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The one the stars had selected for me. My one true love. And after tonight there wouldn’t be a force in the universe that could ever tear us apart again.
But I didn’t need to see her. I’d known who was coming from the moment I’d looked up at the stars. Hell, if I was being honest with myself, a part of me had known this was coming from the very first moment I’d laid my eyes on her.
But he couldn’t control this. He couldn’t twist this fate. The moment we both accepted this bond between us, our destinies would be sealed and we’d be bound together forever. Elysian mates. Unbreakable. True love. I’d never taken anything for myself like this before.
“When we go into the dark, follow me, Blue. And don’t ever let go of my hand.”
My heart thundered in my ears as I picked up the draining dagger and turned to the girl I loved. “I don’t want to hurt you,” I said gently. I hated practising blood magic with her. Every training session had been torture, but she had to do it. It was the most powerful way to learn to retreat from the shadows when they coaxed her into their arms.
“I mean, like the way I lie awake at night, remembering what it felt like to hold you in my arms. How still the world felt, how pure that moment was between us. How I imagine I can still smell your perfume as my eyes fall closed and how I reach across my bed in the night wishing you were really there. Or like the way my heart beats harder when you walk into a room and my throat thickens when I try to think of the right things to say to you. How I fight to get your attention in any way I can because I can’t bear it when you ignore me.”
“Tory, please,” he choked, reaching out for me, his eyes burning with a desperate need. “You don’t get to call me that,” I snarled. “You call me Roxy, remember?
“No,” he growled. “I don’t call you Roxy because I’m trying to hurt you. I use that name so that I don’t forget who you are or what you are. You’re a Vega Princess. You could shatter everything I’ve worked for my whole life. And if I didn’t force myself to remember that fact, then I knew it would be too easy for me to forget about. Forget about challenging you and knocking you down and just…let myself imagine you could be something else. Something that I’ve wished you could be in the darkest corners of my heart for so long that I can’t deny it anymore. I want you.
And I don’t care if you’re a Vega or not. I don’t care if your name is Roxy or Tory or anything else. I just want you.”
“Fuck fate,” I snapped. “I don’t want it. If it’s bound me to you then it’s a cruel and twisted thing. I don’t need destiny to choose my life for me. I’ll make my own fate and it won’t be with you!”
My whole life, I’d never had someone choose to love me. No one had ever looked at me the way he was now and said that they picked me.
Ouch it hurts
Anyone who had the option had always let me down. Always. And as much as I wouldn’t let it show, that had broken something in me until I’d begun to believe that I just wasn’t the kind of girl people felt love for. I was too harsh and hard and jaded. No one wanted that long term.
Feel this so fucking bad
“No,” I breathed.
was falling in love with you,” Darius replied, his voice cracking. “Everything else wasn’t real. That’s not who I really am! I-”
“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.”
“If fate is so cruel as to only offer me true love with a man who could hurt me as much as you have, then I’ll go without love,” I swore. “You want my heart? I’d sooner cut it out than give it to you.”
She did the right thing here, he treats her like SHIT
“Please, just be mine, Tory,” Darius begged. “I’d rather be alone,” I whispered.
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. And even as I felt the tears spilling down my cheeks, the icy wind chilling them to my face, I didn’t relent.
He’d offered me his heart and I’d turned my back on it despite the agony I’d seen it cause him. I’d left my broken heart there with his too. And there was no power in the world that could ever fix what I’d done. 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.
SOBBING (but he deserves it)
“Stay,” he grunted, his hand closing around my wrist to keep me there. “Blue…” “No,” I stopped him, shaking my head, knowing what he was going to say. “Don’t you dare give up. I’m getting you help.” I tried to move again but he held on tighter, squeezing my arm with need. “Please,” he rasped. “I need you to be the last thing I see.”
“I know you can do it, Blue.” “Please stop,” I begged. “You’re not going to die.” “You made the last few months the happiest of my life, Darcy Vega. I’m sorry for being an asshole when we first met – biggest regret of my life.” He coughed heavily and blood slid out of his mouth, making my heart nearly collapse.
“Shh, don’t, please don’t,” I sobbed, pressing my mouth to his and tasting nothing but blood and cinnamon. “I needed you so badly, you have no idea,” he said, his voice fading as he pressed me back and searched my face like he was committing it to memory. “Now Solaria needs you…as their Queen. Promise you’ll claim the throne. Share it with Darius, he’s not his father.”
