Ruthless Fae (Zodiac Academy, #2)

by Caroline Peckham

Note to all students: Vampire bites, loss of limbs or getting lost in The Wailing Wood will not count as a valid excuse for being late to class.

We’d needed to break them. It had to be done. So why does it make me feel like a piece of shit?

AS YOU SHOULD

It was her own fault really. I’d tried to get her to leave the dance with me before anything had happened. I’d done my best.

Are you serious rn

The Vampire Code forbade me from torturing my Source, so I hadn’t had anything to do with what they’d done to Tory;

We’d been humiliated, belittled, abused, and beaten. But not broken.

Everyone knows, karma’s a bitch. And today her name was Tory Vega.

“Fae fight for their place in the world, Blue. They don't ever bow out of a fight. If the Heirs have beaten you, then you're not one of us. And you never were.”

Damn

Lance: I think you know me better as the 'bourbon drinking professor with a permanent scowl stamped on his face and a general air of failed dreams about him.' Check out the book, Blue. You'll find it educational. P.S Delete these messages immediately.

Ahhhhhhh yessssss I love this

#bitchesbecrazy

HAAHAH

hurried to a circular wooden table at the end of the row and sat down, finding the chapter for hair growth.

STOP!!! He gave her a way to have her hair grow back… im obsessed

They’re definitely fucking each other. And I definitely don’t care.

Buuuuut you do

“You have detention with me on Saturday,” Orion said in my ear, his voice a deadly purr that made my breathing quicken.

Ahhh this tension

“Iron is made stronger in the hottest part of the fire, Seth. You didn't break me, you forged me.”

THIS

“You don’t need to understand,” he replied darkly. “You’re my Heir not my equal, if I want you to do something then you will. I’m not interested in your questions on my methods.”

His dad is an ass

“You're a threat to Sethy's throne,”

Ewwww

Your Liaison has been rescheduled for 7pm tonight with Professor Orion.

Ahhhh yesssssss ive missed their tension

My horoscope had said today was going to be the start of a deep, undying love and I had the feeling it had meant my love for this academy.

Orrrrrrr with orion

And okay, maybe I'd been half a percent eager to see him.

Yessssss

“Absolutely silent,” he breathed in my ear, and I nodded against his hand.

Ahh yessssss

Tu eres un pedazo de mierda, Vampiro escoria!”

He’s not wrong! Wtf Orion

Arrogant jerk.

Not wrong

He pressed his tongue into his cheek, moving to the door and stroking the band of blue hair around his wrist. I hated him so viscerally it hurt. He was wearing my wound, brandishing it for the entire school to see. It wasn't like I could ever reattach it, but I still wanted it back.

Ughh arrogant jerk is sooo true

Will the ends still be blue?

Ohhh he definitely had a thing for her blue hair!!!!! Ahhhhh

Lance: Maybe green this time? Although 'Green' as a nickname isn't quite so catchy. The suspense is killing me.

Ahhhh I looooove this

“Oh, of course. So, a Guardian Bond is an ancient piece of magic which links two souls together. In generations past, members of my family were selected to be guardians for members of yours,” she added proudly.

Interesting… but we already knew this

“I am a crazy bitch,” I agreed, glaring down at him. “And if you try that screwed up Siren shit on me ever again, you’ll find out just how much of a bitch I can be.”

Yesssss Tory

“I have an invitation for you and your sister to come to a party at my family’s house to meet the Celestial Council,” he said.

This sounds all bad

A laugh rushed from my throat and Orion threw me a wink. “So, I'm having a little trouble, Miss Vega.”

“With what, sir?”

“Telling you apart from your sister,” he said in a low voice that I imagined only I could hear through the torrential storm he was still casting over the Heirs. “And you never did answer my question. Blue or green?”

Ahhhhh

“I want an answer by sundown,” he called after me and my grin grew even wider.

Yesssss

I bet his kisses taste like bourbon and power.

Umm yessss

“Stop looking at me like that,” he snarled, and I fought the urge to recoil from his terrifying tone.

“Like what?”

“You know what,” he snapped. “I'm y...

Ahhhhu

“Then stop looking back, Lance.”

STOOOOOOP AHHHHH

“I am. Just try not to fall in love with me though, it could make things awkward when we go back to fighting with each other tomorrow.”

Hm maybe you dont fall in love with her???

I hesitated. I didn’t really want to go anywhere with him, but I couldn’t deny the draw I felt to him either.

Orion glowered at her. “I don't control her. She can say what she damn well likes.”

“Have I told you how exceptionally beautiful you look tonight, Darcy?”

Ahhhhh

Unavailable, that's what it was. We always want what we can't have, and Professor Orion was off limits. Simple as that. And those muscles. And the beard. And the dark eyes. And the dimple. But that was it.

Forbidden love trope!!

And by normal I meant I'd be smothering the fiery pit of longing that raged inside me every time I was around her and she'd be back to thinking I was the asshole teacher who treated her just like everyone else: a piece of shit.

“I’ll tell you later when there are less nosey Vampires using their bat ears around us,” I said.

HAaha i love this

“I never said I hated you,” he murmured, his voice deep as he tugged me around to face him.

Stooooop

“The things I’ve done to you... You know it isn’t personal, right?” he asked.

Great how can i not fall for darius now

“To hate you, I’d have to care about you. And I don’t give one shit about you,” I said coldly.

This has to be a lie

He didn’t follow me, and I was glad. Because I had the horrible feeling that that might just have been a lie.

Yesssss

Too bad Darius Acrux, you really should have realised who you were dealing with before you declared war on us.

Caleb released Roxy, leaning close to whisper something in her ear which made her fucking laugh while I ground my teeth. He spared a moment to heal the bite on her neck and we turned back to the pitch.

Ahhhh are you jealous

As he banked hard, careering our way, Orion leapt from his back and fell onto the Nymph before us, slamming a shining sword into its spine.

I looove that it was darius and orion who came back