Zodiac Academy Fated Throne - Caroline Peckham Page 0,84

in and holding my arm tight around his chest as we ignored the ridiculousness of this and just fucking snuggled.

“Okay. Then you have to tell me about the assholes who hurt you in that place so that I can go in and kill them with my bare hands,” I replied.

“Maybe we should focus on your father first?” he suggested with a dark chuckle.

“Fine,” I agreed. “But then I’m going down there to kick some ass.”

“You’re so protective of me, sweetheart,” he joked.

“Always, baby,” I agreed with a laugh and I held him tighter as I began filling him in on everything I’d had to hold back on when I came to visit him.

Things might still have been pretty fucked up, but now that I had him back again, I had to wonder if the stars might finally be on our side for once.

I stood in the shower, washing my hair and definitely not thinking about Orion. I wasn’t thinking about his dark eyes, or him in that prison jumpsuit and the way his muscles filled it out, the way he’d drank me in like he was a dying animal thirsting for water. Yeah, I definitely wasn’t thinking about any of those things as I lathered the soap over my breasts then ran it down my belly, dipping it between my thighs.

A breathy moan escaped me which I tried to swallow because shit, I was not thinking about him and his hard cock sliding in–

“Hey babe!” Seth called, bursting into the bathroom and I screamed in alarm, dropping the soap, stepping on it and sending myself flying as it slid hard under my foot. I caught myself with a gust of air before I bashed my head on the glass and Seth whipped the door open, holding out a towel.

“Get out of here!” I shrieked, snatching the towel, unsure what he’d seen or heard, but none of it was good.

I wrapped the towel around myself as he grinned at me, bouncing up and down like an excitable puppy.

“What the hell, you crazy mutt?” I snapped, raising my hands and casting a storm of air between my fingers.

“I have news,” he said excitedly, practically panting as he weaved back and forth in front of me. “I didn’t get to talk to you about it before and I’ve been dying, babe, dying.”

“So you broke into my room and strolled into my bathroom while the shower was running?” I narrowed my eyes at him and he nodded a little guiltily with a whine.

“Yeah but, it’s not like I saw anything. Apart from your ass, and your tits, and that soap you dropped. But I didn’t see what you were doing with it.”

“I wasn’t doing anything with it,” I balked, throwing a gust of air at him that forced him to stumble out of the bathroom. I advanced on him, forcing him back again and again as heat rose in my cheeks.

“Sure.” He smirked. “On a completely unrelated note, when was the last time you got laid?”

“That’s none of your business,” I growled, my cheeks growing hot.

“So, Orion?” he guessed with a pitying look.

I snarled, throwing another blast of air at him that launched him onto the bed and he laughed mockingly.

“I can get you laid, just say the word. Do you know how many guys have a crush on you at this academy?” he said, pushing himself upright and making himself comfy against my pillows.

I didn’t like how confronting his words suddenly were. I knew there was a reason I hadn’t dated anyone else since Orion and I refused to face it. So in favour of not having this conversation, I decided to move it the hell on to something else. Nope, I am not poking that hornet’s nest.

“What did you come here to tell me?” I asked, moving to the mirror and working to dry my hair with my magic while Seth gave me a grin in the reflection.

“I fucked Caleb,” he said and I spun around with a gasp, all of my anger tumbling away.

“What? Seriously?”

“Well, no,” he backtracked. “But I did fuck a girl with him and there was a lot of eye-fucking between us. Like a lot.”

It was practically the only good news I’d had in like ever and I was going to lap it up and forget about all the bad crap for a bit. I moved to the bed and knelt on the end of it, smiling at him and soaking in the happiness pouring from him. “Tell