vega twins are out of luck, it’s time for you to give it up!”
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Literal children
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I could still feel the call of the blade through the material which divided it from my skin and there was something oddly comforting about having it close like that. It wasn't like I was going to use it anyway. It was just backup. Just in case.
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stupid
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“How about the beach?” Darcy panted as we ran on. “We could go to Air Cove where no one will be able to spot us, and we can wait out the chaos.” “Sounds like a plan,” I agreed. 
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Theyre going to run into lance and darius being shady
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Tory released the same noise of ecstasy beside me, and I turned to her in alarm. Panic clutched me with sharp claws as I spotted the long gash on her hand. She was still cutting herself with the blade, her eyes closed and a picture of intoxication on her face as she carved a deep line up her inner arm.
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This bitch
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He wore a dark green overcoat and a knitted red scarf which spoke of a severe lack of fashion sense.
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Diegos uncle. The whole family is shady
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looked to Darius and my heart hit top speed as I spotted Tory fucking Vega standing behind him.
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Omfg
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“You know exactly where,” she whispered. “But are you really in a position to punish us after what we’ve just seen you doing, Lance?”
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I wouldve gone with "on the ground outside the fire house" but thats just me
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“In light of what you did to her, you probably should have expected some payback,” Orion snapped. “I’m surprised all of the Heirs haven't found themselves at the end of their retaliation yet!”
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HA
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“How did it feel when you pinned her to the ground by her neck?” he breathed. “Did that make you feel good? Did you put her in her place?” I swallowed hard against a lump in my throat as shame prickled up my spine. “I wasn’t going to choke her. I didn’t even tighten my grip. I just...” “You just wanted her to think you might. Sound familiar?”
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Damnnnn. He got your ass
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“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.” A faint smile tugged at my lips and Lance leaned back on his elbows as he went on. “I also heard that she’s fucking awful in bed and Caleb is only fucking her because he feels sorry for her. Besides, everyone knows she really wishes she could fuck the Fire Heir but he’s way out of her league, so she just cries herself to sleep over it every night instead.” “Fucking Vegas,” I muttered, ...more
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Cute little bf's
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But if they do, we make sure they wish they never had.” Seth’s eyes glimmered with darkness as he took that in, and he stopped straining against my hold on him.  “We’ll take them down?” he breathed, his ache for vengeance dancing on the air between us. “Oh, we’ll do more than that,” I assured him. “The Vegas won’t know what hit them.”
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Ugh we're back to this shit
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Seth bounded out of the chair and leapt on Darius like he’d just declared his undying love for him instead of offering a consolation hug. He jumped into Darius’s arms and knocked him back onto the bed where they fell on top of Cal who got dragged into the hug too. I laughed as the mood in the room switched dramatically and amusement, happiness and friendship filled the air. I got up and dove on top of them as well, earning myself more licks from Seth as he alternated between all of us.
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Its cute but also kinda gross
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Silence fell heavily among everyone and I dragged in a long breath. “He just...killed it,” Caleb breathed, a frown gripping his features. “Now we won’t get any information from it.”
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Cause hes working with them
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focusing on Lionel Acrux. His face was fixed in a mask of anger and disappointment but as I pressed a little harder with my power, I found the truth of what he was feeling beneath the mask. Joy. Exhilaration. Relief.
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DUh
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“Blue,” Francesca decided. “My favourite colour.” He kissed her nose. Kissed her goddamn nose while saying how much he loved the colour blue. Why did that hurt so much?
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Punch him
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The path cut directly to Orion and pain branded a permanent mark on my heart. He held Francesca against the side of the stand, one hand tangled in her hair, the other locked around her waist as he kissed her.
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Oh no my heart
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“Caleb,” I began but he shot out of the car so quickly that my heart leapt in fright. “Run,” he barked, his fangs snapping out and the look in his eyes making me stumble back a step.
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Not you caleb. All over a rumor
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His lips pressed into a tight line and a dangerous energy hummed between us. “You know why I did it.”
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A man that kisses someone else for revenge is not a real man
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He stepped closer and I stumbled back a step before remembering I was ten times as strong as him. But for half a second, it didn’t feel like that, power seeming to radiate from him. “I thought you were different,” he said slowly. “But you’re just like your whore of a sister, pining after bastardos who treat you like dirt and who only give you a second look because you’d drop onto your knees for them any time they liked. Es patético.” He turned his back on me and walked away into the crowd, seeming to trample on my heart as he left. 
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Oh this motherfucker
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“Each chair is hooked up to an increasing flow of electricity. Whoever taps out first will lose the game.” Wait – what?!
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What wack ass apology is this
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“I didn’t mean to upset you,” he said, sounding lost. “I don’t apologise very often. It’s not a very Fae thing to do. Did I not do it right?”
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Hes like a puppy
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She wasn’t just a girl though. Not to me.
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You looove her
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“Wings,” he announced. “You’re gonna have wings. Darius reacts the same way when-” He didn’t finish that sentence. “You caress his shoulder blades?” I finished for him, bursting out laughing.
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Lmao
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My grip tightened in his hair, my other hand shifting on his chest, my chin tilted, and Darius inched down- “Congratulations Darius, you actually managed to do something useful for once,” Lionel Acrux’s voice smashed through our bubble of peace like a bucket of cold water. A wave of magic slammed into me, and I cried out as I was thrown back, pinned to the cliff by a power so immense that I could hardly draw breath, let alone cast any magic in return.
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Nooooo
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