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

by Caroline Peckham

“You poor, sad sack of a salamander.” I hugged him and he stiffened like a buttery bagel left out to dry in a heatwave.

I feel like she's mine, but she isn't at all. If she was my girl, I'd give her the damn world for her birthday. And now I have to just stand back and turn up at a party I was never even meant to be invited to

:(

"Hey, Gerry, you calling to ask me to be your date to the-" "Quit the lothario act you bungling baboon! We have a code brown!" "Someone shit themselves?" "No, you nincompoop! Someone spilled the beans! Mildred Canopus has found out about the party

"Mildred is planning to crash the party," I explained. "I will officially have blue balls for the rest of time if I don't stop her from turning up."

"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."

Darius was telling her that he belonged to her and that he wanted her to belong to him in return. Even if the stars wouldn't allow that in a physical sense.

Tory groaned softly as the image of her face faded from the sky and Darius grinned at her with enough heat to light a forest fire. It was a fucking travesty that they couldn't be together, but it made me realise that I couldn't keep letting this thing between me and Geraldine hang in this undefined limbo. I wanted her to be mine. All mine. Officially. And I was going to do what it took to confirm that.