The Big A.S.S. Party (Zodiac Academy, #5.5)

by Caroline Peckham

“Grus!” he called behind me and I turned, raising an eyebrow at him. “Where are you going?” “To dance with the daydews and Faeflies on a rainbow of sand!”

“A lady doesn’t tumble with a stranger no matter how seductive his scales my be.”

“Fuck, Grus, I have no idea why, but when you talk like an insane person it turns me on so goddamn much,” Max growled.

Gracious, my queens had been through the mill this year, it was the least I could do to throw them the hoohah of all hoohahs today.

"Because I'm a hateful bitch who believed no one could ever love me for so long that I ended up making it come true."

I'd never chased any other girl before, but you could bet your ass I chased her.

I'd never felt a pull to anyone the way I did to her, never ached for anyone the way I did with her either and as I thought about that, I realised I didn't want to keep playing this game of cat and mouse with her. I didn't want to keep fighting to reel her in only to have her run again.

"Don't you want me, Gerry?" I asked her, taking her chin in my grip and tugging so that she was forced to meet my gaze. “Hunger for me? Ache for me in the dead of night and think about me all the damn time? Because that's how I feel about you. And I'm fed up of chasing around and trying to act like you're not all that I want. I can't believe that you don't feel the same."

"My tempting trout, you don't know how hard it is to say no to you,"

"Then why are you trying to?"

"So give me that time," I said. "Two years. Two years of you and me to fuck and fight and fall in love and be all the things we won't be able to be once you walk down that aisle. Give me that time to try and convince you that that life isn't what you really want. We don't ever have to talk politics, we don't even have to tell anyone if you don't want to. Just let it be me and you, at least for a little while."