Sorrow and Starlight (Zodiac Academy, #8)

by Caroline Peckham

“Your soul is bound to mine,” I breathed against his mouth, even though I knew he was no longer there to hear my words, but a dark and unknown energy seemed to stir the air itself at that vow. “And I won’t rest until I make every star in the heavens fall for trying to cleave us apart.”

“Nothing in this world could break me the way you can, Gerry,” I admitted roughly. “Nothing could make me falter or blink other than the need to protect you. I can’t watch them lash you to this thing with us. It would rip the last pieces of me free of my body and destroy them more certainly than anything else.”

I couldn’t allow for any other fate. Not for her. She was my everything.

“Ergh!” I slammed the skull down on a rock, then again and again and again, pieces of bone shattering beneath the force. “Double, triple, quadruple die, you devil dick,” I snarled through my teeth.

“Get away from my mate, you creepy-crawly son of a bitch!” I cried.