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

by Caroline Peckham

I didn’t need any help in lusting after him anyway. I’d been drooling like a dog at dinner time every time I’d looked his way since the first time I’d laid eyes on him.

I was smiling so fucking big that my cheeks were aching as I waded out of the lake with Geraldine’s hand firmly clamped in mine.

She was so uninhibited, not trying to be cool or seductive or offer me any bullshit, just vibrant and fucking crazy and alluring as fuck.

All I knew was that the sound of Geraldine Grus begging me to slip my shark into the dark was a million times hotter than a girl begging me to fuck her in any kind of conventional way.

"Sex with her is a constant series of asking yourself what the fuck just happened? What the fuck did she just say? What the fuck did she just call me? Why the fuck does that feel so goddamn good? And that's the most you'll ever find out about it because she's mine," I informed him.

"Quit the lothario act you bungling baboon! We have a code brown!" "Someone shit themselves?"

Seth suggested before turning and licking the icing off of Caleb’s cheek which earned him a half-hearted punch to the ribs.

"No one fucks with my girl on her birthday."

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.

"Oh wow! The moon is really bright tonight!" Caleb's voice carried to me and I found him pointing to something across the room with an exaggerated look of awe on his face. A wail escaped me as I spotted Seth Capella up on the banquet table with his trousers around his thighs as he waved his naked buttocks at the whole room.

Was swoony a word? I looked at Gerry as she hopped up and down to a sinful bass and decided it was. I was swoony for her. Not that I was gonna start saying dumb shit like that out loud, but yeah. Swoony.

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

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.

Geraldine Grus was all mine.

I couldn't get enough of this girl, I felt like she'd wormed her way under my skin like a splinter I never wanted to remove. I just wanted her to keep working her way deeper and deeper until she pierced my heart and stayed lodged there forever.

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

"But I want you for more than just now. I want to keep you, tell the whole fucking world that you're mine."

"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.

"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."

And then I was going to spend those two years making her fall for me so hard that there would be no way in hell that she could ever give me up. Either that or I was setting myself up to have my heart ripped from my chest and crushed before my eyes. But she was worth the risk. So I was going to take it.