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April 19 - April 24, 2025
“Is that an order from my queen?” he teased, the deep rumble of his voice against my core almost sending me over the edge. “The first she ever gave me. What will the citizens of her kingdom think of that?”
“I’d kill a thousand enemies if it brought me to this,” Darius rumbled in my ear, like he could tell what I was thinking without me needing to voice it. “I’d paint myself in blood and stain my soul beyond repair. Anything to bring me here, anything to have you in my arms like this.” “So would I,” I replied, looking over my shoulder at him and as our eyes met, I knew we were thinking the same thing.
“Before the stars ever got to have a say in it, I would have picked you for my own,” he told me, his words interspersed with kisses to the side of my face, my jaw, my neck. “My obsession with you has been tormenting me from the moment we met and will continue to torment me for the rest of time. I can’t get enough, won’t ever get enough.”
love you, Roxanya Vega,” he growled, hands roaming up my sides as he withdrew enough to part our bodies and I instantly missed the feeling of him inside me. “I love this freckle right here…” His mouth dropped to my shoulder as he placed a light kiss against it, and I breathed a laugh. “And I love this one, just here…”
“Well, that’s a problem, Roxy, because I won’t ever be done with you,” he swore and goddamn him, I fucking blushed.
“You mean the one I got on your birthday the summer before you came to the academy?” he asked casually, and I gaped at him. “You got that on my birthday?” I hissed,
“So you’re just going to stick to your belief that you waking up on my birthday and heading out to get your biggest tattoo with no pre-planning at all, had fuck all to do with me – even though it depicts my Order and yours in a dance which looks one step away from violence and another away from love?” I demanded.
“I hate you again,” I muttered, and he smirked at me. “No, baby, you never quite managed to hate me.”
burning in my palms as I thought to save him. It still gutted me to remember how I’d given in to the plea in her beautiful eyes, guttering my flames and retreating to the back of the room with the rest of our classmates as Gary was beaten and hauled from the room. “Long live the true Queens!” he’d roared as they dragged him out of sight, nothing but bloodstains marking where he’d been sat mere moments before their arrival. I’d been
took off running back to R.U.M.P. Castle, panic darting through me as I shot a message to the group chat, finding that someone had changed all of our names to some stupid nicknames. It was undeniably Seth. Twinkle Stud: Zodiac Academy is under attack! Batty Betty: Butter my bagels! We must rally together – meet in the bowels of the mighty R.U.M.P! Twinkle Stud: Where’s the bowels??? Batty Betty: The entrance hall, you nincompoop! Bitey C: On my way. Wolfman: Me too. Heading there from the depths of the butt castle. Fish Fury:
Gerry I really don’t know how you fused this bagel onto my dick but – fuck **this message was deleted** Wolfman: OH. MY. STARS. Did everyone see that???!!! Twinkle Stud: We need to go!!
“Well, he shall do the job, even if he does it disturbingly so,” Geraldine muttered.
“You can’t go to war with a bagel on your cock. As your bestie, I can’t let you.” Seth ran at Max, Pitball tackling him to the ground and shoving his hand down his pants.
Lmaol
“How’d you do that?” Max gasped in relief. “Believe it or not, this isn’t the strangest object I’ve jangled off a guy’s cock, Max,” Seth said, pushing to his feet and pulling Max after him.
LMFAOO
“You will,” he said with complete certainty. “You would go to the sun and back for him. So long as he is with you, he is where he wants to be. Only you have the power to make him happy beyond all imagination.”
“Ready yet, Blue?” Orion asked with a teasing smirk. “Lemme just check my Shadow Beast ring.” I twisted it around on my middle finger then raised it to swear at him as I joined them. “Yup. All good.” “You’re gonna be in trouble for that,” Orion growled in my ear as Gabriel took a pinch of stardust from the pouch.
Seth spotted me first as Gabriel and Orion drew closer at my back, and my friend’s jaw dropped, his hand reaching for Caleb’s sleeve and tugging insistently. “No fucking way,” Max said as he spotted us and Caleb looked up too, his navy gaze settling on us at last. “It’s Darcy,” Seth gasped. “Look. It’s Darcy!”
REUNION
“How are you here? What about the curse?” he whimpered. “It’s broken. I’m free,” I said earnestly, and he howled with all the happiness in the world vibrating through that single noise. Hell, I’d missed him. I’d missed all of them. I looked up through the curtain of Seth’s hair that had fallen over me, seeing Caleb collide with Orion at full Vampire speed, sending him flying back into a wall and a crack exploded up the middle of it. “The Death bond?” Caleb begged of him, nose to nose with my mate. “Gone, brother,” Orion said with relief in his voice. “I’ll tell you everything soon.”
Awww
When he released me, I found Caleb hugging Gabriel and Orion tried to escape as Seth sprinted for him with his arms outstretched. “My moon friend!” he cried, and Orion tried to bat him off as Seth collided with him and licked him straight on the forehead. Seth whimpered like a dog who hadn’t seen his owner for a year and Orion relented, letting Seth clamber onto him like a limpet and hug him tight, nuzzling his face while Orion twitched a grin and clapped Seth on the shoulder.
Aww
“Oh I missed you so much, Gabriel,” Seth said with a choked sob. “We don’t really hang out, like ever,” Gabriel said, patting him on the back. “We’re gonna,” Seth said, releasing him and giving him an intent look. “Every day. Morning, noon and night.” “O…kay,” Gabriel said with a chuckle then Seth
Lmaoo
There was no way, no damn way this could be real. But I knew that voice, knew it from every desperate dream I’d had about that girl each night, missing her with all my heart.
YES
I leaned down, gripping her arms and hauling her upright, and she looked at me with tears racing down her cheeks. I realised my own tears were falling and my heart was floating in my chest. “It’s me. I got away and my curse is broken. I’ve missed you so, so much.”
Oh my heart
study her and I shrugged, forcing myself to let her go again. “Just you, Roxy. Only ever you.”
Let my enemies remember that even death can’t defeat me when I come for them.”
and dark magic surging through my mind. “You want to power share?” Darcy asked, offering her hand instantly. “We need to do more than that,” I replied darkly, drawing a dagger from my belt before meeting her eyes. “Do you trust me?” “Always,” she replied without hesitation, and we shared a grim look before I took hold of her hand and began to carve a mark into her palm.
Until footsteps broke it. Heavy boots strode between the gathered crowd, making my pulse thunder with recognition as he appeared between the bodies, as gasps of fear, disbelief and utter confusion spilled out around him. “All hail the true Queens,” Darius growled in a low and powerful voice which rang with a clap of magic that seemed to break the spell that had fallen over everyone who was still staring at us in awe.
I met my husband’s eyes as he dropped to one knee before us, placing the head of his axe against the ground and bowing his head low before us. “I pledge my life to your service.” His words were like a summoning and suddenly they were all there, Caleb falling to his knees at Darius’s side, his navy eyes wide with amazement as he looked first to his lost brother, then to Darcy and I who stood shell shocked, hand in hand, in the wake of that terrible power we had just summoned to save us all. “I pledge my life in your service,” Caleb said loudly, silence echoing out once more as the crowd seemed
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Oh my god
I met my husband’s eyes as he dropped to one knee before us, placing the head of his axe against the ground and bowing his head low before us. “I pledge my life to your service.” His words were like a summoning and suddenly they were all there, Caleb falling to his knees at Darius’s side, his navy eyes wide with amazement as he looked first to his lost brother, then to Darcy and I who stood shell shocked, hand in hand, in the wake of that terrible power we had just summoned to save us all. “I pledge my life in your service,” Caleb said loudly, silence echoing out once more as the crowd seemed
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Fucking hell
“I pledge my life in your service,” Seth breathed almost reverently, and I sucked in a sharp breath as heat began to grow in my chest. The stars flared in defiance overhead as the feeling of that power grew, Geraldine dropping to her knees with a cry of her devotion, followed by Orion who smirked knowingly. Then Gabriel, Xavier, Tyler, Sofia, and the entire school beyond them, every one of them falling to their knees before us. Only then did I spot our army who had come to fight alongside us, their ranks spreading out beyond us into The Wailing Wood and throughout the entire campus as they
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Fuckung hhell
The reflection in her green eyes told me a matching crown of red had appeared for me too. We gaped at one another as the truth of our ascension fell over us, our parents’ presence seeming closer than ever before as though they had been the ones to crown us. A thundering pulse grew against my chest and Darcy looked to my throat suddenly, her hand reaching out to touch the Imperial Star which had begun to glow with untold power. “We can use it,” I breathed, my eyes widening with the things that impossible power could offer us.
The stars were screaming, responding to the choice we’d made as our decision resonated out to the edges of the universe. They had no choice but to give into our wishes, unable to touch this fate. It was ours, and ours alone, and this was what we’d decided.
We were no longer shifted into our Orders, and no crowns of fire hung above us either. It was just us, two sisters, nothing more or less. And something about that seemed right for this task.
“Have you come to fulfil the broken promise at last?” Tory and I shared a look then she raised her chin and spoke loud and clear to it. “We have.”
“We shouldn’t shift. This is where I saw all those Phoenixes burst into flames,” I said warily, noticing an old pile of bones under a layer of dust. “Okay,” she agreed. “Twins,” the star purred. “One soul, two halves.”
I studied her face, seeing the differences in her, a darkness in her eyes that hadn’t been there the last time we’d stood side by side as free Fae. She’d changed in the time since the battle, and my heart ruptured as it didn’t fully recognise her anymore. Had I been so blind not to realise we’d reached a crossroads and turned down different paths?
“A better mate than a sister, I guess.” She turned her back on me and a snarl rolled from my throat. “You’re different. Something’s happened to you,” I said furiously, chasing her down and not letting her walk away from this. “A whole hell of a lot has happened, Darcy. And maybe you’d know that if you’d been there. But I broke alone, and I did things I can’t ever undo to piece myself back together, to find a way into the land of the dead and drag back the man who left me wrecked in his wake.”
“You and me, we’re different. We have different wants, different needs. I’m always going to love you, and you’ll always be my twin, but I’m not sure we should depend on each other like we used to. At least, I shouldn’t depend on you the way I did…
Oh shit
“Really,” I said firmly. “When I look at you, I will always see the girl who took on the whole world for me, even when we were skinny little orphans with nothing and no one to love us. We loved each other, and that kind of love is greater than all else. It’ll never die, no matter who we become. No matter who else we love now too. At our core, we’re still us.”
And as we walked down into the depths of the caverns, our hands found each other’s and we were just two little girls again, about to take on an enemy that was far bigger than us. But together, we would find a way to defeat it.
I blinked as the light faded away, finding two girls standing in the cavern, the image of Tory and I, flames flickering between their fingers. “I am Fae,” the false me spoke in reverence, my voice perfectly mimicked by the star. “True freedom is mine,” the fake Tory finished, as if this thing was both of us now, housed in our skins.
