Cursed Fates (Zodiac Academy, #5)

by Caroline Peckham

Asshole that he was, I couldn’t help but love him for being a teensy bit psycho.

“Fuck the stars too, Darius,” I breathed, and his muscles tightened around me as he held me close. “Fuck every shining, gleaming one of them.”

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

“Oh, blasted baguettes, take me to the mulberry bush,” she moaned, and I had no fucking idea what that meant but I liked it.

without context this looks insane, but trust when I say it’s PEAK COMEDY

Fuck, I didn’t realise I had a Prince Charming fantasy until right now.

The Heirs stood beyond them, clapping and whooping. Seth howled like crazy, and Max crowed like a rooster. Darius had the biggest smile I’d ever seen him wear and Caleb was just outright laughing as he stared at my father.

Xavier showing the world who he is

“Beautiful Xavier, now let’s see your father feeding you one of the carrots,” Portia encouraged and the Heirs’ laughter rang in my ears.

Caleb lay on the ground before me with a carrot between his teeth while Max ran a hand down my back, smearing his chest with glitter and the others soon hurried to get themselves covered in it too. Darius stood by my head, and I nuzzled into his face the moment the cameras flashed. This was going right up there with the top best moments of my life.

LMAO THIS PART HAD ME ROLLING WITH LAUGHTER

“We ban the troll from the party, make sure Tory Vega is looking shit hot, get Darius in the best mood of his life and then shove them together.

Troll = Mildred obvi

“We’ll see if he’s so tempted by you when I’m done pulverising that pretty face of yours and I cut your perky tits off for good measure!” Mildred howled. “Not the tits!” Tyler Corbin gasped from the other side of the crowd as he filmed the whole thing.

Tyler’s sense of humor >>>

You have the same opportunities everyone else in this class does, Polaris. And you can’t have any less brain cells than Jillian Minor.

“Why are you smiling like that, sir?” Shabnam Hosseini asked me, giggling with her friends. “Get out of my fucking classroom!” I barked, pointing at the door and her jaw dropped before she hurried to obey. “Has anyone else got any pointless questions they’d like to air? No? Good. Now sit the fuck down!” Ah, today is a good day.

I was a man unhinged.

Then I headed back to Blue with my heart pounding, feeling like a teenager with his first crush. I’d never had that all-consuming first love everyone talked about during my school years. I’d thought it wasn’t for me. But I guessed the stars had decided to keep me waiting a little longer. And now I had it, I was determined for this love to be my one and only. My last and everlasting.

“We can dismiss the charge of sexual biting. Miss Vega is your Source and that was a well-known fact. There are no rules in the school contract you signed or anywhere else to say that you had to bite her in a specific place. So, it doesn’t matter that you bit her breasts, inner thigh and buttocks. That will be dismissed.”

PLS 😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is one of the funniest series I’ve ever read

“I’d take death over life without you,” he breathed, his voice rough and broken by fear.

Damn hot douchebags, I always knew they’d be my downfall.

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Anyway, I’d moved on from Zane the-fucker-who-left-me-to-die-and-only-had-an-average-sized-dick-which-he-didn’t-know-how-to-use Baxter a long time ago.

In the words of Geraldine: fuck me sideways with a Dragon dildo. I don’t need any more chaos in my life.

“Nobody fucks with my girl and gets away with it,” he growled, his lips brushing my ear for a moment and making me shiver.

“Sorry,” I laughed as I looked up at him with a grin and he fell still as he helped me steady myself. “What?” I asked, trying to blink the sleep out of my eyes. “You’ve never smiled at me like that before,” he said in a rough voice, reaching out to brush some tangled strands of black hair out of my face. “Shut up, I smile at you all the time,” I replied as heat touched my cheeks and I tried to run my fingers through my knotty hair. Really should have taken a minute to brush it, dumbass. Let’s hope he assumes it’s from flying. “Not like that you don’t,” Darius countered, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth too as his gaze ran over me. “You look…cute.” “I don’t know what you mean. And I don’t do cute.” Darius snorted at me. “You look like you got dressed in the dark…” “Gee thanks, any more observations, Sherlock?” I asked, rolling my eyes at him but I was still grinning so there wasn’t much bite with my snark. “Well… You’re not wearing any makeup.” “I…woke up late, so-” “I like it,” he said, his smile growing as he looked me over. “You look all sleepy and innocent. I could almost imagine you just woke up in my bed.”

“As much as I ache for the feeling of your body against mine – and I really fucking do – I think if I was allowed a single cheat against this curse that keeps us apart, I’d just want to be able to hold you in my arms,” he replied. “Just to wake up with you there, knowing you were safe.”

CRYING ALL OVER AGAIN

“I already told you I love you, Roxy,” I growled, and her eyes widened as she looked up at me in surprise. “But now I’m telling you I want you too. Only you. No matter what it takes to make that happen.”