Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4)

by Caroline Peckham

me a minute alone with him so I can see if he’ll keep letting me get a read on his emotions. Maybe it’ll be easier to figure out how to help him if I can get a clearer picture on the issue.” “Okay,” Caleb agreed reluctantly, and Seth whimpered again. “One minute,” Seth said. “Then we’re coming up to deal with this. Together.” “Alright,” I agreed. They both nodded and I headed out of the room, following Darius upstairs. He was sitting on the grey couch as I came up, still not shielding his emotions from me as he looked at something on his Atlas. Whatever it was was confusing him a hell of a lot. There was some lust, longing, anger, irritation, and a hell of a lot of pain. I stepped closer and snatched his Atlas from his hand before he could stop me. I flipped it around to look at it, expecting something from his father or maybe a newspaper article. I did not expect to see a photograph of Tory Vega in her underwear and a pair of filthy walking boots. Darius snatched it back out of my hands with a possessive growl and quickly locked his screen. “What the hell is that about?” I demanded. “Nothing,” he replied angrily. I threw up a silencing bubble so that Caleb wouldn’t hear my response. “Bullshit. I thought you said nothing was going on with you and Tory.” “It’s not,” he snapped. “She sent that to me the night of the Eclipse. I’ve got no fucking idea why and I can’t ask her because all she’s done since that night is ignore me unless I’m literally right in her face pissing her...