Zodiac Academy Fated Throne - Caroline Peckham Page 0,234

in mine. But you’re gonna be an Omega in the bedroom if you don’t get laid multiple times. And preferably before you try it on with a girl you actually like.”

Maybe he had a point. But I also couldn’t see myself wanting any other girl. There was just something about Sofia. And whenever I saw her in Tyler’s arms I wanted to force him beneath me and take her away from him. Make her want me instead. But what if Hadley was right? What if I managed to take her then had no fucking clue what to do with her body? Oh shit, I could mess up everything. What if I accidentally put it in her butt?

“Let’s just go,” I muttered, moving to get on his back.

“I’m gonna run at my top speed,” Hadley warned as he climbed out of the window and stood on the small ledge beyond it. The three floor drop below made my gut swoop, but I was more than used to heights by now. “Ready?”

“Ready,” I said with a smirk then he leapt forward, plummeting through the air before softening the earth to break his fall and charging off across campus.

The world became a blur around me and I laughed at the rush rocketing through my blood. This was insane.

A thrill buzzed in every piece of my flesh before he jerked to a halt on the north side of the Pitball stadium, stumbled down a hill and we went crashing into the mud. I neighed a laugh as he rolled, pushing himself to his feet and looking down at himself in horror.

“Fuck,” he hissed.

“It’s okay, I got you.” I leapt up, moving toward him. “I learned a cleaning spell this week.” I reached out, starting to syphon the mud off of his clothes and his eyes widened hopefully. “Who are you trying to impress anyway?” I taunted as he fixed his hair and his muscles bunched.

“No one. But we’re not gonna get laid looking like shit,” he growled pissily. His hot head went off more times a day then I could count, but I’d lived my whole life under the roof of the angriest Dragon in Solaria, so it was nothing I couldn’t handle.

“Right, that’s why you look ready to break someone’s neck,” I commented with a sideways grin and he shrugged, his scowl in place to stay.

I finished getting the mud off of us and we headed up to the metal door in the tall wall of the stadium. I rapped my knuckles against it, my heart cantering in my chest as we waited for an answer.

A slot whipped open in the centre of it and two bright eyes peered out. “Speak your names!” Geraldine cried.

“Xavier Acrux,” I said.

“Hadley Altair.”

“You’re not on the list, away with you heathens,” she hissed.

“Agent Foxy sent us,” I said quickly and her eyes narrowed.

She finally stepped back and flicked her fingers through the slot. A spell hit me in the chest the same time it hit Hadley and we were forced back a step by the strength of it. A chill ran along my skin and I shivered.

“What was that?” I demanded.

“It unveils any illusion you may have been disguising yourselves under,” Geraldine explained. “You have passed the test. Come hither!” The door flew open and Geraldine stood there in lacy mask that covered the top half of her face and a flowing bubblegum pink gown which clung tightly to her figure. “Oh my dear Xavier.” She pulled me into a tight hug, squeezing me tight. “I am overjoyed that you have joined us at last.”

“Thanks,” I said as she released me and I gave her a bright smile. When I got a chance later, I was going to get her alone to ask about my mom, but I couldn’t risk saying anything right now.

Hadley pulled the door closed behind us and I gazed down the long corridor, nothing but silence meeting my ears. Where the hell was everybody?

“You’re the last ones in,” Geraldine said, stepping forward and casting a spell on the door which I guessed was to lock it. “You’ll need these.” She plucked a couple of masks from between her breasts and passed us one each. “I am utterly aggrieved that we can’t all dress up in our most outrageous costumes, but the A.S.S. committee agreed it wasn’t worth the risk of getting caught out and about across campus in our frillies tonight.” She sighed heavily. “Our identities must all remain hidden to protect each