Zodiac Academy Fated Throne - Caroline Peckham Page 0,131

fuck’s sake,” Hadley snarled, smoothing his dark hair back and pushing himself up. “Just give me a taste, Athena.” He was practically salivating and I didn’t like that thirsty glint in his eye.

“Nah,” she said lightly, moving over and sitting down beside me.

“Hold onto her, Xavier,” Hadley growled and I scoffed, casting a ring of wooden spikes to grow up around us.

“I can’t be bought, dude,” I said with a smirk and Hadley huffed, dropping down to sit beside Grayson and eyeing his throat like he was considering changing his mind and fighting him for a drink instead.

“Wouldn’t do it, bro,” Grayson said casually, his eyes still on his Atlas. “My Wolf’s almost as big as Seth’s now.”

“I’m stronger though,” Hadley said with a smirk, then dropped down beside him with a sigh. “But you’re just not the snack I want.”

Grayson nuzzled his head, leaving a wet lick on his temple. “Don’t be too butt hurt, she’ll never let you bite her. It freaks her out.”

“It doesn’t freak me out,” Athena tsked. “I just hate being used by parasites.”

“Parasite?” Hadley spat, sitting up straight and glaring at her.

She shrugged innocently, twirling a lock of dark purple hair around her finger. “That’s what you are. It’s like that venomous twat Highspell said in Cardinal Magic, you’re one of the parasitic Orders.”

“You’re asking for it,” Hadley warned, jumping up and raising a hand, casting a wooden club in it and smashing my wooden spikes to shit.

Athena sat there, watching him batter a path toward her before he bumped up against her air shield again.

She smirked tauntingly. “Now what, Altair? Or should I call you Alspare?” she purred.

He whacked his club against her shield and she scowled at him as he started using his Order strength to beat the hell out of it.

“Open up,” he snapped and she started laughing.

“Never!” she cried, jumping to her feet and starting to strip off. Hadley gazed up at her, the club hanging loose in his hand as he watched her with his jaw ticking. When she was down to her underwear, revealing the tattoo of a half moon over her hip, she leapt over his head. She shifted into her huge black and grey Wolf form which kinda looked like a giant husky and sprinted out of the cave. Hadley took chase with the speed of his Order, spitting curses as he went. I laughed and Grayson howled his encouragement to Athena as he pushed himself upright.

Grayson looked to me with a smile. “So, did you understand anything Professor Zenith said about star bonds ‘cause my mind is fucking blown. I don’t ever wanna be cursed with that shit. Why would I give up having ten girls fight to suck my dick every night for one chick only?”

He’d built a pack solely of fangirls within a couple of weeks of being here and they all followed him around like needy puppies. It hadn’t exactly slipped my attention that all of the other spares were getting laid regularly and I was pretty much avoiding any attention cast my way. At this rate, I was probably going to be a thirty-year-old virgin with a couple of house cats for company. Oh no wait, I was more likely going to be married off to some crusty crouton faced witch I had to produce Dragon heirs with. Oh fuck, that can’t be my first time. I’ve got to sort this out.

The problem was, the only girl I wanted was taken. And now I’d joined her herd, her boyfriend was officially my Dom. And he made a point of keeping me under his hooves at all times. He was also a good guy, which just made it more frustrating. But I still couldn’t help looking at Sofia. She’d been my one good thing before I’d come here, and now I was at Zodiac Academy which was the most incredible place ever and she was still the best thing in my life.

“I think we have the opposite problems,” I told Grayson and his eyebrows arched.

He folded his muscular arms around his legs, scooting closer to me with intrigue in his eyes. “Who is she?”

“A girl I can’t have,” I said, flicking my hair out of my eyes. It was growing kinda long, but I hadn’t cut it since Sofia had pushed her fingers into it the other week and told me it made me look like a real stallion.

“Spill it, Acrux, I want all the details because I’m pretty sure my heart