Vicious Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #3)

by Caroline Peckham

“Words don’t mean anything. Anyone can promise me the moon, but I’ve never seen anyone pull it from the sky.”

I’m sorry, Gareth. I am so, fucking sorry.

This tattoo was for her. It didn’t need to be said. It was fucking obvious.

I wanted to bleed for Elise.

She’d had no right to know my past, but it almost felt like Elise already owned it.

“I won’t judge you,” she swore, painting a cross over her heart and the gesture meant everything to me. It was ours. It meant trust.

A tear slid down her cheek and I frowned, reaching up to rub it away. “Don’t cry for me, Elise. I’m not worth your tears.” “You’re worth every one of them,”

I eyed the black X across my chest with a swell of pride; I’d wear this mark for her.

“One day you’ll kill her,” she said as she drew away. “And I’ll stand at your side while you do it.”

“I’m thinking…that you helped me remember that I can feel more than the words painted on my knuckles.”

“I want you to feel everything, Ryder. The good, the bad. That’s what living is.”

“Noi siamo i tuoi schiavi, amore mio,”

“This is everything I’ve ever dreamed of with you and everything I ever feared at once,”

“I want both of you.”

“Non ho mai desiderato nessuno come te,”

“You’re everything I could ever want, bella,” Dante breathed. “You’re more than I ever could have imagined,” Ryder added. “Good,” I replied. “Because I’m never letting any of you go.”

“She might be able to feel your pain but that doesn’t change anything. It’s your strength that makes you who you are. It’s the way you survived and how you keep surviving that made me take notice of you. That’s the man I see when I look at you, or when I feel the scars which mark your flesh, not a victim, a survivor, a warrior, a fucking King.”

There couldn’t be a world without my Leo. I refused to believe that the sun would rise again without him to bathe in its rays. There was no good in a world that didn’t hold him, no light, no laughter, no joy at all.

“Ritorna da me, caro amico,”