Cursed Fates (Zodiac Academy, #5)

by Caroline Peckham

If the stars had chosen her for me, I’d have grabbed hold of her in a heartbeat and never let go.

My flesh was burning with desire for her, and it felt like the stars themselves had guided me here, driving me towards her to help heal her of this pain.

Everything in me had driven me at her for love, but I’d let his poison twist it into hate.

Darius was staring at me like he didn’t know whether to kill me or kiss me and as my gaze fell on his mouth, I found myself aching for the latter. Fuck the stars.

Everything about him felt so right when he was touching me, his heart beating close to mine...

“I know I don’t deserve you, Roxy. But I don’t think I can give you up even though I know that’s true,”

I should have been too angry to be turned on, but with her it always felt like this. Like we were dancing the line of love and hate with the only thing consistently present being lust.

I was a man unhinged. And the one thing I knew for certain, was that I didn’t ever want to get my right mind back.

I wanted to bend her to my will and make her praise my name like the stars themselves. I wanted her to renounce her faith in every one of them in the sky and name me as her one and only god.

I’d been fighting all my life for one thing or another, but there was nothing I’d ever wanted like the girl standing before me. And I was willing to fight for her until my dying breath.