Heartless Sky (Zodiac Academy, #7)

by Caroline Peckham

“Yeah...I think it did,” he said, his faith in my abilities clear in his expression. “We don’t know everything Phoenixes can do, and you have surprised me so many times that I’m certain you’ll keep doing so. So yes, Blue, if you cannot feel it and there is no mark, then surely, you’re no longer cursed.”

This seems too good to be true unfortunately

“We were just asking where Orion is staying,” Tory asked, tilting her head to one side as Hamish instantly gagged.

The gagging is actually so funny

“Well chestnuts in my nutsack, I am simply over the moon that you two are back together.”

“Chestnuts in my nutsack”

“Is it totally conceited of me to hope you might be waiting for me?” Darius’s voice called out from the dark and my eyes fluttered open.

FUCK YES

“I’m yours, Roxy,” he growled against my lips. “For every single second I have in this world, I’m all yours. And after that I’ll still be yours, wherever I end up after I’m gone, I’ll belong right here with you.”

Love him

Fury blossomed beneath my veins as I roared my rage to the heavens and released a blast of Dragon fire into the sky while clutching hold of the roof of the tallest tower in The Palace of Souls.

Get this fucker off my screen, fuck lionel and his pov

“You snuggle with Darcy and Darius all the time. But where’s my snuggles, Lance? Where’s. My. Snuggles?” “You’re fucking insane,” I hissed, and he let out a whimper, stepping toward me with his eyes going all large and dog like. As if that would ever work on me.

Seth kills a little piece of my soul at least four times a book but this is funny

“Isn’t that the Power Shamed professor who Dark Coerced a Vega?” someone hissed. “Why is he here?” “He should be ashamed of himself.” “I’d rather die than be Power Shamed. I’d just slit my throat right there and then in court.”

Can darcy just order them to knock it the fuck off or what

“Don’t tell me anything about where you are. Just tell me the other boys are okay so that I can pass the message along to Tiberius and Antonia.”

I LOVE MELINDA OMFG SAVE THE COUNCILLORS

Everyone knew the rumours about the apparent accident that had seen Lionel’s older brother Radcliff into an early grave, and there had long since been suspicions that Lionel was the one who was truly responsible for killing his brother off so that he could take his place without ever having to face him like Fae.

I dont know

Seth garbled and I felt the brush of his cock against my cheek as he got hard too,

Oh

“So I’ve had a really good idea of how to make my next move,” he said, looking like he could barely contain it. “I’m gonna play gay chicken with him.” “Gay chicken?” I frowned.

STOP

She’d knitted me the hat I wore now which connected me to the web of souls and had added extra protective spells which helped keep the shadows from crawling too deep into my mind. It was the only thing that made me feel like myself, so I rarely took it off. When I did, I could hear the Shadow Princess whispering in my head and I was afraid of how easy it was to fall under her command.

So this is why he was so irritable when lance took his hat

“The point is, we may have to acknowledge that Nymphs aren’t inherently evil.” Darius scrubbed a hand over his face. “I’ve killed so many Nymphs, man.”

Lmfao

“Is this weird?” he asked. “Definitely,” I confirmed.

Not them still borderline cuddling

But yes, I knew what he was saying and yes, they absolutely needed further education to rule this kingdom properly, but it seemed to me that if the Heirs just found a way to reform the Celestial Council as it was intended, supporting the monarchy instead of resisting it, then maybe they could find a way to make it work that would be better for everyone.

NO LITERALLY

“Ohmagod,” Darcy’s voice carried to me, but I couldn’t quite stir out of sleep to find her. “This is too cute.” “Shh, you’ll wake them and I need to get a photo so that I can mock them tirelessly with it,” Tory whispered. “They’re cuddling,” Darcy whisper-squealed and Tory shushed her again but started suppressing a laugh. “It’s called a man hug,” Darius said, his voice gruff from sleep and I cracked my eyes open, finding we’d shifted close together and were tangled in a ridiculous cuddle. “I guess old habits die hard,” I tried.

LMFAO

“Which is why we’ll make such good friends when you stop holding onto these silly grudges. You know what people say about grudges? It’s like taking killblaze and expecting your enemy to get high and kill themselves. But I’m never going to get high and kill myself, Lance. I’m going to be here always, as your friend. Just give into it, bro. It’s inevitable. Like you and Darcy were inevitable.” “That’s kinda cute,” Darcy said, looking to me with her eyelashes fluttering. “No.” I pointed at her. “Don’t you fall for that shit. He acts like he’s a puppy when he wants something, but he’s still the savage Wolf who cut your hair off, Blue. I’m never going to forget what it felt like finding you on the floor in the wake of his cruelty.”

Im def with lance on this

“We’ll see,” Darcy tossed back and I frowned at the way they were looking at each other, seeing their friendship properly for the first time since I’d come back into Darcy’s life. And shit, it looked familiar. Like the sort of bond I felt with Gabriel.

Dont tell me theyre fucking nebula allies...

“Ooh, so shiny,” she breathed, leaning down to pick up a fat diamond as Darius let out a growl of possessiveness, rushing forward to gather up some of the others as he knelt in the snow. “Those are not yours, Darius.” Tory grabbed them from him, but he had that wild glint in his eyes which he always got around treasure, trying to prise them back out of her fingers. “I’ll look after them,” he said firmly. “Give them to me.”

Darius bffr

“Ruby for Cancer,”

Shoutout meeeee

I’d never realised my mom had an interest in cooking, but she’d been throwing herself into it wholeheartedly since we’d been here, helping to make all of the meals for the rebels while Hamish hung around her, murmuring sweet praises and stealing kisses from her whenever he thought no one was paying attention.

Honestly i ship it

It had been eight weeks already, but it didn’t feel like that. It felt like a blink of an eye and barely a taste of everything I’d always dreamed I might be able to claim for myself. A year was never going to be enough, but now I could see that it was going to be so brief that it broke me.

I stg they better find a way out of this

that Shadow bitch

I think that curse is still connected to darcy and lavinia is using it to kill these people. Tho idk why she would kill randoms

Geraldine came rushing over to the herd with a mountain of clothes floating along behind her on a gust of air magic.

I thought she had water and earth magic?

It was like she’d been bursting with a love that had been all trapped and tied up inside her for so long that now that it was free, she couldn’t help but dole it out to everyone as often as she could. And though I found it hard to express, I freaking loved her playing mom with me. She’d even styled my hair for me a couple of times and it had made my heart feel all light and fluttery even though I hadn’t known how to tell her that. But I kinda got the feeling she knew, because she’d been missing that kind of affection for so long herself that she just recognised it easily in others.

Thats so fucking cute actually. I want the best for catalina

“Lavinia gifted my father a shadow hand to replace the one you took from him,” Darius replied darkly and I growled angrily at that revelation. “Oh, fuck him,” I snapped angrily. “He’s such a fucking dick. Why couldn’t he just be off crying over his lost hand and feeling sorry for himself in a hole somewhere? I bet he was so fucking smug about it too.”

Lmao girl i wish

Honestly, without my training I wasn’t sure he’d even know a poppet hole from an under globe.

How pathetic of him

Fire flared to life in Justin’s palms and Max gave a cocky little smirk not unlike the one he’d gifted me on an occasion or two when he was plundering my sea cave.

"plundering my sea cave"

vajooza

Seth i hate you

“Posted,” Tyler announced, stuffing his Atlas back into his pocket and smirking at Xavier. “It’s my peen versus yours, dude. May the best cock win.”

What the fuck

“The Rise of the False King,” I read, anger bubbling beneath the surface of my skin as my fire magic licked a path around my body. "By Felicity Corbin.”

NOT TYLERS MOM ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

And when they kill you, long may they reign.”

Felicity ate

finding a familiar looking lilac haired girl sitting on the back of a Griffin as she held up its tail and another huge pile of faeces came tumbling towards me.

Ok but whos the griffin

“Do not mock me.” I snarled in warning. “No one can cast within a hundred yards of the FIB headquarters. She couldn’t have fucking touched me with anything lethal.”

If only elise had a gun

I noticed a guy up ahead who I’d seen tattooing Fae in the dining hall and I trailed after him now, his silky black hair pulled into a topknot and the loose fitting tank top he wore showing off the endless Disney tattoos covering his arms.

RYDER?!

“You know he could literally see this conversation right now though, don’t you?” I said, aware that I had about as much chance of pranking Gabriel Nox as I had of shifting into a Dragon like my good ol’ daddy had always wanted. “Nah, he’s busy right now,” he said with a knowing smirk.

Oh barf

“Yup,” I said with a nod. “The whole thing. Top to bottom, front and back, as glittery and shiny as you can make it.” He scrubbed a hand over the stubble on his jaw, then took out the large needle from the box. “Well it’s gonna hurt like a motherfucker.” “Can’t you heal it as you do it?” I whinnied in protest. “Nah, not my style. I’ll heal it after.” He smirked cruelly, shoving my legs aside as he sat beside me on the couch and roughly took hold of my cock, making me neigh in alarm. “Ready? On three.”

This is so uncomfy but so unserious

“By the light of an unholy moon!” Geraldine cried, shielding her eyes. “What a time to unveil your Long Sherman!” “Xavier,” Darius hissed. “Cover the fuck up.” “Here, baby boy.” Mom grabbed some sweatpants from the bed, tossing them to me and I scrambled into them, nearly falling on my ass as everyone looked at me and my cheeks burned as hot as the sun.

The second hand embarrassment is overwhelming

“A Ron Johnson or four between the bedsheets is all well and good for pickling your baguette, but when it comes to matters of the heart, a platoon of Long Shermans would never be satisfactory. So do Tyler and Xavier rock your underboats as well as showering your cockles in fresh whelks? Do they make your Lady Petunia do the ding-dang-tango and button your damsen?”

Ron Johnson shoutout?

“Shit dude, you look like you’ve been cheating on my sister with that hardback,” I teased and he looked up at us with a grin as he laid the book down in front of him. “Do I need to break her spine?” Darcy teased as he shoved his messed up hair out of his eyes with a deep laugh.

Don’t you dare

The most well-known being The Gems of Lariom which were rumoured to be the prized possession of a Dragon called Hermiod hundreds of years ago.

Hemroid

“Hell yeah we can,” Seth agreed. “We’re the Phoen Dream, Bitchy Flame Eyes, Wolfman, Bitey C, Fish Fury, Dragzilla, Professor Shame and Batty Betty.”

Oh wow he remembered the others and made more for the rest

Big men like to talk the talk and bluster on about how powerful and right they are

Facts

“Relax, Lionel never put his stumpy cock near me, but I saw him slamming it into Clara enough times while I was all shadow freak to understand why he’s got so much damn rage in him. It looks like a mushroom that got half decapitated.”

Goodness gracious bffr

“Promise me you’ll make sure your sister behaves, Blue,” Orion muttered to Darcy as I closed in on them. “Just do what Darius says and stay safe while we’re out there.” “Don’t worry,” Darcy agreed easily, glancing at me and twinunicating the fact that neither of us would be blindly taking orders from my boyfriend tonight.

I don’t like that they are acting like they know what they’re doing without the guys. Let’s be real.

“Looks like I trust you now, sanguis frater,”

Tf does this mean

For a heartbeat the fire along my wings flickered out and my breath snagged as I was almost sure my wings were about to fall away, panic crashing through my chest. They reignited in the next moment and I glanced at Tory ahead of me, glad she hadn’t noticed as I steadied my thrashing heartbeat and kept flying.

Girl? You good?

Except that wasn’t what happened. My magic stuttered like the flickering flame of a candle in the wind and the fire along my wings stuttered out too.

Its that fucking curse, i knew she didnt get rid of it

“Thank you, sanguis frater,” Orion said to him and Caleb nodded, but I was too dazed to ask what that meant.

God damnit some one translate