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This book is dedicated to the stars. Thanks for sending us mixed messages dudes, you’re a real bunch of sparkly assholes. In light of that we asked Gabriel Nox to write you a prophesy about this book… “Paiiiiiiin, immense, unimaginable paiiiiin lies in your future if you continue reading this book. However, there is also some good which awaits, slivers of joy, laughter which will lighten your soul only to ensure it is crushed more thoroughly in the fist of fate subsequently. Both incredible happiness and intense suffering are coming to you…but if you spill enough tears, you may find the
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Looking back at this highlight.... i never expected it to be THIS MUCH PAIN.
The pain of my separation from Roxy cut me open and made me bleed with every day that passed.
someone fix it
There was nothing in that kiss, not a single piece of the girl I loved, and it felt like every part of me was breaking apart as I looked down at her in horror, wondering what the hell had happened to her to leave her so empty.
starting off with some strong pain...
“You’re Darius,” she replied, that rough edge still coating her voice. “The man who promised he’d never hurt me, even though he always enjoyed it when he did.”
“I can see what had you so captivated, Darius,” Father murmured as the next course was served and everyone was distracted. “She really is a beautiful girl. And so…tenacious. I have to say I really enjoyed breaking her in and beating that wildness out of her.”
that hurts to read…
“He has three Elements!” Mom gasped and I turned my head to look at my family. Father’s eyes were wide, a look of pride filling them that I’d never seen aimed at me in my damn life. “My son has three Elements!” he laughed, clapping his hands twice in quick succession and heat crawled into my cheeks. I still hated the asshole, but maybe I was a sucker because now he was looking at me the way I’d always wanted him to and it felt really fucking good.
you deserve it xavier!!!
“It’s like…a crush on my friend,” he said coyly, and I swear if he’d been a Wolf right now his ears would be flattened to his head all cute like. “Oh yeah?” I frowned. “Yeah… Caleb to be exact,” he said shyly,
“We won’t die,” he said with a shrug. “We’re the Heirs and the Savage Princess. Darcy and the dudebros. Wolfman, Bitey C, Fish Fury, Dragzilla, and the Phoen Dream.”
It was the taste of charred flesh on my lips and the sound of my screams filling the air. He was responsible for that. And even the idea of lingering in his company had me fearing it happening again. But I couldn’t show him that. My king had been very clear about that.
“You can fuck off now,” I said flatly, realising she wasn’t going to actually leave unless I told her to. “I can...I can...you want me to...” She gaped at me like somehow I hadn’t been clear while the tears in her eyes built up and up as she clutched her chest like she’d been mortally wounded.
But as I took a sip of the coffee Darius had left for me, the strangest stirring twisted my gut and for the first time in months, even the shadows weren’t enough to quiet the whispers in my mind. But I still couldn’t hear what they were trying to say.
“I see things,” she shrugged. “Like connections between Fae. I saw it with Dante and his wife, and I’ve seen it with others too. And as much as I loved being the filling in your dick sandwich - which I seriously did by the way, I’ll be getting myself off while thinking about this for years - I also don’t wanna be a third wheel.”
“What’s the word?” I demanded, hunting his eyes as if I could read it from them. He leaned closer again, whispering it to me in a slow and measured breath. “Ankaa.” My lips parted as I recognised that word. “That’s-” “The brightest star in the Phoenix constellation,”
I love you, son. And I know you can pass the tests that await you. Wherever I may be, know that I miss you and will be waiting for you beyond The Veil.
“We’re all at least a little fucked up, Tory,” he said roughly. “But the people who love us don’t give a shit about that. Better still – they love us even more for it.”
Having Orion’s new number was a treat in itself. I sent him daily photographs of me and Darcy together with captions like #sheaintblueoveryounomore and #teamDeth. He’d blocked my number after threatening to rip my intestines out and strangle me with them – among other murderous threats - but then I got a magical app which sent my texts from anonymous numbers so he couldn’t keep me away. It was hilarious. And very intentional. Because I was officially kickstarting Mission: Get Darion Back Together.
“You’d love being dominated by me, Roxy,” he promised. “I’d pin you down and make you scream so good you’d forget all about trying to stop me as I marked you as mine so thoroughly that you’d never doubt that it was true ever again.”
“Handsome, enamouring, lovely, powerful. And sometimes she’d add unbelievable and sexy too.” “So...” “The first letter of each of those words spells out the message she was trying to give me. ‘Help us.’”
You’ve found the final card. The stars have aligned, my duty is done. When all hope fails, Vega Princesses, find courage in the light.
“Exactly,” Nox said, his eyes glittering mischievously. “And as faculty I am absolutely not allowed to be involved. So of course, I have involved myself up to the neck and am working hard to see who may make suitable recruits.”
“It’s you, dumbass,” Roxy snapped, shoving me again and making me growl even louder. Why the fuck did she think it was a good idea to bait the beast in me when I was ready to- “It’s only you. Even though it can’t be, it fucking is.”
A lump formed in my throat as my gaze tracked the lines of ink on her flesh. I knew the design because it mirrored the one Gabriel had told me to place on my own skin. The lines which dictated the position of the heavens on the night she’d told me no. The night when everything could have been so different if I’d only followed what my heart wanted sooner. The words which ran down her thigh to the left of the design in delicate script were a mirror of those on my own skin. There is only him.
I knew Geraldine’s political stance was holding her back from giving herself to Max, but I wished it didn’t have to. They were polar opposites but somehow, they found a balance between them that just worked.
“I love you, Blue. I loved you then, I love you now, I’ll love you tomorrow even if I’m no longer on this earth. No time exists where I won’t love you.”
“The life of a Fae means little to the stars. Fate changes, destiny isn’t always set in stone. The gift on offer isn’t life. It’s freedom. A chance. A possibility to change the stars again.”
this gives me so much hope...
“One year,” the voice breathed. “To love her like you ache to. To be the best of yourself. One year and no more.”
a small and simple chance given?
“All bonds?” I clarified as the visions of her dying pressed in on me again, warning me that time was running out for her, that I had to make this choice fast. “A fresh start,” the voice confirmed. “Every bond placed upon the two of you by the stars wiped away.” “But all I get is a year?” My heart was thrashing desperately now, adrenaline begging me to do something to save myself, but this wasn’t an enemy I could fight. It was destiny in the making. “A year to live the life you yearn for. A year to find out if you really are the man you wish to be.”
one year together... one chance to be loved only 365 days? i dont know...
“I accept your terms,” I growled in a deep voice that echoed with finality. “And I offer my life in payment.”
DARIUS NO
