Sorrow and Starlight (Zodiac Academy, #8)

by Caroline Peckham

For he was my one true salmon, and the rivers of our destiny were wide and flowing toward an eternal horizon.

Long live the motherfucking Queens.

“Listen to me, Blue. I loved you when your soul shone with all the starlight in the night sky, and I’ll love you now when your soul is the blackest you’ve ever known. I will love you whole and I’ll love you in pieces. It doesn’t matter, light or dark, I am here. That is what mates are for. It’s what I’m made to be for you by the stars themselves,

My twin was my other half. My brother my wings of guidance. My mate my soul-bound love.

“By the stars, you drive me crazy. I love you, Gerry,”

The man I had chosen for myself, despite every reason I’d had to reject him, despite the stars pushing and pulling at us, despite the Veil which had closed between us. He was mine and I was his and I had come here to return him to my side.

She was mine, my one good thing, the keeper of my heart and the shackles surrounding my soul.

“You’re Darius Vega now. And you weren’t built to bow to anyone.”

“I love you, Roxanya Vega, and I wish I could have been worthy of you.”

The thump of Darius’s heartbeat rang out in perfect synchronicity with my own because it was my own. One heart. One life. Never to be parted again.