Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4)

by Caroline Peckham

“Important things?” What the fuck is happening right now? “Shall we keep this little noodle blip to ourselves?” she asked as she pulled on her panties. “What the fuck is a noodle blip?”

Geraldine core

That girl was weird and kinda annoying with all her royalist bullshit, but she was funny as fuck too. I just wasn’t sure if it was intentional or not.

I ground my teeth as I stood staring at the black sports bag which hung from one of the hooks with Tory Vega sprawled across it in pink and silver sequins. Sequins!

“Fuck you,” she snarled, pointing right into Seth’s face before aiming her finger at me. “And fuck you.” She turned to point at Darius last. “And fuck you up the ass with a rusty spoon.”

This fully took me out fr 😂😂😂😂

“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.”

Don’t be with him because we were together once. For one, too brief, earth-shattering moment, you were mine. And I never should have let you go.

I followed his gaze down the table to where Geraldine was talking excitedly with some of Seth’s sisters. I caught the words getting down with the candy cane of shame and snorted a laugh to myself.

“Cut him a break,” Darius said, leaning back in his chair while his eyes glimmered with mirth. “It’s hard when the girl you like won’t give you the time of day. One minute he thought they were all on then the next she’s back to ignoring him and hating him and…” He trailed off as we all looked at him and his gaze slid over me. “And he doesn’t need us laughing at him too,” he finished slowly.

“I don’t want you on your knees. I want you fighting me and hating me and fucking me like you mean it. You’re Roxanya Vega and you weren’t built to bow to anyone,” he growled passionately. “You want me to hate you?” I asked in surprise. “I want you to feel for me. And I’ll take hate if that’s all you’re offering.”

A Vega and an Heir screwing on the throne we fought over so desperately.

His arms wrapped around me, and he drew me into a kiss unlike the others we’d shared. His tongue pushed into my mouth almost slowly and his hands slid up my spine as I gave in and it didn’t just feel like lust anymore. It felt like the sky was falling in and the earth was splitting apart and the only two things left in the world were the two of us.

“So I maybe, kinda hooked up with Darius again last night.” Do not judge my sister. Do not, do not, do not. “Are you sure you know what you’re doing?” I asked in concern. “He hurt you, Tor…” Like drowned you in a swimming pool!

Darcy was so real for this 😂😂😂😂😂😂

“And you can tell Darius if he describes a single freckle on my body, I’ll cut his balls off.” “What is it with you and cutting people’s balls off?” Orion’s brows pulled together. “Just go for the jugular, you savage.”

I wasn’t sure I’d seen her this happy in a long time. But give my sister an opportunity to thrash the Heirs with snow and that equalled one smiley Tory. Or maybe it just had to do with the triple D she’d gotten last night (Darius’s Dragon Dick).

A yelp somewhere to my left made me whip around and I spotted Darius on top of Tory, having jumped from his tree perch. My laughter rang higher as they wrestled on the ground, rubbing snow into each other’s hair and laughing like they didn’t hate each other’s guts.

There was just one, solid thing tethering me to this place, and he was staring at me like he didn’t know whether to kill me or kiss me.

“So no matter how much you hate me or despise me or wish you didn’t want me in any way at all, there’s no stopping it. You don’t feel fire like that and just let it burn out.”