Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4)

by Caroline Peckham

This is the moment when our souls are due to meet and connect with each other. I know you feel the same pull to me that I feel to you. You’re all I think about. All I dream about. You’re under my skin and in every thought and I know that I’ve done a thousand unforgivable things, but I swear I’ll never hurt you again. You’re meant for me. I’ll protect you with my life-” “It’s too late,” I said, my voice low and refusing the barest hint of an argument. “This isn’t the moment when our fate is decided. This isn’t the reason we will never be able to be together. The moment that decision was made was the moment you first laid eyes on me. The moment I walked into this academy with the chance to find my place in this world for the first time in my life, when I should have been able to make this place my home, but you decided to make it my hell instead. So instead of looking at me like I’m the one who is denying fate and stealing your one true chance at happiness from you, then why don’t you look at yourself? Look at every vile thing you’ve said and done to me. Remember burning my clothes off and humiliating me. Remember finding out my fears and bringing them to life. Remember how your magic felt when you used it to trap me beneath the ice in that pool and you left me in there to die.”