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April 19 - April 24, 2025
Always the fucking martyr, always standing between that monster and the world like he’d been waiting to die for us all his entire life regardless of any deal he made with the stars.”
“Use me then, Cal,” Seth panted in submission, the want in him peeling me open and making me come undone for him. “Take me and use me and make me forget all the shit in this world for a little while. I’ll be a good pup for you if that’s what you need.
DAMN
“On your knees,” I demanded, tugging on his hair hard enough to make him hiss, but a groan followed the noise, making it more than clear that he liked it. “I’ve been dreaming about that mouth of yours and I need to feel it again.” Seth sucked in a sharp breath at those words but instead of giving in to my demand, he yanked against my hold on his hair and took my mouth with his instead.
DAMN
I growled at Seth as I took hold of his shoulders and shoved him to his knees before me.
“You want it that bad?” I panted, his words pushing into my overrun mind and falling to ash against the lust which was set to consume me at any moment. “Yes.” He nodded, licking his lips. “So give it to me.”
Seth tightened his jaw and gave me the most aggressive peace sign I had ever seen in my life.
LMFAOOO
I looked to the girl who had been my friend, lover, enemy and so much in between, but I struggled to recognise much of the person who lived within those deep green eyes now.
“That is what I intend to focus on,” she replied coolly, no question over whether or not that would be permissible, just a statement from a queen.
“My sister and I pardoned them of all implied or real punishments that might have been expected for their bond,” Tory interrupted,
“If you have an issue with it, then perhaps you should take that up with me.” The challenge hung in the air, an offer I could tell Tory wouldn’t back down from. She was hungry for a fight, hunting for an outlet for all the pain and fury she was keeping contained so deeply within her. She may have been hiding it convincingly from the world, but to those who knew her well enough, that agony was clear to see in the vacancy of her eyes.
The girl who could be queen stood, turning from the room despite the protests of my mom and the other Councillors, not even giving a shit as she turned her back on them and offered up that insult before striding from the room.
“I don’t accept this fate,” she said simply. “I refuse it, and I refuse the guidance of the stars over my life.” “What does that mean?” I asked, my brows drawing together as I looked down at her hand between us and the heat of a furnace burning within her skin warmed me. “I cursed them,” she replied simply, like there was anything simple about that idea. “Each and every one of them. I cursed them and I swore to rip my fate from their clutches no matter the cost to me or my soul. I’ll see them burn, Caleb. And I’ll find him again in this life or the next before I’m done.”
My lips parted in denial of that insane claim, but there was something about the power of that vow which stopped any protest I may have made in its tracks and made me do something unthinkable instead. I took her scarred hand and placed it over my heart, against my bare skin, dropping my forehead to press against hers as I let her feel that unending grief in me too, let her feel how deeply I shared in her pain. “Then I offer myself to you,” I swore in a low and steady voice, whispering my next words because they felt so important. “In any way that I can be of service to you in fulfilling that
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WOW IM SOBBING
Tory released a shuddering breath and a single tear fell from her eye, rolling down her cheek before splashing against the back of her burning hot hand where it lay over my heart. “There isn’t a depth I won’t fall to for this,” she warned me, and I nodded. “Then I’m ready to fall at your side.”
OH MY FUCKING GOD I CANOT
I finally made it to my vault and stopped dead in my tracks, finding the carved-out shape of a Phoenix burned right through the centre of the door. Horror splintered through me as I stared at the impossibility of that reality. That door was impenetrable, both the metal itself and the spells I had used to seal it in place.
Take tha you fucking cunt
how she had bypassed the magic by destroying the centre of the door and how very easily she had managed this act of horror.
She'll beat you any day, you fuckwit
The shining gold which had lured me in so temptingly blazed brighter as I closed in on it and my blood itself began to boil as I took in the golden, shimmering words cast there on my wall and emblazoned with the fire of a Phoenix itself. Long live the motherfucking Queens.
HAHAHAH
She tittered to herself, but everyone else in the room stayed silent. If that was her idea of a joke, then it was no wonder the bitch had no friends.
I held Highspell’s stare. I wasn’t a fool. I wasn’t going to waste my breath on defiant outbursts which would only land me in detention, or worse. This game we were playing wasn’t worth risking for petty pride, so I dropped my eyes to the desk before me in what Highspell would assume was submission, or shame over my Order, or whatever the fuck else she cared to believe, and I bit down on my tongue so hard that it bled.
“Lionel killed Darius during the battle,” Gary breathed, and it was like the entire world fell still around me as I took in those words, trying to make sense of them. “You can’t be serious?” Bernice gasped as Gary hung his head like he couldn’t bear watching the truth of that declaration sink into us.
Darius and I had had our rift, but I had never stopped supporting him, or loving him as the true friend I had always been to him.
“The Vegas are more powerful than Lionel Acrux,” I said firmly, raising my voice as I looked around the gathered group. The Undercover A.S.S.
He was a good man despite the way his father raised him, and he gave his life fighting for the rights of all of us. I won’t disrespect that sacrifice by turning from his cause now.”
“Keep looking at me like that and we’ll end up doing something we swore we wouldn’t,” I murmured, my blood heating at the liquid brown of her eyes.
“Milton?” a girl shouted from beyond the door, and I stilled in horror as I recognised Marguerite Helebor’s voice. “You have to run!” she cried. “Mildred is on the hunt and she’s on your trail. I know you’re all in there, please, listen to me!”
DAMN
“The K.U.N.Ts are coming,” she hissed. “Run.” I had no idea why she was helping us, but the frantic panic in her eyes was more than enough to force me
“Why?” I asked as I backed into the gloom beyond the fire, Marguerite’s grief-stricken eyes meeting mine with a hollowness which gave me my answer before she even spoke the words. “Because I loved him,” she said simply. “And that bastard killed him. Now go.”
Oh she turned good?
I was left with one single thought in my mind: Marguerite Helebor had just risked everything to save us. So it looked like the Undercover A.S.S. had just bagged themselves a K.U.N.T.
Who would have thought
“Daughter of the flames,” it whispered to me,
And still, I wasn’t afraid.
“It is time for my release,” the star whispered within my head, soft and light like feathers against my temples. “What do you mean?” I asked,
“All stars fall. My time has come,” it said, and I swallowed against the lump in my throat. “I don’t understand,” I said, shaking my head in confusion.
“I remember now…” “What do you remember?” I whispered. “You are shadow cursed, a mortal you shall soon be.” I winced from those words, the pure certainty of them cutting me deep. “Is there a way to stop it?” “The fates are still being woven, thread by thread.”
“Clydinius wants you to keep the broken promise, warrior of the Vega line.”
I was on the cusp of grasping something, understanding the drive behind these fates and what it was all for, when the power evaporated, and I stumbled to my knees.
Girl you have to become the star i think?
Tears slid silently down my cheeks, and I lifted my hand to touch them, not knowing if they were of joy or sadness, or somewhere in between.
Girl thats your spiritual awakening
My pulse thundered in my ears as I thought of Tory and Lance and Gabriel, of the people who would never find me in this watery grave if I didn’t make it out.
Love can save everyone
I kicked harder, the determination to find them all again fuelling my muscles, and suddenly my head broke through the surface and I gasped down a crisp lungful of air.
Through love, all is possible
furnace of resilience igniting in me at the sight of this building which should have belonged to me and my sister.
I immediately tried to lunge at her, a shriek of hatred tearing from my throat, but she bound me in place with lashes of shadow, her head cocking to one side as she appraised me. “There is fire in you yet,” she commented. “I wonder how long you can hold onto it for.
at it before following her to the back exit from the throne room and down a corridor to a wide metal door. She unlocked it, guiding me inside and my world fell apart before my eyes, every ounce of oxygen in my lungs crushed from existence and leaving me desolate. “Lance!” I ran to him, my scream rending the air apart. He was on his knees, chained at the heart of the room while his hands were secured above his head by manacles. Blood raced down his flesh, dripping to the floor around him from lacerations across his body. I dropped down before him and gripped his face in my hands, desperate to
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OH MY GOD WILL THEY EVER FEEL PEACE
Terror made my heart thrash, but as he released a low groan and his eyes flickered open a crack, I buckled forward in relief, an agonised sob heaving from my chest.
MY BABIES
“Blue?” he murmured, only half conscious, his blood still running down into a circuit of drains around the chamber. “I’m here, I’ve got you.”
Omg
“He’s only got a few more moments of life in him,” Lavinia said in a mocking voice.
YOU FUCKING BITCH
“Hang on,” I begged, tugging furiously on that well of power in me again as I refused to submit to the curse, and for a second, I could have sworn there was a flicker of magic, blazing some of the shadows aside and promising Orion life.
“Lance, I’m here. Stay with me,” I called, my heart frenzied with fear, but it was like he couldn’t even hear me.
“Lance? What’s going on?” I begged, but he wouldn’t look at me. “Please,” he spoke to Lavinia quietly like I wasn’t even in the room, his voice a distant thing that sounded as though it had been dragged up from the depths of his chest. “Send her away from here.”
OH GOD PLEASE TELL ME SHES NOT GOING TODO THAT TO HIM
“It means he is mine,” she said, watching me closely and drinking in the moment my heart shattered within the cage of my chest.
Orion gave me a look that broke through the darkness in his eyes, filled with an apology that could never undo this, because it confirmed everything she had said, and broke my heart in turn.
I expected him to flinch away, to fight back against her abhorrent touch, but as she deepened that kiss and slid her tongue between his lips, I watched in a state of torturous shock as he let her, the only sign of his distress a crease on his brow and his hands balling into tight fists. Something twisted sharply in the centre of my stomach and malice took over everything I was down to the roots of my being, stealing away what little was left of my sanity.
Oh ny god
