Fated Throne (Zodiac Academy, #6)

by Caroline Peckham

Denial was my best friend who liked to braid my hair and call me pretty.

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“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.”

“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.

“I told you I love you. I tattooed it on my flesh, Roxy, I feel like I’ve made my feelings pretty clear. You’re all I want for myself. The only choice I wish I could make and the only one I can’t. So, you don’t think anything. You know I’m yours, every damn piece of me. But you’ve never told me what you want out of owning me or if I own you too.”

I stepped forward and caught her face between my hands, kissing her in a hard and demanding plea for that to be the truth. Because if I had her then I knew I had it all. And I didn’t care if we really would have to tear the stars out of the sky to force them to give us our tomorrow. I’d do it. I’d pay any price they asked of me just to make this feeling last. Just to truly have her.

We stayed there, joined and panting, kissing softly and sweetly instead of hungrily and desperately and I ran my muddy hands up and down her spine, knowing this was the end of it. But I didn’t want her to go. I didn’t want her anywhere but in my arms, always.

I’m so fucking sorry, baby.

😭😭😭😭😭😭

She was breath taking to the point of pain and looking at her felt like there was a knife carving right through my heart because she would always be mine and could never be mine.

“Tell me what to do, baby,”

“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.”

Death would have to try and rip her from my arms itself if it wanted her, and even then, I would not let go.

“One year,” the voice breathed. “To love her like you ache to. To be the best of yourself. One year and no more.”

It wasn’t enough time. But no amount of days, months or years with her would ever be enough. And I knew that all the time in the world would be empty to me without her in it

There was no me without her. And I’d have given my life for hers even if I had to die right now.