Cursed Fates (Zodiac Academy, #5)

by Caroline Peckham

“I shouldn’t have told you to come over,” she said, her breath hitching as she fought against the tears. “It was selfish, stupid. I don’t know what I was thinking, for a moment I forgot that you’re his…I’m sorry.”

I’m still sat here in shock, it’s really fucked up though

“It’s not on you, either,” he replied roughly. “The fucking stars…a Vega. Shit, who could have come up with something so fucked up? It’s like they wanted this to happen to him. I’m starting to think he’s fucking cursed. He’s had to deal with so much shit in his life and then he’s finally offered something good and pure and light and it has to be with the one person he could never offer the world to.”

Max got me feeling emotional, it’s soo true

“It’s over,” he rasped. “It’s all fucking over.”

I’m so heartbroken, this is the result of his actions but damn

didn’t she understand the weight of this kind of Star Bond? It would overcome anything, everything.

It would have helped against Lionel

Roxy.

What I want to know is why he is so adamant to call her Roxy

“I don’t want to hurt you.”

Awww

In this one instance, I may have been full of shit. We both know you won. I hope you enjoy your prize Lot J, top floor, in the parking lot.

Omg he gave her a bike, I’m crying

“It doesn’t change anything,” I muttered as I ran my thumb over the key. But if I was really being honest with myself, maybe it did. Just a little.

I need them to beat this curse

“Firstly, I’m almost nineteen,

Oh noo girl that’s embarrassing. “Almost”😬

I eyed the muscles beginning to show beneath my flesh, running my thumb across my chest and inspecting the ways I’d changed. It wasn’t just the weights that had affected my body either. This past year, I’d grown taller, my shoulders broadening, my features losing their boyish softness.

The authors letting us know Xavier is hot now

Father reached down to grab me, but I wasn’t going to bow down that easily. Not today. I’d had it with his bullshit.

Poor guy

“I’m an Order Conversion Therapist.”

Yooo is that possible? This is so sickening omg noo

but after we’d been together that night, all I could think about was Darius.

Imagine for the rest of your life, never being able to fully throw yourself into another relationship because you’re pining over another person, heartbreaking

before they get called beneath the stars. Forcing the two of you to answer to fate after a few months filled with pretty spectacular reasons for you to say no was cruel.”

Facts

“Yeah. That’s exactly what I expect.” Caleb offered me a real smile

Such a shame Caleb wasn’t her mate

Gabriel sighed like my words caused him pain and he shook his head sadly. “You both could have made different choices there. If he’d apologised, if you’d been honest…you would have been together that night. It would have changed so many things.”

My heartttt

“In the throne room, when you were with him there, he told you, as clearly as I’m telling you now that he wanted you, he said he wanted to claim you as his own, he said he wanted everything from you, that you-”

For real, how can she say all he ever did was try to destroy her when he told her at least 2-3 times how he felt, kind of

and I know how much you both care-” “Enough!” I shouted as the tears finally broke past my defences and spilled down my cheeks. “That’s enough. I don’t care whose fault it was or how many chances we had not to end up here. We are here. That’s the end of it. So fuck fate. Fuck the stars. Fuck destiny. Fuck Darius Acrux. And fuck you.”

She needed to hear this!

“You…I’m free,”

Yeah because her behaviour with the boys was not normal at all

Darius Acrux: @Margurite Helebor, I wouldn’t fuck you again if you were the last Fae in Solaria and my dick would fall off if I didn’t. Don’t talk shit about my Mate. One more word and I’ll destroy you #trymebitch

Awwwww

Paying up didn’t require a custom paint job with the Gemini constellation inlaid in diamonds over the engine,

Personalised too, I’m gonna cryyy

“Why don’t you just ask her to go see it with you?”

The bike will probably explode if that happens

Not just any girl. Mildred fucking Canopus. Darius’s second cousin and fiancé.

Nooooo, the stars are working overtime

“Don’t be an ass, Tyler.” Sofia rolled her eyes. “If we’re gonna do that again, let’s try to keep my ex out of it. No offence, Diego.”

Did her and Diego go that far that he’s considered an ex?

“It’s a Pegasus thing,” Sofia explained innocently.

Wait Diego is still orderless? Omds

I shook my head at him, trying to fight the endless grin on my face. Well dammit if I don’t miss him already.

Not me skipping over this whole scene

in a delicate blue bra with a seashell clasped at the base of her cleavage. Max’s eyes practically bugged out of his head as she directed him further into the field for a fight.

Gerry you sneaky

“We’re going to fight for our throne!” she cried.

I know this is supposed to be like a big serious moment but it’s so funny to me, feels like it just came out of nowhere

“I can’t believe this is only our first year,” I said.

I can’t believe this is only the beginning of your second semester

“You will hunt the land on my command!” Clara called.

I knew she could control them😬

“I’ve always known who you were, Roxy. The only difference is that you’ve realised it now too.

“You have to admit it looks good on me, though.” Darius gave my entire body a lingering look that dragged up from my feet to the crown on my head and my flesh scorched everywhere his eyes landed. “It looks even better on me,” he countered, raising his own hand and fashioning a beautiful crown of ice which sparkled in the morning sun as he placed it on top of his black hair.

My King and Queen

“Yeah. She sounded like a pig with a carrot stuck up its ass. I didn’t even finish.” A laugh tumbled from my lips before I could stop it and suddenly all of the other Heirs, Geraldine, Darcy, Orion and well everyone actually, were swivelling in their chairs and staring at us. “Liar,” I hissed. “Am I?” There was a smirk playing around his lips which drew my attention to his mouth

DARIUSSSSS

“Well that’s handy, seeing as we’ll never be touching each other again.” The smirk fell off of Darius’s lips and shutters slammed down behind his eyes as his expression darkened. “Thanks for the reminder, but I’m well aware.”

Tory’s always ruining ittt

but I only had eyes for Marguerite as I moved between two of the other girls and we formed a line with all of our hips locked together, winking at her as we ground our hips in a way that may have been bordering on pornographic. But if she was going to go around calling me a whore all the time, I didn’t want to disappoint.

This feels like glee

“As of this moment, you are either part of the Heirs Officially Ruling Everybody Society,

Not the HORE society

“Away away away!” Tory and I joined in between our laughter as Justin Masters produced a flute from his bag and started piping out the tune. Oh my god this is actually happening. Geraldine reached out to us and I shrugged at Tory before climbing up to join her on the table. She started the dance again and I copied her, picking it up as Tory joined her other side, laughing as Geraldine continued the song.

Omg a musical episode

“He’s never going to let you out of here is he?” I asked. “He’s never going to let the world know what you are or who you are. Is he?”

But if he tells people then his dad can’t hide it anymore right?

“Because I’m going to set you free. Come here.” I beckoned and he got up, walking towards me cautiously as I pulled my Atlas from my pocket and set it recording. “This is Xavier Acrux and he’s got something fucking amazing to show you,”

I’m scared for them omg, literally throwing him to the wolf

He was only wearing sweatpants and I got the impression he’d flown here to ambush me the moment I returned. I guess he didn’t like my FaeBook post.

Poor Darius is terrified

I had to wonder if I’d made a terrible mistake when I said no.

They’re so perfect for eachother, she had the power he needed, he has the power to pull her back from the shadows, this is soo sad

“How hard is the baby kicking?...It matters because if it kicks like a pissed off-”

Awww

Lance:

Does this guy forget she’s a student, always texting while she’s in class

I changed Lance’s name on my Atlas to Starboy

Finally, after 4 books

I also sang Starboy by The Weekend and Daft Punk

“She left a note,” Darius growled, pulling a folded piece of paper from his pocket and tossing it on the table so that we could read it.

Aww he keeps the note on him

But he was my friend, an Heir. I may have had more than the odd fantasy about him, but I never acted on it.

These two should just get together

He slapped the ticket into my palm. “I bought over three hundred thousand lottery tickets,” he said with a simple shrug like it meant nothing. “In fact, I’ve been buying that many every year since you lamented on your sixteenth birthday that you’ll never get to stick your dick in a moon crater. Figured it had to pay off eventually.”

Aww omg

“I don’t want you to hate me,” I forced out, my shoulders tensing, stealing a glance at her. She looked suspicious of course. “So…that’s what I wanted to say,” I finished weakly. Fuck, that was the worst apology ever.

He wanted to apologise? Wth

“I have a theory that with the bangles hiding both of your magic and me thrown into the mix while we hide down here, the stars won’t be able to figure out what we’re doing.”

What is happeninggg? Omg