Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4)

by Caroline Peckham

“All the awful things I’ve done to you will haunt me forever. But please, please just give me forever to fix them.

I’d never wanted anyone like I wanted Darius Acrux, but I’d never hated anyone like I hated him either.

tory please DO NOT fuck this up

My lips parted for the promise of his kiss. He leaned closer, his lips drawing nearer, the barest of whispers parting us. “No,” I breathed.

FUCK YOU ARE YOU SERIOUS

“Please,” Darius asked again. “I’m giving you my heart. If you give me yours in return, I’ll spend every moment of our lives proving to you that I can be worthy of it.”

“Please, just be mine, Tory,” Darius begged. “I’d rather be alone,” I whispered.

literally fuck this

We wouldn’t be together. We’d be Star Crossed, destined lovers who missed their chance. But that wasn’t on me. It was on him.

NO IT IS ON YOU

I turned and ran from him, leaving him standing in the snow, looking like the sky had caved in on his head and I’d just torn his heart right out of his chest.

bc you DID

We’d never even begun and yet I felt like I’d just lost something so important that I couldn’t even breathe.

Darius Acrux had set out to break me from the first moment he’d ever laid eyes on me. And he’d finally gotten his wish.

nah this is pissing me tf off

“Please,” he rasped. “I need you to be the last thing I see.”

“Now Solaria needs you…as their Queen. Promise you’ll claim the throne. Share it with Darius, he’s not his father.”