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“So did you get any information from Polaris during your date?”
“You’re never going to let that go, are you?” I mocked. “It just fucks me off that you can go out in public with him and not me.”
And I didn’t exactly deny that I have a thing for you, if you go after him, he might figure out there’s something between us.” “What kind of thing do you have for me?” He shot me a mischievous glance. “It will sound crazy,” I said slowly. “I like crazy. Did you not get the memo when I tried to cook myself earlier?”
“When we were in the battle and you were about to die, I felt compelled to save you. Like…if I didn’t a part of me would die too. And ever since then, that part of me is getting stronger like it’s become this tangible thing that lives in me. I’ve never been a jealous person before but when I see you with Francesca it’s like I turn into an animal with nothing but basic instincts.”
“I told you it was crazy.”
“Good, because I feel it too.”
“I took her up there and did what I said but-” “But then she started sucking your dick, right?” Seth asked with a smirk. Darius growled at him, and I laughed.
“Are you sure you know what you’re getting into with her?” Max asked, shifting closer to me. “That’s not just lust you’re feeling anymore.” Darius growled again and Max shifted his attention to him, his eyebrows drawing together sharply.
Darius looked like he was fighting hard not to add anything on the subject, and I decided against baiting him on it. If he’d wanted a shot at Tory, then I wasn’t what was standing in his way; he was the one who had made her hate him like she did.
I swore at him as I shot forward to stop that Siren asshole from touching her, but Darius had made it there first. “Back off,” he snarled at the kissing booth douchebag and the Siren instantly did as he was told, shifting away from Tory like she was contagious. Darius caught Tory’s arm and tugged her away from the stand while she tried to claw his fingers off of her. He moved her to stand before him and she shoved his hand off of her aggressively.
I glanced over my shoulder and found Darius scowling at us - no surprises there
“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.”
“Forget it. Eres una puta como tu hermana.” He turned and started walking away but I flicked my fingers at him, making the earth tremble beneath his feet so that he almost fell.
“I’m pretty sure you just called my date a whore,” I growled.
“I’ll do whatever makes you happy,” I replied, throwing my arm over her shoulders as I led her towards the next ride. And the strangest thing was, I was pretty sure that was the truth.
Lance: I’ll make it worth your while if you pass The Reckoning today. #motivation #seemeafterclass
Lance: I can’t believe you’re not in my bed right now. #missyourpeach
Darcy: I also can’t believe you just admitted you want me to pass The Reckoning. Lance: It’s complicated.
“Gemini of air, fire, water, earth, daughter of a king, twin soul and Fae born of ash and fire...it’s time to face The Reckoning.”
“Gemini,” the whispers filled my head again. “The wood burns hottest at the heart of the fire. The more hardship you face, the stronger you become.”
“Adversaries surround you, Gemini. But do you know which ones are your true enemies?”
“Darkness breeds darkness,” the stars whispered while I continued to gaze at him, a thick shadow clinging to his form. “What does a Fae do when their back is against the wall, Gemini?”
“They fight,”
“And what does a Fae do with their heart?” I swallowed as Orion moved forward, reaching toward me almost lovingly, but then a dagger appeared in his hand. The same one he’d had in the cave the other day. He took my arm, holding it above my wrist and I winced, trying to pull free of him. “They guard it,”
“And what will a Fae do to claim their rightful place in Solaria?”
“Anything.”
A glittering number twenty shone above my head and I blinked heavily as I shook off the oppressive feel of the darkness which had claimed me. I turned to Tory beside me, her eyes wide as she gazed up at the blazing number twenty above her head too. All around us, more and more numbers appeared above the students circling the field, but none as high as ours.
Tonight is the LUNAR ECLIPSE. All Fae will be struck by the urges of the moon and will be guided by their most base instincts and the truest desires of their hearts and flesh. As such, the faculty have made the following recommendations: 1. Remain alone in your rooms throughout the evening with the door locked. 2. Turn off your Atlases to avoid the temptation to send provocative messages to your fellow students via social media. 3. Take a sleeping draft or two to try and bypass the night without succumbing to the urges. 4. Make sure you have cast your monthly contraceptive spells so that
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I opened the door and my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth as I found Darius leaning on the doorframe. His gaze slid over my dress slowly and heat crawled along my skin everywhere he looked.
“I think I preferred the other option,” he said, moving a little closer to me.
Darius laughed and the sound rolled right down my spine and into my soul. “Roxy’s not a nice girl,” he said, his gaze fixed on mine, his pupils larger than normal in his endlessly dark eyes. “No matter how pretty she looks in that dress.”
“How did he make ‘pretty’ sound dirty?” I asked, my voice rough. “He didn’t, Tor,” Darcy said with a sigh as I moved back inside to grab my things. “That was all in your head.” “Was it, though?” I asked, smirking at her. “Sadly...no, it wasn’t.”
I had no real intention of going anywhere near Darius Acrux tonight. Probably. Maybe. Sixty-three percent. Dammit.
My fingers flexed with the desire to pull my Atlas out again. I could settle on some kind of reply to send her at least. One which didn’t involve me showing up at her door like I expected...what exactly? For her to have suddenly forgotten she hates me? Or maybe to ask her who the moon was pushing her towards tonight. Because I’d known before the sun rose this morning exactly where it would be pushing me. I just couldn’t tell if she’d fall under its spell for me too.
An Eclipse always brought people’s desires to the forefront of their minds, and I tended to have more than a few girls circling around me at all times. They always took a shot at me once the moon rose. And I’d said yes to more than a few of them in the past. Not tonight though. I only had my eyes set on one girl tonight and the joke of it all was that I knew she wouldn’t be looking back. Or at least I had known that until she’d sent me that photo.
Roxy Vega had just walked into the room. She looked...I didn’t even know what to make of her dressed up like a freaking prom queen, but I liked it. I wanted to pull the flowers out of her hair and get her white dress filthy in the mud. Her gaze found mine and she bit her bottom lip in a way that made me hard just looking at her.
I watched as they passed, caught between approaching her and not. The moon wasn’t fully up yet so I still had some control. Not a whole hell of a lot, but some. Not that I ever seemed to have much around her in the first place.
I needed to see Lance. I couldn’t get distracted by a girl. Even the girl.
If I got near that girl when the moon was up, then there would be no stopping me. I’d be begging on my knees for a moment of her time, and she’d probably be laughing in my fucking face. I should have asked her why she sent it. Fuck.
“Enjoying the view?”
“I’m scarred for life here,” I groaned in disgust. “Well, I got a fucking invitation to that little slice of hell so how do you think I feel?” Lance joked as he moved to embrace me.
We hadn’t had much time alone together this week and it always made the bond a little stronger when we were reunited. The sign for Libra on my skin had been itching all day, begging me to find him.
I wrapped my arms around him tightly, releasing a breath as I leaned my head on his shoulder and just stood there holding him for a few moments. We were beyond the point where we questioned the way this fucking thing made us feel about each other after all these years and I wa...
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“For fuck’s sake, Lance,” I muttered, straining against him. “If you bite me on the Eclipse, you’ll probably start trying to suck my dick right after it.”
“You’re probably right,” he agreed. “And I’d be so fucking good at it that you’d fall in love with me before the morning.”
“If a girl sends you a photo of her in her underwear, she wants to fuck you, right?” I asked, frowning at myself for even asking this question but it just didn’t seem that simple somehow. “Generally I’d say that’s a pretty clear indicator,” he joked. “Even when that girl hates you about as much as is humanly possible?”
this girl happen to be seeing one of your friends?” he asked slowly. I clicked my tongue dismissively. “Caleb has a different girl every other week. She’s not his girlfriend and he’s shared a girl with Seth before so...” “So, you don’t think he’d care?”
“Just go,” Lance snapped eventually. “Tell her how you feel. Lay it the fuck out and find out if she feels it too. You won’t get rid of that need by sitting beside me dry humping the grass.”
“You think she’ll even listen?”
“I think you have to find out. We’ve been together for an hour now and you’ve spent fifty-nine of those minutes talking about her. I can’t bear it anymore. Leave this old man to sit on the cliff and go get your girl.” I got to my feet, shrugging like I didn’t much care either way but...
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