Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4)

by Caroline Peckham

99 Problems by Jay Z

“Blue.” I smiled dreamily, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear. She is so…everything. Does she know how everything she is?

“I think the stars picked you for me, Blue. I think you’re my Elysian Mate.”

“So I won’t let you ignore me, Roxy,” he snarled. “I’ll have your attention even if I have to take it without your permission.” “Why?” I demanded. “Why not just go after someone else?” “Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine.”

I’d never hungered for someone like I did for her.

Darius Acrux was probably the most pig headed, arrogant, infuriating man I’d ever met. But he was fucking mind blowing in the sack.

“The next time you want to drown in them, tell me about it.”

“Why?” “Because if you’re going to drown then I’m going to drown with you.”

“Because you’re in my head all the time. You pulse through my blood with each beat of my heart. I live for every scrap of attention you offer me and suffer through every moment you spend ignoring me,” he said darkly, holding my eye the entire time.