Cursed Fates (Zodiac Academy, #5)

by Caroline Peckham

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.

Lance is the fucking cutest

A bed of black silk lay within it and I shifted it gently aside, my breath hitching as I laid eyes on the most beautiful sword I’d ever seen.

How big was this box that she carried in her backpack what

I knew what I had. And I’d protect her until my dying breath. And even then, I’d still fight to keep her safe beyond the veil. Whatever it took. Always.

So now hes stressing me out for the book beyond the veil...

“Professor Lance Orion, you are hereby detained by the Court of Solaria for fraternising with a student who is none other than a Princess of Solaria.”

Shut the fuck up right now

Orion glanced over his shoulder, his face drained of colour and his eyes full of a desperate kind of fear. “Stop, Blue,” he whispered firmly, just for me.

Im gonna cry

“The Court of Solaria will decide exactly what kind of person he is, Miss Vega,” Nova said with her upper lip peeling back. “Lance Orion has been a good colleague, a spectacular teacher, but he has chosen to scorn his prestigious job in favour of fucking a student. I do not have any pity for that.”

It couldnt have been seth to rat them out. Thats too obvious. Im thinking diego, the fucking snake

Everything has been against us from the beginning. But there was never anything stopping you and Darius from being together apart from the two of you. If either of you had just pulled your heads out of your own asses and been honest with each other, then none of this would have happened to you! And that kills me.

Thank you darcy for finally calling tory out. Sorry it took lance getting arrested for it to come up. Still pissed about that for you

“I shouldn’t have said it meant nothing to me after we were together in the Shimmering Springs,” I breathed, my voice so low I wasn’t sure he’d catch it, but the way his eyes flared with heat said he had.

Yea you shouldnt have

“I should have realised that you were meant for me sooner,” Darius said in a rough voice that betrayed just how much this distance between us hurt him.

Yea you should have

I bared my teeth, stepping in her direction and she backed up into her friends with a look of fright in her eyes. Whatever I looked like right now, it must have been enough to strike fear in her heart. But she wasn’t who I’d come here for.

Darcy for the love of god, kick kylies ass PLEASE

Kipling

Not a kipling cameo. These mfs weird i wonder which one he is

He was the oldest brother of three and was the one I dealt with most.

Oh thank god not the cake one

“How’s Blue?” he asked in return. “Fucking furious,” I replied. “She beat the shit out of Seth in front of the whole school. He’s been howling all fucking night and day since.” A merciless laugh escaped him. “That’s my girl.”

Fuck yea

“If it appeases you, you may wish to know that my brothers and I have very specific tastes sexually and neither you nor Miss Vega fulfil them, so I can assure you the work was in no way gratifying. I prefer men in their fifties or older with considerably more body hair than you. My middle brother only enjoys sex with inanimate objects and my youngest brother likes Medusa women in shifted form.”

Weird mfs, i cant believe they come back

So, it doesn’t matter that you bit her breasts, inner thigh and buttocks. That will be dismissed.” Lance shot me a look and cleared his throat. “Okay. What else?” “We have, four counts of full coitus, two counts of cunnilingus, one count of fellatio. A single spank which I think we can dismiss as an accidental fall-” “Fuck me, Lance you couldn’t have just had a quickie, could you?”

SHUT UP

“Four hundred and three kisses-” “You counted the kisses?” Lance blanched. “One hundred and sixteen pecks to the lips. Eighty-four kisses to the lips with tongue. Thirty-seven to her left breast, forty five to the right, eight to-” “By the stars, is that really necessary?” Lance growled.

This is funny as fuck

“You want me to fight against the will of the stars for her?”

So fucking glad caleb just had this talk with him. Darius, please get her back. Idc how just do it

Six years. I’d be thirty-two. Blue would have long since graduated. She would have moved on from me. From us. She’d probably resent me after a while. Her biggest mistake. This could fuck with everything she’d worked so hard for. I’d just be the dark smudge on her history. The name everyone brought up every time she did a press conference, the discrepancy that would never go away. I’d hang around her throat like a fucking anchor until the end of time.

This is heartbreaking that he thinks this

“Your honour, I’d like to call my next witness to the stand,” Whitclaw announced and Darkice inclined his head. “Miss Kylie Major.”

UGH FUCK THIS BITCH

“Yes,” Kylie agreed, nodding. “I found Darcy’s Atlas in The Orb at dinner. She must have left it there.” No way. She’d stolen it. And this whole mess was her fault. She’d given them the evidence. Not Seth.

Darcy, kick her ass please. Literally waterboard her, do SOMETHING I cannot stand Kylie

This can’t be happening. Please tell me this isn’t happening. He wouldn’t do this to me. To himself. Orion’s gaze was fixed on the wall, his jaw set in stone, his eyes infinitely dark.

LANCE WHY

His betrayal sliced deeper than a knife. He hadn’t fought for us. He’d dived headfirst into the pits of hell without me. And for what? I felt a cracking in my soul that spoke of the promise we’d made on the stars together. To always fight to be together. He’d broken it. And he’d broken me in the process.

I actually can’t believe this. NOW on top of the 25 years in Darkmore, he also has 7 years bad luck for breaking a star vow. Now what. FUCKING NOW WHAT LANCE

“So, hunt me,” I suggested, cutting him off. “We used to do it all the time and you just tried to bite my head off anyway, so you clearly want to. Plus, aren’t I supposed to be your Source still? Seems like you’ve only got a taste for Wolf these days.”

No no, we’re past this.

He snatched my hand into his grip and his fangs crashed against the ice as he tried to break through it with pure force. I gasped as I struggled beneath him and the hard plain of his body pinned me down, but without his magic he was at a serious disadvantage and there was no fucking way I wanted him biting me while he was frantic like this. With a grunt of effort, I managed to slam my palm into his chest, loaded with air magic that threw him away from me. I scrambled upright as he shot back towards me, opening a chasm at his feet to trap him and keep him away. The wild look in his eyes made my pulse race and for a moment it didn’t even seem like I was looking at the Caleb I knew.

Almost like Lance warned you that this exact thing would happen if yall kept doing this shit. Weird isn’t it.

They were screaming and laughing as they played, but my gaze caught on Darcy who was sat on the beach watching them with glazed eyes.

That makes me so fucking sad

“Are you all so afraid of us, you’ve gotta use guns?” Seth taunted, grinning around at the gang like a psychopath. If they started shooting, we could shield easily enough but it would be a lot harder to avoid them noticing that kind of magic.

Who cares if they notice if yall just disappear after

And not just any prison, a maximum-security prison for the worst Fae imaginable. Darkmore Penitentiary.

How tf does he get out of there. He fucking better or im gonna riot

So, I took out my Atlas and Faegled my name,

This sounds like a slur

There are rumours that the Mental Health Institute for Fae have tried to call her in for assessment. But Miss Vega pointed them towards her P.A. for comment who, unfortunately for their efforts, turned out to be a raven.

It never fucking ends, kill this Gus mf asap

I’d talked it over with Tory a hundred times already and we’d decided it was time to let everyone know that Phoenixes couldn’t be Dark Coerced.

This thought literally just crossed my mind a page ago, do people not know this?

Diego

I blamed him for this and called him a snake. I dont blame him anymore obviously, but i still do not trust him at all.

Darius: I’ve got them in storage. Don’t worry, I wouldn’t let any fucker touch his stuff. If there’s anything you want to hang onto let me know.

Im gonna cry i love darius

P.S. Glad to see you back. Don’t break alone. I know you have your sister, but I’m always here if you need to talk about him.

DARIUS TWICE ON ONE PAGE YOU GOT ME TEARING UP

“Honey Highspell?

This new professor is giving succubus or incubus, whatever they call them in this world. Should be succubus but i think they say incubus i remember someone saying that at some point

Highspell

Cool so shes a fucking cunt

Highspell

I change my mind, shes giving basalisk. Which sucks cuz thats a dope order and shes a bitch

Tory moved to walk beside me, wordless as she realised where I was headed and suddenly Darius, Caleb and Max materialised too like they were drawn magnetically to Seth’s side.

Love a united front

“No, it makes you nothing,” I growled. “Just a worthless, waste of oxygen who I now no longer acknowledge as existing.”

Period glad darcy finally grew enough balls to say this to this bitch

Seth stepped closer with a growl. “I am an Heir to the Solarian throne. You haven’t got enough power in your veins to fuel a bus. How could you ever think we would be mated? You’re just a low born, low mannered, low class snake.”

You know what? hell yea seth i appreciate that

I thought of all the times she’d cursed me, laughed at me, of the time she’d spat on me.

Oh i totally forgot the spit. Gouge her fucking eyes out

But we’d also found a box filled with love letters he’d written to our mother hidden in their things and the tender way he spoke of her and even of his joy over her pregnancy made my heart ache.

I will forever be a sucker for this type of trope

We watched as she introduced a four-year-old Gabriel to the Savage King and the man who had made our entire kingdom tremble in fear smiled with all the warmth of the sun. He took him in without question, played with him, taught him to ride a horse and took him flying in the sky on his back when he shifted into his Hydra form.

Stop that’s actually so cute

“You,” she gasped as she stared at him in utter horror, and I could tell that her visions hadn’t shown her this. “I thought you were our friend, I thought-” “That’s where you went wrong, my Queen,”

They better do something about this.

“I was alone in the world for so long that I gave up on ever uncovering the mysteries of my past,” he breathed. “I found happiness in creating my own family…but now… I remember. The visions broke the block on my memories, and I remember my mother, your father… I remember holding the two of you on the day you were born and promising to love and protect you until the day I died.”

God damnit I can’t cry, I’m at work

He crowded me in against the wall, making my breath hitch at how little space parted us. He didn’t smell like cinnamon anymore, he smelled like soap and misery. “It’s a command. And one you’re going to follow. Get out of here and forget this place. Forget me. It’s over. Done. So, move on.”

You stop that right fucking now.

“I don’t know how to deal with you when you’re not being an asshole,” I admitted. “Don’t worry about that, Roxy. I’m still an asshole,” he assured me.

Hehe

Professor Highspell

I accidentally looked up her order and I’m disappointed in what it is.

I pushed myself upright and we looked across the distance separating us as the rain pelted us again and a huge crash of thunder sounded in warning.

Everyone on campus would know they’re together based on the storm. Real talk, I’d be pissed if I was trying to enjoy my morning and it started pouring rain out of no where

Darkmore

They have introduced every damn character from the darkmore series in this book. Just listed every character but rosa, who was also brought up not too long ago

Ethan Shadowbrook

Loved him, i hope i still do