Cursed Fates (Zodiac Academy, #5)

by Caroline Peckham

My mouth pulled up at the corner as I recalled him getting electrocuted in the circus tent to apologise to me.

“You two are…well, fuck the law for saying you can’t be together,” Darius said, folding his arms.

He was the kind of friend who would stand up to my bullshit, bristle in response to my resting bitch face, call me out on my own crap, push me off a roof when I cheated him and have my back to the brutal, bitter end. Ride or die. In short, the best kind of friend there was.

I nodded, taking comfort in the fact that they were all blindly charging into battle with me. At least, that’s what this felt like.