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Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine.
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Because I couldn’t keep away from her, that much was becoming abundantly clear. So I’d just have to keep being her villain.
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Because you’re in my head all the time. You pulse through my blood with each beat of my heart. I live for every scrap of attention you offer me and suffer through every moment you spend ignoring me,” he said darkly, holding my eye the entire time.
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Good. Because I’m not a better man,” he said in a low growl, his eyes full of shadows. “I’m the devil and I want you. I want you like I’ve never wanted anything or anyone. And I will fight to make you mine, no matter what it takes. No force in Solaria will rip us apart.
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I don’t want you on your knees. I want you fighting me and hating me and fucking me like you mean it. You’re Roxanya Vega and you weren’t built to bow to anyone,” he growled passionately. “You want me to hate you?” I asked in surprise. “I want you to feel for me. And I’ll take hate if that’s all you’re offering.
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You’re what I latch onto to bring me back from the shadows.
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She is so…everything. Does she know how everything she is?
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The next time you want to drown in them, tell me about it.” “Why?” “Because if you’re going to drown then I’m going to drown with you.
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I’m gonna prove to you that I’m the better choice. You’ll fall for me so hard you’ll break bones.
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So this crystal is a promise from me that I’m yours. For now. Forever. Or till it all goes to shit, I don’t know which yet.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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He loved me. Lance Orion loved me. And I loved him back with every corner of my heart and all the spaces in between.
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Blue.” I smiled dreamily, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear. She is so…everything. Does she know how everything she is?
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So what?” I snapped. “So I won’t let you ignore me, Roxy,” he snarled. “I’ll have your attention even if I have to take it without your permission.” “Why?” I demanded. “Why not just go after someone else?” “Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine.
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Because I’m not ever going to put my life on hold for a man. Especially one who doesn’t think I’m good enough to make the cut long term.
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YOU ALL PASSED THE RECKONING. THE STARS MUST BE FUCKING WITH ME.
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You’re going to be the ruin of me,” Darius growled in my ear and I pushed myself back just enough to look down at him. “Not if you destroy me first,” I breathed in response
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What I’d give for the whole world to freeze right now so I could steal a kiss.
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I’d rather be sobbing with sorrow, screaming in fear, laughing until I was breathless or riding the very edge of a high than just keeping to the middle path.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Blue. I’m one hundred percent a lunatic for you. And I don’t give a damn.
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So maybe it was time we stopped denying our birth right. Because the Vegas had been born to rule. And I was sick of being forced to bow.
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I’ll never bow to you,” I breathed as the cold stone at the foot of the throne bit into my skin. “But if you like me on my knees then there are better things that I can do down here than kiss your feet.
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You don’t have a fucking sex addiction,” Darius snarled. “Don’t I?” she asked innocently. “What other possible reason would I have for screwing so many waste of space assholes?” Her gaze flicked from him to me for a moment and I straightened my spine.
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Roxy laughed and my heart leapt at the sound of me making her happy.
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Fuck you,” she snarled, pointing right into Seth’s face before aiming her finger at me. “And fuck you.” She turned to point at Darius last. “And fuck you up the ass with a rusty spoon.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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The thing I feared most in life was boredom. I didn’t want to live an easy life, I wanted to blaze through an adventurous one and I’d choose to burn out entirely before I’d let myself whither in emptiness.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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You will soon realise that all plans are futile. The only ones that matter are written in the stars.
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You can deny it as much as you like, Roxy, but you and me are going to happen over and over," he promised, the scent of him wrapping around me and the heat of his flesh blazing so fiercely I could feel it despite the inch of space diving us. "So no matter how much you hate me or despise me or wish you didn't want me in any way at all, there's no stopping it. You don't feel fire like that and just let it burn out.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Yeah. It takes you by surprise, eats you up, spits you out and keeps you begging for more every single day. And once the bond was sealed between us…I feel like my whole fucking world begins and ends with her. I’ll never get enough, the ache in me will never be satisfied. It’s the best feeling in the world.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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You usually just get lumped with whatever emotion your subconscious wants to kick you in the teeth with on any given day. Look at me for example, every day I go to bed deciding to wake up perky and peppy, making friends with everyone and anyone I meet. And yet when the morning swings around, I’m still the same mean bitch I was last night.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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And fear shackles you just as easily as chains if you let it. So do your worst… or don’t. I can’t control what you choose to do, but I can choose what I do.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Love," I breathed simply. Because what else even really mattered in this world?
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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What is it with you and cutting people’s balls off?” Orion’s brows
pulled together. “Just go for the jugular, you savage.”
Tory cracked a smile and the two of them beamed at each other like good friends. It felt freaking amazing to see them looking at each other like that.
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What’s it like?” I asked curiously. “Finding your one true love?” Gabriel’s gaze softened as he thought about the girl who owned his heart and he smiled as he answered. “Like, getting hit with a truck and having it back over you several times while you lay bleeding in the dirt.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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That girl had bigger balls than half
the guys I knew. Max practically started crying if we made him take a shot of Sourache and Seth howled the whole time its effects were in place. Roxy barely broke a sweat and came out swinging on the other end of it.
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I think it’s time for us to accept who we are. We’re the lost Vega Princesses, Heirs to our own throne and the most powerful assholes in the whole of Solaria. And I think it’s time we stop letting other people tell us what that means and deciding it for ourselves.
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His muscles bulged from the workout, the Phoenix and Dragon tattoos which danced with each other on his back gleaming with sweat.
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Yes! Let’s cook us a Dragon,
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Neither do I,” he growled. “But when I see you, all I want is to lay claim to you. I want you to be mine and I know you never will be and it’s making me even more fucked up than I was to begin with. That’s why I hate you. Not because I’m supposed to or because my father wants me to, but because you represent every freedom I’ve never been given. It’s like you were designed entirely to taunt me and toy with me and crack me open and I won’t let it stand.
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Because we’re the same you and me. Both fucked up, broken pieces on a game board that’s bigger than we can cope with. Both hoping to find some way of winning despite the odds being stacked against us all the damn time. Both addicted to things that push our boundaries and make us feel alive. Because at the end of the day, even feeling the worst of things is better than feeling nothing at all.
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So I won’t let you ignore me, Roxy,” he snarled. “I’ll have your attention even if I have to take it without your permission.” “Why?” I demanded. “Why not just go after someone else?” “Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I got that he hadn’t found the whole Pegasus thing funny, but the issue I had with that was that he was wrong. That shit was funny. Stupid funny. And he needed to stop pouting like a little bitch about it and learn to laugh at himself from time to time.
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That he does my bubbakanoosh,” Hamish said, nodding firmly. “You remember what your Momma always said to do with men like that though, don’t you?” “Cut off their fingers then their dingers,” they said in unison and I snorted a laugh, sharing a look with Tory.
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Do you have any idea how much I want her? How much it feels like I need her sometimes? It's like she's burrowed her way beneath my flesh and taken root in the depths of my soul. I hunger for her and ache for her and for the briefest moment, it felt like mabye she felt the same. Like all the anger and hatred between us had just been covering up everything else we desired. Like just maybe I could have something good like that, something pure and honest and just...mine.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I wonder if he keeps a ruler in his drawer he could teach me a lesson with…
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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He was still all the things I hated about him but he was also my own personal brand of hell. And I’d been sinning for a long time, waiting for him to punish me.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I heard Lavinia speaking to me softly, “It’s over, Princess. Give in to the shadows, they’ve already won.
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Caroline Peckham (Sorrow and Starlight (Zodiac Academy, #8))
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I think I just fell in love with Geraldine Grus,
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Dedication in all things usually pays off at some point,
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What if I asked you to be mine. Just mine?
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I’m not in love. I’m just…in trouble.” “Same thing,” he pointed out and I smirked.
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Mi abuela speaks to me through it too,” Diego said. “She gave every part of her soul to ensure each member of my family would be bonded together through the garments she made.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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There’s only one reason that makes sense to me, but I could be wrong. Maybe I fear I’m wrong too.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Our magic is enough. We’ve fought battles together, we can take on the shadows too.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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This was a Divine Moment.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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snoopy snooperson, I have a throne room to impregnate.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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He does not need to feel my boner. Not again.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I think the stars picked you for me,
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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We’re all just spirits dancing in an endless sea of stars.
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like my own personal brand of heroin.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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The stars owe you everything.” Orion’s eyes glimmered with that thought.
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We’ve got responsibilities when all I want is freedom.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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And more than that, he was my Nebular Ally.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Did you just call your vagina Lady Petunia?” I choked.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I think she said. ‘I wish I could tell you.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Did you just call your vagina Lady Petunia?
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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My Lady Petunia set her gaze on a rather virile Siren and he fell prey to her amorous adventures.” Angelica spat out a mouthful of coffee as a bark of laughter fell from my lips. “Did you just call your vagina Lady Petunia?” I choked. Darcy covered her mouth to hold back her laughter and Sofia was actually crying real tears. “Alas I did. And she’s a real predator when she sets her gaze on a tempting piece of banana drama,” Geraldine admitted.
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A snowman,” he said brightly, walking forward, lifting his huge
snowball up again.
“Darius,” Caleb warned. “Don’t you d-”
Darius planted the huge ball of snow over his head and I fell apart with laughter, dropping down to the ground as I clutched my side.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Roxy Vega was the piece of me that was missing. She was everything I should have realised I needed sooner. If we hadn’t gotten so caught up in hating each other, we could have already had something to build the foundation of this on. But none of that mattered. Because from this day on, I’d be hers and she’d be mine. And I’d do everything and anything it took to prove to her that I could be worthy of her love.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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My Lady Petunia set her gaze on a rather virile Siren and he fell prey to her amorous adventures.” Angelica spat out a mouthful of coffee as a bark of laughter fell from my lips. “Did you just call your vagina Lady Petunia?” I choked. Darcy covered her mouth to hold back her laughter and Sofia was actually crying real tears. “Alas I did. And she’s a real predator when she sets her gaze on a tempting piece of banana drama,
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Darius yanked me back by my hair so that he could look me in the eye and he swiped a thumb across my mouth where my red lipstick had been smudged. “I don’t want you on your knees. I want you fighting me and hating me and fucking me like you mean it. You’re Roxanya Vega and you weren’t built to bow to anyone,” he growled passionately. “You want me to hate you?” I asked in surprise. “I want you to feel for me. And I’ll take hate if that’s all you’re offering.” He kissed me again and this time I didn’t hesitate as I kissed him back, my hands finding his shirt buttons as I began to yank them open.
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Darcy is everything to me,” he breathed. “She’s all I think about and all I want. I see so much good in her and she somehow brings out the best in me. And if you feel that you can’t keep this secret for us or like you have to tell the authorities about what’s going on between us, then I understand. Because you want to protect her as fiercely as I do. But even if we’re torn apart, even if I went to Darkmore Penitentiary and had to live out the rest of my days behind bars, I’d never regret a moment of it. Because my life was empty before I loved her. And parting us won’t change the way I feel for her.
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Good. Because I’m not a better man,” he said in a low growl, his eyes
full of shadows. “I’m the devil and I want you. I want you like I’ve never wanted anything or anyone. And I will fight to make you mine, no matter what it takes. No force in Solaria will rip us apart.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Post velamentum autem amo ducere. Tolle eas Solaria, tolle eas in domum suam. Detrahet me in eos!
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Diego straightened in his chair, his gaze sharpening as he stared at me, his lips parting like he’d noticed the dark magic which came alive with my anger.
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I would never bow to him, but he could have me on my knees.
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They’re not like him and you know it,” I growled. “Are you like your father, Darius? Do you judge yourself by the standards he set?
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Oh lighten up, Darius. If you can’t laugh at yourself from time to time then you’re going to end up spending a lot of your life taking offence over things that really don’t matter.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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It would be as if there was a Dragon shaped fart in the room and I just had to avoid getting too close to sniff it.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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You’re a fine one to talk about being late. Besides, sir, as this lesson doesn’t make it onto the official syllabus I’m not inclined to give a shit,
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I can’t stop, Blue. I know it’s fucking insane. But I’ve stopped caring about the consequences. This thing between us gets stronger every day and I can’t fight it…can you?” I inhaled at his words, the pounding of my pulse all I could hear in the pause that passed between us. The answer was obvious. It would be almost impossible to let go. It was as if the stars themselves were pressing me into his arms, holding me there and refusing to let go.
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Happy birthday, Lance,” she whispered and for the first time in fucking years, it really was a happy one.
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So what you’re saying is, our power is endless?” Tory asked, grinning in a way that was only going to piss Darius off. “As in, so long as I can cast fire, I’ll never run out of magic. Unlike big fat lizard shifters who have to pop off for a snooze on a heap of gold whenever they’re running low?
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I didn’t know what the future held, but I hoped the heavens were on our side. I really didn’t want to regret the decision I’d made, but it hadn’t even really been an option to call things off. We were in too deep with each other and the universe seemed to be conspiring to keep us that way. I just hoped that meant the stars were on our side and would help keep this secret from ever coming out.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Lady Petunia had her taste of forbidden fruit, but I’ll be guiding her towards safer pastures in the future.
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Max! Max! His hair’s so shiny. It’s just a shame his dick’s so tiny!
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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That sex was fucking mind blowing.” “Yes, yes, you were perfectly adequate,
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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So you’re saying that this big ass lizard can’t burn me at all, but I can totally cook his ass if I want to?” Tory asked with a smirk as she pointed at Darius.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I’m not going to stand here discussing how many breadsticks I’ve dipped in my honeypot since yours, Max Rigel. It’s none of your business.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Plan away, Miss Vega. You will soon realise that all plans are futile. The only ones that matter are written in the stars.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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And where in the name of Frangelica the fifth are your eyebrows? Did they sprout legs and run away from the frightful fish boy who grew them? I mean, I could hardly blame them.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Like all the anger and hatred between us had just been covering up everything else we desired. Like just maybe I could have something good like that, something pure and honest and just…mine.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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On the darkest day and longest night, I’ll guide you home with love so bright,
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Our Princesses were lost for far too long. But now you’re home and the Kingdom of Solaria is rejoicing as our most powerful line is restored. The Fae world is built on a foundation of strength and power. And now we have our most powerful family back. There may be those who wish to keep you down or see you fall, but the true Queens are rising. The line of Vega is intact once more. And when you seize full control of your destiny, even the stars won’t be prepared for the might you possess.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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You can deny it as much as you like, Roxy, but you and me are going to happen over and over,” he promised, the scent of him wrapping around me and the heat of his flesh blazing so fiercely I could feel it despite the inch of space dividing us. “So no matter how much you hate me or despise me or wish you didn’t want me in any way at all, there’s no stopping it. You don’t feel fire like that and just let it burn out.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I mean, like the way I lie awake at night, remembering what it felt like to hold you in my arms. How still the world felt, how pure that moment was between us. How I imagine I can still smell your perfume as my eyes fall closed and how I reach across my bed in the night wishing you were really there. Or like the way my heart beats harder when you walk into a room and my throat thickens when I try to think of the right things to say to you. How I fight to get your attention in any way I can because I can’t bear it when you ignore me.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I could have fingered those pages all day.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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I don’t want to stay away,” I whispered, because I knew it was impossible for me to. I felt bound to him like the stars had wrapped golden thread around us and refused to let us go. In the very root of my bones, I knew we belonged together. “Good. Because I’m not a better man,” he said in a low growl, his eyes full of shadows. “I’m the devil and I want you. I want you like I’ve never wanted anything or anyone. And I will fight to make you mine, no matter what it takes. No force in Solaria will rip us apart.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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Do you have any idea how much I want her? How much it feels like I need her sometimes? It’s like she’s burrowed her way beneath my flesh and taken root in the depths of my soul. I hunger for her and ache for her and for the briefest moment, it felt like maybe she felt the same. Like all the anger and hatred between us had just been covering up everything else we desired. Like just maybe I could have something good like that, something pure and honest and just…mine.
”
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))
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My Lady Petunia set her gaze on a rather virile Siren and he fell prey to her amorous adventures.
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Caroline Peckham (Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4))