Heartless Sky (Zodiac Academy, #7)

by Caroline Peckham

“I married her,” I taunted as I swung the axe once more. “And when I return to her with your head hanging from my fist, I’ll bow to her too.”

Return to the stars, Darius. Perhaps they’ll be kinder to you in death than they were in life.”

I wasn’t a good man. And I certainly wasn’t a perfect one. But I had been hers.

And that was the way I wanted to leave this life, because when it came down to it, I knew that she was it for me. The only thing I’d ever truly needed and for the briefest span of time she had belonged to me. And that was enough. There is only her.

“Tell Darius that I love him,” I whispered to Xavier,

“Into the evermore we go, my love,” he breathed. “Don’t let go of my hand,”

Then I prayed on everything I held dear, that she and her sister would one day find a way to cast a light through the dark and guide their people to victory.

My dark nightmare, my beautiful daydream, my stolen fate.