Sorrow and Starlight (Zodiac Academy, #8)

by Caroline Peckham

“This doesn’t feel like he saved me,” I replied, releasing my hold on the ruby pendant bitterly, severing any imagined connection I felt to Darius’s spirit through it and slamming those walls back up around my heart before I could feel any more of the agony which was threatening to consume me. “It feels like he destroyed me one final time. Like this was all some big joke, leading up to the annihilation of everything I was and ever could have been.” “You’re still you, Tory,” Caleb said, reaching for my hand but I shrugged the contact off and reached for the book instead. “No. I’m not. I’m just an echo left behind, a malignant spirit set on revenge, and I’m far beyond the point of salvation. Which means there isn’t anything in this book I won’t use if that’s what it takes to right the wrongs which have been done against me and mine. Do you understand?” There was a threat there, a promise of its own as I drew that line, letting him know that I wasn’t going to back out of anything we found here now. There was no boundary containing me, no leash on my need for revenge. No matter what we found in this book, I wouldn’t be turned from the idea of using it if I could do so to keep the promises I’d made while kneeling in the blood of the man I loved and cursing the stars themselves. Caleb’s gaze was steady as he looked back at me, and I knew then that I wasn’t the only one who had gone beyond the point of salvation. Losing Darius was a burden neither of us could bear without reparat...