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He looked me up and down, eyeing the state of me with horror in his eyes. “I read the cards. Nova didn't believe me.”
Darcy's eyes locked with mine and my lungs compressed. Why was it so fucking difficult to cut her out of me? One look was enough to make me consider risking everything I’d ever worked for.
Caleb: And there was me thinking that was impossible. I’m talking about keeping the two sides of our relationship separate. Tory: We don’t have a relationship.
Clock it
“I just wanted to say um....well what you both did when the Nymphs showed up…it was really brave. And I'm not sure I would still be here if it wasn't for you two. That Gus Vulpecula guy is a filthy liar. My mum works for The Daily Solaria though, so I’ll make sure she gets the truth. The real truth.”
Don't take any shit lying down. No one's judging you if you lose, but if you don't even try to win, you're not one of us.
“Congratulations, Roxy. Looks like we’ve got a date Wednesday night then.” I ignored the flutter in my chest as he called it a date because it absolutely didn’t take place. “Maybe I’ve already got plans Wednesday,” I said. “Yeah, you do. With me.”
“Dragons.” Orion looked up. “I think you and your sister might be Dragons. Though a kind thought to be extinct.”
“I can't think straight around you,” he said heavily, his hand clawing into the earth beside my head. “I could have lost you in that battle, or I could have died without ever knowing how this might have played out…”
Lance: What if I don't want it to stop?
Since I’d made her my Omega, the thought of hurting her was unbearable. I hadn't even thought I meant it. I'd just gone to her room that day to remind of her place. But I was hardwired to protect my own.
I cut off her hair. I broke her fucking heart. I can't bear it.
It wasn't that simple to get rid of Darcy. I'd already claimed her as one of my own. That meant I had to protect her. And banishment only happened when an Alpha was challenged. If she fought me and I won, I could dismiss her from the pack. But the challenge had to come from her; I couldn't control that part. And a quiet, resilient piece of my heart didn’t want her to either. I liked the idea of being her Alpha a little too much.
“You’ll have to trust me.” “No deal.” I went to turn away from him again and he closed in on me.
“Darcy,” he snarled. “You’re not getting the message here.” “I’m getting it loud and clear. I don’t trust you, Seth Capella. Do you really think I’d be stupid enough to meet you alone after what you did to me?”
I know what it meant. Darius told me after the fall party. But I have my own (better) meaning and Solaria has one too. P.S I fully intend to break that guy’s legs once you give me his name by the way.
In Solaria blue means royal. And to me, blue means you.
Ugh why does this man have to be so cute
“Do you trust me then babe…just for tonight?” he asked hopefully. “I’ll never trust you,” I said bitterly. “But so long as I’ve got this, I know you’ll behave.”
“Good, because like I said before-” “You’d rather never fuck anyone again than fuck me. Yeah, I remember, babe. Kinda hard for a guy to forget something like that.” He arched a brow at me, and a laugh escaped my throat. That sounded even better being echoed back to me from his lips.
“Nothing sexual, babe. Jeez. I gave you my word, didn’t I?” “You’ve lied to me before,” I reminded him. “I know,” he sighed. “This isn’t like that.” “And what was that like exactly?” I asked coldly. “That was business.
Is it me or its really hard to like him
“It made me realise how much I’ve become like my parents. After I survived that week on the mountain, I vowed that if I ever had a family of my own that I’d never put them through that. But somewhere along the way, I forgot that promise I made to myself.”
“You know,” Sofia said softly behind me. “Everyone says Darius Acrux is heartless and cold blooded just like the Dragon he turns into. But you’re not, are you?”
“Now when I have that nightmare, I manage to get myself out of the car and swim for the surface,” I breathed, forcing myself to hold his eye. “But when I get there it’s frozen over and there’s no way for me to get out. I’m stuck, drowning, holding my breath while the last of my energy fades away and I know that I’ll die as soon as I take another breath...
I know full well that there are people a lot worse than Zane in this world.”
“But for Fae, fear is weakness. Our parents force us to face our fears and overcome them to make us stronger. If we can’t then it’s just proof that we aren’t good enough. We only wanted to show everyone that you weren’t strong enough to face yours... I guess we didn’t really think through all the repercussions for you though.”
I dont forgive you
I don’t need help from the monster who gave it to me in the first place.”
“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.” Darius’s face fell like I’d just punched him,
Its true tough
“Whatever. He’s shouting about us hooking up in front of the whole damn school. I’m not his girlfriend and it’s no one else’s business what we get up to.
Seeing another guy's hands on you makes me want to rip out their eyes so they never get to look at you again.
I'd probably still want you just as much. I certainly did when that fuckwit Capella took your hair.
“Give a guy a second. One minute I'm messaging you wishing I could have you right here, and the next thing...” He leaned in, kissing the corner of my mouth and I melted. Or that was what it felt like anyway. As if there wasn't a single solid organ in my body. “Here you are.”
“I'm gonna lose my mind over you,”
“Maybe. I never felt like I had a home before we came to the academy,” I admitted. And he’d done everything in his power to take that from us since we’d arrived. Everything with him always just circled back to that.
Oh please caleb is the same too. You cant cant forgive one and not the other
This girl is made for me.
“What part of 'I hate you' do you not get? You cut off my hair, Seth. And you knew what it meant to me when you did it.” For a moment I was back there at Seth’s feet, my hair clamped in his hand and my heart crumbling apart. He nodded, his jaw tightening as he lifted his head. His eyes were as sharp as knives as they landed on me. “You don't know what it's like being one of us. I mean you really have no idea. A handful of hair is nothing for the sake of my throne, Darcy. Losing it would be the end of me.” “But you didn't just take my hair, you made me believe you liked me.”
“You lied to my face. You tricked me into believing you were my friend. And maybe more than that.”
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.
“-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.”
“For a moment there I felt like I was looking at Lionel instead of a man who swore never to be like him.”
Lance didn’t even fucking flinch which only pissed me off more. “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?”
“You just wanted her to think you might. Sound familiar?” I turned away from him suddenly, not wanting to see that accusation in his eyes. I refused to admit I was anything like my father but a small voice in the back of my head was telling me he was right. Roxy had stopped fighting back by the time I put my hand around her throat.
Do you have any idea what that feels like? How would you feel if someone hurt your sister right in front of you?” He jerked away as if I’d scolded him, turning his back on me and raking a hand down his neck. My heart thumped out of tune and my mind wheeled as I wondered if that actually had happened to him once. “So you do know how it feels,”
“But more power doesn’t equal better.”
“You can’t hurt Darcy,” he said, looking like he was in pain. “She’s my Omega - fuck. I can’t do anything to her unless she challenges me as her Alpha.”
“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.
