Zodiac Academy 4: Shadow Princess: An Academy Bully Romance (Supernatural Bullies and Beasts)

I’d asked the students who were housed in the rooms closest to her dorm to keep an eye on her and report anything strange back to me. A few of them had told me she woke up in the night screaming pretty regularly. But when I’d tried to ask her about that, she’d taken it as some kind of attack and had just started placing a silencing bubble around her room every night so that no one would be able to hear her scream anymore. I knew because I often walked to her door in the middle of the night and pressed my hand to it, reaching out with my own magic until it brushed against hers and reassured me that she was okay. Or if not okay, then at least alive.

“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.

. “I had that model fired.”
“What?” I asked with a frown.
“The one in that photo shoot with you. The one it looked like you really did screw.”
“Wow. You’re insane,” I said harshly. “That poor guy probably really needed that job.”
“He didn’t need to take his work so fucking seriously,” Darius growled.