Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4)

by Caroline Peckham

some answer for him when in reality, I was more fucked up than he even knew. I could see that ache in him, that need, that hunger which drove him to do all the things he did to me. And I wanted to claim it and cover it up with something else. I’d take his pain and burn it down with lust and maybe both of us would feel better. Just for a little while. I held Darius’s gaze as I slowly lowered myself to my knees in front of him. “I’ll never bow to you,” I breathed as the cold stone at the foot of the throne bit into my skin. “But if you like me on my knees then there are better things that I can do down here than kiss your feet.” Darius sat up straighter as I placed my hands on his knees and slowly pushed them up the insides of his thighs. His gaze was fixed on my movements and my heart started pounding as I watched the reaction I was causing in his flesh. This man who sat before me on a throne with a will of iron and the temper of his Dragon was fast falling prey to my movements. I may have been the one on my knees, but he was the one who was submitting. I was in control of this, of him, of the lust in his gaze and the need in his flesh. I could offer up