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February 11 - February 15, 2025
“Words don’t mean anything. Anyone can promise me the moon, but I’ve never seen anyone pull it from the sky.”
“One day you’ll kill her,” she said as she drew away. “And I’ll stand at your side while you do it.”
I needed to kill someone. Most likely that piece of shit Mufasa. Then Inferno. Then the peacock.
“Che diavolo è successo, amore mio?” Dante’s panicked voice came to me in my fog of pain a moment before his hand met with the flesh of my back. I cried out again as he pushed healing magic beneath my skin, and slowly the agony retreated until all I was left with was the scent of smoke and the aching emptiness within me where my magic should have been.
“Posso accettarlo. I don’t want to cage you, amore mio. If this is who you are then this is who I want you to be. So long as you’re all in with me then I can be all in with you too, on whatever terms you need.”
“Well, you may not trust me, bella. But I trust you. You gave it back. Godiamoci questa pace finché dura,” Dante said, his fingers resuming their trail across my skin. I wasn’t sure what that meant, but I wasn’t going to argue either. I let my eyes fall shut as I listened to the steady thump of his heartbeat beneath my ear. Had Dante Oscura seriously just told me he loved me? And why the hell didn’t that feel as terrifying as it should have?
the plane collided with the side of Ryder’s face and landed on his shoulder. Whoops. He slowly lifted a hand, grabbing the plane with a snarl. He unfolded the page and a furious noise left him as he scrunched it up in his fist. I whipped up Dante’s textbook, opening it and standing it on its side before Ryder looked this way. I ducked my head behind the book as I fell apart with laughter and Dante joined me behind it, laughing loudly. “Did you see his face?” I snorted. “Stupido serpente,” he laughed.
“I’ve decided to give you what you’ve been begging for, Scar,” Leon teased. “We are all going to watch The Lion King.” “For fuck’s sake,” Ryder muttered and I couldn’t help but laugh. “C’mon, you know you love it. No one could reference it as much as you do without having it committed to memory,” Leon teased as he moved to grab a couple of beers.
“The Lion has exceptionally good hearing,” Leon called from the back of the room. “And if you care about our girl as much as you should then you should want to make her happy. Which means becoming the Nala to my Simba.” “Nala ends up married to Simba. I don’t know what kind of fantasies you’ve been having about me, but I can assure you that outcome is not in your future,” Ryder said. “I knew you loved this movie,” Leon called triumphantly. “Do you need a tissue for when Mufasa dies or do you just let the tears flow free?”
Leon cut the tension by belting out the opening track at the top of his lungs, getting most of the words wrong aside from yelling the chorus so loud that we couldn’t hear the movie. I laughed as I leaned into him, slapping a hand over his mouth to quiet him again, but he only sang louder as he fought me off. I scrambled to pin him down and he growled at me in a way that made a tingle run down my spine before catching my waist and tossing me into Ryder’s lap.
“I’d have you shift back into your Dragon form, then I’d oil myself up and slide all over your scales naked. I’m really into Dragon dick…”
My brow pinch and I turned to look at her in surprise. “Well I guess er...I suppose maybe we could try-” “Ha – your face!” She slapped me on the back then jumped to her feet and leapt into a rowing boat that was bobbing in the water. “I can’t believe you bought that. I’m no Cindy Poo.”
“That’s why you should give her to me,” I said as barbed wire coiled around my heart. “She’s the closest thing to family I’ve had in a long time.”
“Well I can’t do that, Ryder, because she’s my family too,” Dante said possessively. “I’ve already fallen for her, even if I was stupid enough to give her up for your sake. It’s too late for me to back out on this, so maybe you should find someone else to be your family if that’s what you want.” I gritted my jaw, saying nothing. I wouldn’t dare breathe a word of the feelings surfacing inside me, spilling into everything that I was. Because little did he know, it was too late for me too.
Sono così eccitato da te che fa male. Riesco a malapena a trattenermi dal cadere a pezzi per te.”
“Wake up!” I dove on top of Dante in his bed and he choked out a breath as I crushed him. I kissed him straight on the lips then smacked him across the cheek. “We’re leaving in thirty minutes, dude! Get up!”
I ran forward and his eyes widened in alarm as I crashed into him, dragging him into a bone-crushing hug. Lance Orion was the best fucking Airsentry in all of the academies. He was tipped to be picked up by the Solarian Pitball League after he graduated. He might play for the fucking Skylarks one day. And I’d met him. I ran my tongue up one side of his face. And I’d licked him too. Which made him mine. “By the stars.” He tried to shove me off, but I held on tight, swivelling around and holding my camera up high to snap a picture of us together. His Vampire fangs had popped out and I almost
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“Thank you for the best day of my life. And I’m sorry about my hard on.”
She tip-toed up, brushing her lips over mine in that feather-light almost kiss that drove me to madness. “Can you taste cherries?” she breathed against my mouth. “No.” I brushed a lock of hair behind her ear. “I can taste my own soul, because it’s the exact same flavour as yours.”
“What’s the deal with you guys?” Orion asked instead of challenging me, his gaze skipping between the others and landing on me like he couldn’t figure it out. “If you were a Wolf pack I’d get it, but…” “We’re not a pack,” Leon said, waving a hand dismissively. “We’re a pride. But instead of a King with a bunch of lionesses we have a Queen with a bunch of Lions.” “I’m not a fucking Lion,” Ryder disagreed. “You are. You’re Scar, Dante’s Mufasa and I’m Simba and Gabe is…Zazu.” “Don’t call me Gabe,” Gabriel snapped. “And Elise isn’t your fucking Queen, she’s my Elysian Mate.”
“No one’s taking any of you away from me,” I growled possessively. “Even the stars aren’t allowed a say in that. And if they try, I’ll beat their asses too.”
“Sei più bella del sole,” I breathed in awe. “You look like the angel you are, Elise,” Gabriel said. “Fuck me on a toadstool,” Leon sighed. “You look gorgeous, little monster.” Ryder made a strained noise, sweeping a hand over his closely cropped hair. She blushed as she gazed between us all. “Oh thanks.”
“Cosa farei senza di te, amore mio?” he purred, his mouth dropping to my neck where he brushed his nose across the sensitive skin beneath my ear.
“Noi siamo i tuoi schiavi, amore mio,” Dante purred. But before I could ask what that meant, they both pushed two fingers inside me.
“Non ho mai desiderato nessuno come te,” Dante said and I bit my lip as I wondered what he was saying.
“Sarei stato tuo in un'altra vita, amore mio,” he said to me in a rough voice and though I had no idea what it meant it sounded horribly like he was letting me go.
