Zodiac Academy Fated Throne - Caroline Peckham Page 0,93

was tight, clearly frustrated I’d failed once again. As much as I needed to continue trying to destroy the shadows in Darius, I despised the idea of hurting both him and Orion again. But what choice did I have?

I walked over and hugged Darius, thinking of Tory with everything inside me just hurting. It wasn’t only him I was letting down, it was her. I just wished I knew what to do.

Seth joined our hug, nuzzling into Darius and whimpering softly. “We’ll figure it out,” he said, and I wanted to believe that, I really fucking did. I just didn’t know what I was doing wrong so I could fix it.

Seth’s hand roamed down my back and fell onto my ass, squeezing as he pulled me and Darius closer.

“Er-” I started, but he was suddenly ripped away from me by a whip of air and thrown across the room. He flew over a chair, his foot catching on a vase and sending it crashing into a wall before he hit a window face first.

Gabriel lost his shit as he laughed, this clearly being the exact thing he’d seen before.

“What is your problem?” I rounded on Orion with a growl as Seth leapt up and cast two spears of wood in his hands.

“Come on then, asshole,” he snarled. “Bring it the fuck on.”

“Seth,” Darius warned as Orion bared his fangs at the Wolf.

I put myself between them and glared at Orion with my hands raised and shards of ice growing on my palms. “You wanna fight? Then you can have one.”

“I’m not fighting you,” Orion snarled, trying to side step me so he could aim at Seth, but I moved into his path again.

“If you’ve got something you want to say, then spit it out,” I demanded and Orion’s eyes flashed furiously as we just stared at each other.

Silence stretched between us and my breaths came unevenly as I waited for him to spill it. He looked like a predator on the hunt, but I wasn’t going to be his prey. Never. Again.

Orion dropped his hands, shaking his head and turning away from me with his shoulders dropping.

Gabriel stood up with a frown, his eyes shooting to the sliding doors that led out toward the pool. “Someone’s coming. We have to go.”

“Shit,” I cursed, running into the kitchenette with Gabriel and Seth.

I glanced back over my shoulder as Darius pressed a hand to Orion’s back and they shared a tense look which I didn’t understand.

“I’ll be back at school on Monday,” Darius said, throwing us a taut look.

“I have some ideas on how to remove the shadows, I’ll talk them over with Darius,” Orion said, like he was speaking to me but he didn’t look my way.

“Fine,” I said stiffly as Seth took my hand and pulled me down to unlock the hatch. There was a faint marking in the grain of the wood, but it was barely noticeable. It lit up as I touched it then we quickly slipped inside and pulled it shut, my chest tightening as we headed into the dark.

Seth squeezed my hand. “Forget him, babe.”

“He’s forgotten,” I said lightly like I wasn’t affected by seeing him again. But I was. And I knew I’d forget about Orion the same day the stars decided to give us all a break and blast Lionel to pieces with a flaming meteor.

Well, a girl can dream.

“Oh, by the light of the big, blue moon, a narwhale sang in the great lagoon. ‘I am but a fish in need of a kiss, and I tell you this as my dying wish.’”

“What song is that?” Angelica asked as I sang my dilly dally to the stars, offering it up to them in hopes of buying us some good fortune after a long day of classes.

It was dark out here between the trees and there was no one to hear us despite the silencing bubble I’d used to hide our passage.

“It’s nothing, dear Angelica,” I said. “Merely a ditty to appease the stars on this – the night of the great A.S.S. ramming.”

“Are you certain you want to stick with that name?” Angelica asked, that dubious tone to her voice which she kept using when I brought this up.

“Angelica, dear,” I began on a sigh. “Are we or are we not about to meet in a clandestine, Order mixing, law flouting, gathering of the biggest A.S.S.es you know?”

“Well, yes, but-”

“And are we, or are we not about to ram our truth down the

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