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“Silly, I don’t mean the man who sired me.” She giggled and I frowned as Father’s footsteps approached and he stood over me too. “Clara has that little nickname for me,” Father said mildly like that wasn’t weird as fuck.
Barf
“What’s this?” he asked, raising his hand to inspect it and I had to say I’d done a damn good job too. “I promised you a friendship bracelet,” I teased. “We can get together for a slumber party another time though.” He snorted a laugh at me as he backed up. “I’ll treasure it always. Goodnight, Tory.”
Aww i love that
But it still wasn’t enough. Because I was done with playing catch up to the Heirs. And I refused to slow down until we not only matched their skill but surpassed it.
Lowkey shouldve been doing it since day 1
I’m not afraid to thrust right into the dark nooks and crannies inside of her and really work hard at wringing all of this stress from her lithe young body. We can work through all the naughty things that big bad Dragon has done to her and go over every dirty detail, until-”
Im going to barf
“Are you sure?” Fran asked hopefully, looking at him like he was her knight in shining armour. And with the blade in his hand, I guessed he could pass. But he wasn’t her knight. He was mine.
Darcys over here going feral
“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.”
You can blame the stars all you want but everyone has free will and made their own choices
“You want me gone, so get it over with,” I demanded, my heart tearing down the centre. It hurt that he hated me. Despised me. I wished with all my heart that I didn’t care. But his hatred made me ache. Because why? What had I ever done to deserve it? “I’ve never done a thing to you except exist,” I spat, my eyes burning as I held back all the pain churning inside me.
The poor baby
My heart called to them in a way I couldn’t bear to ignore. I moved towards them instinctively and pain crashed through my skull so intensely that I screamed. “Choose your true family,” Gravebone’s voice reached me in the dark. “You’re not a Pegasus.” “I’m not a Pegasus,” I panted as the pain subsided and my thoughts muddled together, making me unsure of myself for a moment. “I’m not one of them.”
I actually want to cry
The fact that Tory had given him that little friendship bracelet – which he religiously wore every day without comment – was the cutest damn thing ever.
Stop it rn
I snatched Tory’s hand into my grip, and she ran with me as we raced towards the boulders and climbed up to the peak of the highest one. “Listen up!” I yelled and the Heirs stopped fighting, frowning over at us.
Im going to die from second hand embarrasment
One moment she’d almost seemed like herself and the next, she’d been a stranger. And a psychotic one at that. But if that single flash of her I’d seen in her eyes had been real, that meant she was in that body somewhere, drowning in the shadows, her morals crushed, her inhibitions stolen.
Orio.... You have to let go
“Right yeah, Jason, Jiles and Jax, isn’t it?” Dante asked like he genuinely didn’t know and genuinely didn’t care. “Bertie, Escobar and Hubert,” Juniper corrected.
Lmao
The princesses came with their silver blades, two beauties with their loyal maids. And so they shouted, away, away, away!” She started up a dance, stamping her foot twice to the left, then twice to the right before jumping up and clapping above her head. “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.
Wtaf is going on
“What’s my gift then?” Diego asked and the three of us sat in thoughtful silence for a moment. “Um…” Sofia tapped her lips and my brow creased as I tried to think of something,
HA. Diego sucks
“Come on, you could just save your own asses if we decided to drop you,” Caleb said. “I’ll throw you with my Vampire strength, Tory. It’ll be fun. You can control the entire landing.” “I’ll sweeten the deal for you Darcy,” Seth said, stepping closer to me. “If you get three flips in and land without stumbling, I’ll let you have a free shot at me. No shielding.”
Sounds like a trap
I’m starting to think me and Max are the only ones making an effort
Max and I*
I sipped my vodka and Redtaurus.
Hate that
And the award for the worst apology ever goes to…
That wasnt an apology. The longer they all go on taking 0 accountability the more annoying they get
“Cheerleaders sometimes support a certain player on the field,” Darius said as he pushed his hand into his pocket and took out a navy ribbon with the word Fireshield on it. “Will you cheer for me today, Roxy?”
Thats adorable stop it rn
“I’m gonna work harder.” He snatched his failed paper and strode towards the door, pausing before he left. “Thank you, sir.” I shrugged, disbanding the air shield to let him out the door. He strode away with a fucking skip in his step, and I had to check myself for a second because did I just make friends with Diego fucking Polaris?
Still dont like him
“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.”
WHAT
Nova gave me a cool look which chilled me to my core. “He’s no longer welcome in my school. And he will be lucky if he doesn’t end up in prison.” “Prison?” I echoed, horror knotting up my veins. “I know he broke the law, but he’s not a bad person-” “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.”
I actually dont want to read the series without lance in it
“No,” she hissed, flicking her fingers at me with a blast of air magic so that I stumbled off of the bed, dropping the pillow to the floor. “I don’t want you here telling me everything will be okay. If you want to fix something, then go and tell Darius how you feel. I don’t want to sit here with you moping about me and Lance while you refuse to even try and fix your own shit.” “I can’t fix it, Darcy. It’s too late!” I protested as her air magic shoved me back towards her door.
Darcys life is falling apart and shes concerned about her sisters love life?
“I love you, Roxy,” he said in a rough, dark voice which held no room for lies or falsehood, no space for tricks of cruelty. Only the truth. I could feel it just as keenly as I could feel the rush of his magic beneath my skin. A tear slipped from my eye, searing a burning trail along my cheek as it spilled from my flesh and fell between us.
I just feel like maybe its just lust mixed with the stars cause they really dont know each other well enough to be in love
I released a bitter laugh. “I know you did. Who else would do it? My sister wouldn’t have done it and Darius is Lance’s best friend. So who does that leave, huh? Just a heartless Wolf with a sad little vendetta against me which he can’t fulfil like a man. Like a Fae,” I spat, raising my hands in preparation to fight him.
Or literally anyone else who found your phone. Stop embarrassing yourself
He was the oldest brother of three and was the one I dealt with most.
Thank god it wasnt the cake fucker
“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.”
I hate that i cant escape the middle kippling
“Aside from when your middle brother starts humping a grapefruit or something and you’re linked in for the show, I guess,” I joked to lighten the tension in the room and Kipling just shrugged. “He’s been more interested in sponge cakes recently, but we are getting off topic,” Kipling deadpanned.
This haunts me
Orion gave me cunnilingus (dear fucking god) twice was a sign of his undying and selfless affection for me, that the way I kissed him, cried his name and gave him fellatio in return
Just say oral
“He had responsibilities,” I said firmly. “What responsibilities?” “He’s Darius Acrux’s Guardian, for one,” I blurted. “And for two?” She arched that damn brow again. I struggled for anything I could say in court.
"he liked being a teacher. I never would have asked him to give it up for me" how hard is that
“Your honour, I’d like to call my next witness to the stand,” Whitclaw announced and Darkice inclined his head. “Miss Kylie Major.” I froze, confused as the sound of heels clicking down the aisle behind me made me twist around in my seat.
And the crowd was...not surpirsed
“It’s with regret that I laid a hand on a princess of Solaria,” he spoke evenly, and his words brought a sharp frown to my face. “And it’s with even more regret that I admit that I used her for my own gain. I groomed her, manipulated her and ultimately, I used Dark Coercion on her to force her to be mine.”
Youre actually fucking kidding me
He let the jury see him as a monster, painting himself as one. But I didn’t understand why. I wanted to scream and fight and demand he take it back, but he’d ensured that no one would believe me. They thought I’d been Coerced to feel this way. And the idea that he could betray me so deeply made me want to vomit.
"Coercion doesnt work on Phoenix's"
My hands were trembling and my breaths coming too fast as I reminded myself over and over again that she was okay, Darius had saved her, she was going to be fine. But, fuck. I’d just thrown a Solarian princess off of a roof and damn near ripped her throat out with my teeth for good measure.
Man has an addiction. He needs some help
I didn’t know if I fell into his arms or if he surrounded me in that moment, but suddenly he was holding me against his chest, and I felt like he was the only solid thing in this storm that was keeping my feet on the ground.
You folded so fast
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.
I would genuinely love if they had their own book
“I will watch over your children and guard them until my last breath, and they will never know who I am. I swear it on all the stars.” “You will swear it on more than that,” the King snarled, grabbing Astrum’s hand and gripping his face with the other. “You’ll make a soul pact with me.” “Y-yes, sire,” Astrum agreed, his eyes wild with fear. “You will guard our children from afar with everything you have, but you will never let them discover your identity while you still draw breath.
But he didnt watch over them in the mortal world?
My heart froze into a solid lump in my chest as Lionel Acrux strode into the room and our mother fell still, her face written with shock. “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,” Lionel purred
And thr crown is..... Still not surprised
Then he stepped out of my hold, brushing past me and turning his back on me, the biggest insult you could offer another Fae. And my jaw fell slack. “Leave,” he growled. “And don’t come back. It’s over, Darcy. Move on with your life.”
I have no words
Surely getting to know each other better should have made it less weird? Instead, the weird had met Mrs Weird and had a bunch of weird babies who were currently having a party in my stomach which made the idea of consuming my coffee utterly unbearable.
Tory girl what is happening to you
“Nobody fucks with my girl and gets away with it,” he growled, his lips brushing my ear for a moment and making me shiver.
Now this is a darius i can get behind
And that I fantasised about him more than I had about any man in all my life. Even Tom Hardy. Even. Tom. Hardy.
I guess everyone has their own type
Next, there was Ethan Shadowbrook, a Werewolf and leader of the cutthroat Lunar Brotherhood gang in here.
Wtf how did he end up in there
Geraldine said there were whole tomes about the Imperial Star in there, so the sooner we could start looking for more clues, the better.
Theyre gonna pmo with this cause they obviously watched their dad hand it to that dead professor whos been leaving them cards to follow
“Lionel took Darcy.”
Are you fucking kidding me right now
The vines uncoiled suddenly, and I gazed up at the Heirs in the centre of the lounge in King’s Hollow. Seth, Caleb, and Max all waved their fingers at me which had been cast in an illusion to look like Nymph probes, laughing their asses off.
Oh god no. Deigo that motherfucking snake i cant breath
“You need to know exactly who it is you belong to,” Lionel breathed, his expression lighting hungrily. “And I have a little theory that with your Order form locked down, you’ll no longer be immune to Dragon fire. How many times do you think I will have to burn my name into your flesh before the message sinks in?”
Oh no
The shadows suddenly reared up inside me, the pull of them overwhelmingly strong as they crashed against my thoughts and made my vision blur. What’s happening?! My legs locked tight, and I slammed to the ground, my voice clamped deep down inside my chest, unable to break free to shout out to Darius.
Theyre cooked
I was up in a heartbeat, my muscles bunching with power as magic coiled in my limbs with deadly intent. “You should really stop underestimating me, Father,” I snarled, and he whipped around towards me, eyes wild in confusion as his dark magic failed to hold me.
I wouldve gone for a knife in the back but thats just me
A boy who couldn’t possibly be lying in the place of that Nymph. “Diego?”
This mf. Thats why he has no order. Omg
