Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4)

by Caroline Peckham

before heading on towards the pool. As far as I knew, Roxy hadn’t come here since the night Max and I had trapped her beneath the water and my gut twisted uncomfortably as the scent of chlorine awoke memories of that night in me. I stepped out onto the dark tiles which lined the pool and stilled as I spotted Roxy floating in the centre of the water with her eyes closed. Her dress was abandoned alongside her shoes at the edge of the pool, but she’d kept her silver underwear on for her swim. A huge cloud of glitter was spreading away from her body as she lazily swept her arms back and forth and I guessed she’d used magic to undo whatever had been holding the glitter in place on her skin. “Are you just going to stand there staring or are you coming in?” Roxy asked without opening her eyes. I cleared my throat, moving closer to the edge and trying not to think about what I’d done to her the last time we were here. “Or maybe you’ve come to finish what you started last time?” Roxy asked, her mind clearly following the same trail as mine. “If you’re worried about that then why did you come here?” I asked. She sighed before dropping beneath the water and swimming towards me. I watched her as a long trail of glitter was left in her wake and she slowly surfaced right in front of me, placing her arms on the edge of the pool as she looked up at me with her big, green eyes. There was something about the way that she looked at me sometimes that made me feel like she could see through ev...