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“It’s not as happy as my last,” he murmured then Caleb arrived with Tory, setting her down beside me, leaving me trapped in a happy memory of the past and wishing I could go back to it.
“Wherever these go, I go,” I said with a challenge in my voice. If he thought he was going to ditch me at any point tonight for my own safety or some bullshit, it wasn’t gonna happen. I was going to personally make sure that star was brought back here no matter what. “Dammit,” he muttered, and I grinned triumphantly. I knew it. Tory laughed. “You can’t get one over on her anymore, asshole.”
“No one look them in the eyes, they’ll rip the soul right out of your body if you do.” “They’ll do fucking what?” Max balked.
“We’re almost there,” Orion muttered. “You’d better not be opening your eyes,” I hissed, and his fingers squeezed mine. “Someone’s got to look, might as well be the Power Shamed nobody,” he said under his breath and my nails dug into his flesh. “You’re not nobody,” I growled seriously. You’re one of the most important somebodies I know.
“Have you got something you wanna say to me, asshole?” Seth growled, stepping toward him with his shoulders squared. “Because your attitude is bullshit.” “I have nothing to say to you,” Orion hissed. “Oh yeah?” Seth growled. “Well apparently the only pussy around here is you then.” “What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” Orion’s fangs snapped out and I stepped between them with a growl of my own. “Stop it,” I snapped. “We have to move.”
Seth’s eyes slid to mine, and he backed down with an innocent shrug. Orion looked between us with a grimace I didn’t understand but said nothing more.
“What the fuck?” Tory’s nose wrinkled and the two of us moved closer together, readying to blast them all back to hell.
“Go!” Darius commanded and Orion looked to me, a decision in his eyes. “Wai-” I started but he shot forward, throwing me over his shoulder and tearing away deeper into the graveyard, leaving the others behind.
I was about to cast air to push at my back when he threw out a hand at lightning speed to catch me. He yanked me back against his chest and I tilted my chin up with a scowl. “Stop it,” I snapped. “I’m never not going to catch you,” he growled,
“It’s bound with blood magic. But it doesn’t just want my blood…” His fingers moved across the stone, brushing the rings. “It wants a Vega’s too.” “Do you think my mother saw this? Us standing here together?” I asked in shock.
cut my palm open, and Orion’s fangs snapped out as he watched, a low groan leaving him. I arched a brow at him then placed my hand on the door beside his, my breaths coming quicker in anticipation.
A corpse lay inside which was nothing but bones and Orion moved to look down at his father with an ache in his eyes that hurt me. “Hey, Dad,” he murmured. “I’m sorry,” I said gently, moving closer to look down into the coffin. “Don’t be,” he sighed. “He died a long time ago.” “That doesn’t mean it’s not sad anymore,” I said with a frown, moving to his side and brushing my fingers against his arm. He glanced at me, and our eyes met, the air thickening between us.
“I never stopped fighting for you, Blue,” he growled, boxing me in against the wall and my heart clenched at the use of that name.
“Wrong,” he snapped in his damn professor tone, and I held my breath, wondering if he was actually going to give me an explanation at last. “Everything I did was for you. And I would do it again and again, because despite how much this fucking kills me, you’re still on the right path to become a queen of Solaria. And if I’d done anything different, you would have lost your place at Zodiac Academy, your name would be ruined by your relationship to me. I was going to prison either way, and I saw one way that wouldn’t drag you down with me. So, I took it. And if that makes me an asshole then I
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Tears blurred my vision, but I blinked them back as anger welled up in me. “You had no right to make that choice for me.” “I know,” he said in a grim tone. “I didn’t take pleasure in it. But I’d still make it every time.”
be honest, you being with anyone else would have broken me, but did you really have to choose the one guy who tried to rip us apart?” I reached up to brush my fingers across his cheek, hating the raw pain I saw in his eyes.
Do you really think that little of me, Lance Orion?” His brow creased, his eyes scouring my face, pausing on my mouth. “No…I think the world of you, Darcy Vega.”
“Lance, stop!” I screamed as he lunged through it and I extinguished the flames fast so I didn’t kill him. The only thing worse than ending up dead myself, was him dying instead.
to stop this spell he was under; he was going to find me. And I was surely going to fall prey to his fangs, because I’d rather die than kill the man I loved.
“Is it you?” I demanded, looking into his dark eyes and grabbing his face between my hands as I held him still, searching for the man the stars had chosen for my mate. “Are you still you?” “It’s me, Roxy,” he said roughly, his hands moving to grasp my waist as he looked at me like I was the answer to every question he’d ever asked of the world.
“You fucking idiot,” I snapped, punching him in the chest as I realised he was okay. “Why the fuck were your eyes open?” “Because I wasn’t going to risk them getting past me to you,” he snarled like that was the most obvious thing in the world and I punched him again. “And what would I do without you?” I demanded, making his eyes widen with surprise before I even realised what I’d said, but fuck it.
I’d burn for her; I knew that in the remnants of my sanity. I’d stand in the flames of hell and die for this girl’s blood,
She was the sweetest thing. Honey and sugar and all things good. She reminded me of a fairground, a school, a secret.
I saw memories scrolling through my mind of this girl. Her standing before me for the first time, her hair dipped in blue, her eyes wide and curious. Then her sitting in my class, me stealing looks at her I had no right to steal. The taste of her lips against mine for the first time, hidden at the bottom of a pool, then the way she’d looked dripping wet outside my front door with a single word on her lips. A word that meant everything to me. Because it meant her. My girl. My queen. “Blue,” I groaned, releasing her chin so she turned her head to look at me with fear in her deep green eyes.
“What the hell?” she demanded, panting as she tried to shove me back. The spell finally let go of me fully, the power in the air dissolving, freeing me, returning my mind to me. And clarity was a bitch. “Shit.” I kneeled back, pulling her up to sit and anxiously checking her over for injuries, snarling at the bruises I found. “Did I hurt you?” I asked in a panic, a weight crushing my chest at what I’d just done. She gaped at me then shook her head. “Are you…you again?” “Yeah,” I growled. “I’m so fucking sorry.”
But nothing in this world could make me turn away from Darcy right then.
“You’re hurt,” she said in a choked voice, brushing her hands close to the burns on my arms.
“You’ve passed the test. A new Master of the Zodiac Guild is born,” an ethereal voice filled my head and Darcy stiffened as she heard it too. “Protector of the royal line, safe keeper of the heart.”
The stars have aligned, my duty is done. When all hope fails, Vega Princesses, find courage in the light.
“The rings,” Darcy said urgently, trying to fight her way out of my arms, but I wasn’t letting her go, not for fucking anything.
I climbed on and a hand found mine which I knew was Blue’s by touch alone.
Warm magic swept out from Darcy’s hand and the burns on my body healed over. I immediately pushed my own magic back into her veins, healing any bruise or mark I’d left on her in the tomb.
“By the stars,” I swore, pulling Darcy against me as Geraldine nearly clawed my nipples off.
Everyone crowded closer to see and pride swelled in my chest.
Geraldine threw herself at me next, taking me even more by surprise. “Oh, you loyal Master of the Guild, you’re a true royalist, you have always done what is right for my queens. I see that now,” she sobbed, earning me harsh glares from the Heirs. Ah shit. I patted her shoulder awkwardly, but she clung on tight as I tried to press her back, releasing a mournful sob. “Can’t you fix things with my lady Darcy?” she whisper-shouted completely unsubtly. By the fucking stars.
Awww
“You and me need to talk,” I growled as he yanked himself free of my grip and folded his arms. “What about? Me following Darcy back to Aer Tower and fucking her blind?” he asked casually, and my fist snapped out, clocking him in the jaw
“Jealous, asshole?” he taunted, and I shoved him back a step with the force of my Order, making him nearly fall over before he caught himself at the last second with a gust of air.
“Right, I’m off to fuck your girl. Oh sorry, I meant my girl.”
And I had the best poker face of anyone I knew. Except maybe Tory - that girl was a pro at bullshitting people.
Darcy was my other half so just her being with me was all I needed,
Or the way there was a perfectly brewed coffee with my name on it waiting for me every damn morning without fail, even if he slept at the palace with Orion. He’d even bought me my own mug – not that he had given it to me to unwrap or anything like a normal person. My coffee had just started appearing in it every morning without him saying a word. It was baby pink with a golden R printed on it, a crown casually hanging from the top corner of the letter and a pair of wings spread wide around it. Not
In fact, he was so in tune with my caffeine needs that I hadn’t actually made myself a coffee once in all the time I’d spent here.
I took a step towards Darcy, but Darius caught my arm and tugged me down on the couch instead, placing me carefully in between his legs as he hung one over the arm and spread them as wide as possible in that my-dick-is-too-big-to-function way of his. It meant we weren’t actually touching but I was practically in his lap at the same time. He slung an arm over the back of the couch and took a sip of his coffee, maintaining eye contact with me as I looked over my shoulder at him and he raised an eyebrow as if daring me to make a fuss. I decided against that and turned to look at the others
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“Let’s see it then,” I said as Darcy raised her eyebrows at me, twinunicating the fact that she wanted to discuss the Darius situation with me asap while I arched an eyebrow, letting her know I expected all the details about her and Orion in that tomb.
“It’s the last one,” Darcy said, and I smiled, tracing my fingers over the lettering. We’d done what he’d wanted, and I guessed if these Guild people had wanted us to be able to find the Imperial Star, then maybe it made sense for them to use this frustratingly annoying way to show us where it was. But still. We had it at last. So maybe the old guy had been onto something when he’d left a trail of magical Tarot cards after his demise. Totally batshit, but pretty helpful in the long run. Darcy gazed at the star
“Oh my, I’ll never know why I didn’t suspect your royal blood before the truth was revealed, dear Gabriel,” Geraldine said, fanning her face with her hand. “The cut of your physique is clearly that of a true, blue-blooded specimen. The broadness of your chest alone-” “Put a shirt on dude, you look cold,” Max snapped, using air magic to whip a shirt out of the chest at the side of the room and tossing it into Gabriel’s face. Darius ran his thumb down my shoulder blade again, but I shrugged him off, frowning over the throne comment and reminding myself of all the reasons I had not to be getting
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Believe me, I tried everything I could think of to make it work for me, hoping it would show me some way for us to get to Tory.” Gabriel’s pained gaze moved to me, and my heart twisted at the thought of what they’d all been through while I was held by Lionel in his manor. I knew they’d done everything they could, and I couldn’t imagine how much it had hurt my siblings to know there was nothing they could do to save me while terrified of what was happening to me. It would have sent me insane.
“If you want me to prove it then throw whatever else you like at me,” he taunted, closing his eyes again and waiting. Caleb smirked as he leaned forward, lifting his hand and casting round stones into his palm before throwing them at Gabriel one after another. My brother caught each of them with ease, never once opening his eyes and somehow having his hand in the perfect place to make the catch no matter what way Caleb shot them at him. “Satisfied?” Gabriel asked, smirking cockily and I grinned at him. That shit was stupid cool. I seriously had the best siblings.
I ducked into Darius’s room as Darcy moved into mine and I looked around for a moment before snagging one of his hoodies from the end of his bed and taking it with me. I wasn’t going to let myself overthink the fact that I slept better when I was wrapped up in his clothes than I did without them. They were just warmer than mine. And comfier. And smelled all kinds of nice.
Then I pulled on Darius’s hoodie and made myself and Darcy little crowns made of white rose vines just to use every Element before crawling into the bed and waiting for her. It was pretty damn cool having all the Elements and I was in the mood to celebrate our win.
