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April 19 - April 24, 2025
“Look at me,” I demanded, running into her line of sight, my heart pounding as something in the wild creature’s gaze shifted. I could have sworn my other half was looking back at me from within those beastly eyes.
I wouldn’t strike her. Not once. But I wasn’t inclined to let her eat me alive either.
No matter how far either of us had ever fallen before, there had never once been a time when the other couldn’t drag us back to ourselves. She was it for me and I was for it for her. That one, immovable thing. That tether to the here and now.
But she was there. I knew it. And she would never hurt me.
Not a scrap of magic shone around me or blossomed in my blood, ready to be put to use. There was nothing at all between us but the truth of who we were. Gemini twins. One and the same.
“Blue!” I bellowed, my voice ripping out of my lungs and echoing around the entire throne room. But she was gone, no glimmer of her in that rabid beast which was tearing into her twin’s flesh. She would be destroyed by this, she’d never come back from it if she killed her other half, and beyond that, Tory had become like kin to me. I couldn’t see her die. I’d sworn to Darius that I’d protect her and wherever my friend was now, I knew he could see his moment, that he was roaring my name in the sky and demanding I save her.
“Darcy Vega, fight your way back to us!” I commanded, but those eyes were pitch black and held no sign of my mate in them.
Red curtained my vision and the animal in me called out for its brother, my sanguis frater. With a feeling like being jerked awake, my vision suddenly doubled, and I could somehow see a whole different location. I felt my mind merging with another, and knew without having to ask that it was my coven brother I was connected to through this impossible magic.
“Caleb?!” I blurted, speaking it aloud but it echoed into his head, and I could feel the moment he jolted back a step in surprise. “Orion?” he gasped. “What am I seeing? Is that Tory?”
“You’re my sanguis frater. I can’t walk away from you now that I’ve found you.” “I made a Death bond with Lavinia, Caleb,” I revealed in a low voice and he immediately shook his head, trying to defy the honesty he could see in my eyes. But then our bond sang like a tune in my mind, an understanding passing between us, like for just a moment, we could see the world through each other’s eyes. “No,” he begged, like he could make it not true by pure will alone, but he was giving in, because he had felt the reality of my situation and there was no refuting it. “I’m sorry.
Caleb rose to his feet, Tory’s wounds healed enough to at least staunch the bleeding. He gazed at me in confliction, but finally relented. “Alright. I trust you, brother.”
Our eyes locked, an unspoken promise between us that we’d find each other again soon. We didn’t need to say anything. No goodbyes. Because whether in this life or the next, we would always find each other now.
I’d remain here until Blue came back to me. However long it took.
always did like you bloodstained and violent,” he replied, climbing onto my back while his words made my heart leap. “Ditto,” I replied, and we shot away towards death together for what felt like the hundredth time.
“This is for them,” I hissed, all the poison of grief gushing out of me into this foul Fae. “And you won’t be the last.”
me. I felt no fear as I ran on, every muscle in my body working to bring me closer to the man who had stolen so much from me.
The man they were now bonded to and would do anything to protect. But I had three Elements and a whole lifetime of hatred burning through my core, and somehow between the ground rising around me and the shield I held above my head, I managed to avoid the strikes aimed my way.
Sixteen. Shit odds, but then again, none of them were me.
He was cut off by Caleb throwing his arms around us too, pulling Xavier into the Heir sandwich and cursing in relief as their love and fear washed over me. “I love you assholes too,” I choked out. “But we need to get the fuck out of this place.” “Agreed.”
My mind hooked onto the bloodstained girl who had laid beneath me just moments ago, and something cracked in my head, allowing me to see clearly again for a single second. Tory.
This monster had turned my own body against my sister, and I was going to force it to bow down to my might, because I was not submitting. I was not going to forget who I was again. I was not giving up.
“I’ve got you, Blue.” Orion was there in the next heartbeat, pulling me close even as I tried to push him away.
My twin. My fierce, remarkable sister who had been my heroine more times than I could count. She was passion and resilience and fire set alight. She was my burning beacon, and I may have just doused her flames forever. “She’s alive,” Orion spoke slowly and deliberately to me, forcing me to hear those words. “Caleb took her. He’ll heal her, I promise you, Blue.”
“I will break this curse, come what fucking may. Do you hear me, Blue? It is a truth as certain as the sky is above us and the ground is below.”
This dire reality closed in, the immensity of their offspring’s power unthinkable.
Fucking fantastic
Orion hissed in pain, his fangs bared, and the moment Tharix released him, he cast a blade of ice in his hand and slammed it into the monster’s temple with a roar of defiance. Tharix crumpled to the floor with a thwack, blackish blood pouring from the wound. Lavinia screamed in rage, but Orion had obeyed her order to let Tharix break his ribs, she had said nothing to hold him back after it was done.
Orion stalked over to her, darkness in his eyes while glaring defiantly at Lavinia.
don’t see my brother with you,” I growled in a low voice, my back tingling where my wings lay dormant, as if they were hungering to escape the confines of my flesh. Rosalie snarled low and rough behind him, she and Leon stepping closer to flank him while I stood my ground before them. Just little old me against a pack of hellhounds.
I whirled to face Tiberius, but Max had gotten there first, his chest slamming into his father’s as I found the two of them on their feet, facing off against each other. “The so-called youngsters in this room have fought and bled for this war,” Max snarled. “We’ve seen death and mayhem unlike anything you’ve ever experienced in your cushy office jobs. We’ve fought alongside friend and foe alike and lost more than just those we loved along the way. We’ve sacrificed our souls to this cause, pieces of us fracturing and breaking off with every heinous act we are forced to commit in the name of
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Damn go max
He was Dark Coercing your fucking king, the man you were all sworn to serve and protect at all costs, and you didn’t even see it. So don’t try to talk down to Roxanya Vega now that she is standing there before you, bloodied and broken from everything that has been stolen from her thanks to all of those failures. You should be on your knees begging her forgiveness.”
Wow go on max
I glanced from her to Melinda Altair, expecting the same outrage there but finding something far softer instead, her eyes bright with regret.
There was an ache in my chest where Darcy’s rejection had carved a piece from my heart. I may have been able to understand her reasons for staying while I was dragged back here, but it didn’t make it hurt any less. She was my other half, but I wasn’t even certain that I was half a girl at all without her now.
Veil. It wasn’t immortality, but it was as close as I could get. There was a cost of course, but childhood memories weren’t things I cherished. Reliving some of the worst things Darcy and I had endured for the benefit of the soul I had coaxed into being my anchor was an acceptable price for this power.
But that wasn’t the path I was going to tread. I wasn’t going to let the stars shepherd me to my damnation so easily “Dante loves Gabriel like a brother too, you know,” Rosalie Oscura said as she padded into my room without any inclination to ask permission, nor give an explanation for how she’d made it past the guards standing at the foot of the stairs. “He would have gladly given his life if that was what it took to rescue him from the clutches of that pezzo di merda, Lionel Acrux.”
was done waiting here for something to happen. I’d been hanging on for Darcy, but she’d made her choice and it wasn’t me. It hurt. Hurt so fucking bad I could hardly breathe, but there it was. I wasn’t about to throw myself a pity party over the fact, despite how tempting the idea of that was. So now I was going to be selfish too. The winter solstice was almost upon us, and I was done waiting to fulfil the promise I’d made.
Shes so strong
“That was fun. Especially the part when he started crying because he thought he’d killed me.” I couldn’t help the bark of laughter that escaped me at the wickedness in her dark eyes, and I found myself more curious about this little visit than I had been.
“Because I fight dirty,” she replied with a feral grin. “And for all his Alpha bullshit, Seth Capella is a clean-cut rich boy when you get to the bones of him. All the Heirs are - even Darius was, beneath that rough, inked exterior of his.” My heart hurt at his name, but I didn’t let that stop me from thinking of him, refusing to balk from the pain of his memory and risk losing him altogether. “Oh, I know. I gave him shit for it relentlessly.” “Woman after my own heart,” Rosalie purred, moving to sit beside me on the bed, her knee brushing my thigh as she crossed her legs and placed the book
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“It…went to shit. The Dragon stronzo discovered us before we could escape. Roary saved me, but by doing so he cast his own fate and he was captured. He’s been in Darkmore Penitentiary ever since.”
Ohhh thas the romance in the sequel
No one has even come close. To attempt escape from that hell is to welcome death.” “So why do I feel like you’re planning on breaking him out of there?” I asked, wondering if she was insane and she leaned closer conspiratorially. “Because maybe I am.” Before I could reply to that, Rosalie pushed the Book of Earth into my lap on top of the Book of Ether, her finger pressing down on a spell I hadn’t paid much attention to before now.
But I can always tell when two souls are destined to be with one another. Or sometimes even more than two.” “What do you-” “I have never felt anything like the connection I felt between you and Darius Acrux,” she breathed,
“The power of your love and hatred burned hotter than the sun itself, the constant tug and pull, a war unending and a passion unyielding. You were two stars always set to collide and cast the world on fire because fuck the consequences.”
“Why are you telling me this now?” I asked, my voice weak as the loss of him surrounded me, the memory of that love we’d felt echoing in all the empty places of my soul and making them ache with longing. The ruby necklace I wore seemed to heat at her words too, the echo of his hand slipping through my hair, a memory that was somehow tangible like his ghost was leaning in to listen. “Because that fire hasn’t gone out yet,” Rosalie breathed, taking a lock of my ebony hair and winding it around her finger until it pulled tight, like she’d known I’d imagined his touch there too. “I feel a chord of
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Awww rose
“Segui il fuoco,”
“Enjoy,” I called as she left, sauntering off like she ruled the damn world and hell, if I didn’t know better, then maybe I’d believe that she did.
called after her, but all I got in reply was a distant laugh from her as she shouted, “You’re welcome!”
No. My fate was sealed well before that. With the blade which stole the man I loved from this world and left me here alone to suffer through his loss.
Sacrifice, blood, pain. I didn’t care. I’d offer it all willingly and throw myself upon the pyre of my own destruction if it wasn’t enough, because the world wasn’t the place it needed it to be without him.
“Hey! The Rat man has something to say,” I snapped, and they all looked to me again, but I pointed at the guy on the chair. “Um, hello, hi,” he stammered, giving them an awkward wave, and Tiberius placed his hands on his hips impatiently. “I’m Eugene Dipper. And I’ve been sent by Queen Darcy to, um, give you these items.” He reached for the crystal first.
Awww
“This is a Guild Stone!” she cried, holding the opal up to the light. “Our great and magnanimous Darcy has seized another! I shall put it with the rest of the stones at once and protect them with my worthless life.” “It’s not worthless,” Max snapped, but she ignored him, pushing the items down into her cleavage, even the damn book.
Sure, I still wanted my seat on the Council, but I couldn’t deny how much I admired the Vegas for all they’d done in this war.
