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

by Caroline Peckham

My Ryder wasn’t the same man as the one the rest of the world got. My Ryder was just for me. And I knew that I didn’t have to fear him using anything I said against me.

get that this is who you are. But who I am is possessive. And I want to possess you. Not as an object, Elise, like a demon. So does that factor in to your little arrangement, or am I meant to agree to your terms only? Because it seems like everyone else in this arrangement is getting what they want from you. Do I not get the same courtesy?”

“I don’t really care what you’d do with a good girl, Ryder, but I’d like to know what you’d do with a bad one.”

Elise leaned up with a playful smile, pressing her mouth to mine and I swear for a second, I didn’t need pain or lust or any-fucking-thing anymore. I just needed her.

My fingers moved to kiss a pair of flaming Phoenixes who were flying together with a Harpy over his hip.

I didn’t think there was anything in this world which could frighten me. But I’d just discovered my biggest fucking phobia ever. Losing her.

Just two fucking idiots about to get our cocks out…

I must have died.

“You have me,” Ryder and Dante growled at the exact same time and my lips parted as I looked between them and they turned to glare at each other.

But if that made my little monster happy, then I was more than okay with Dante, Gabriel and Ryder being my little lionesses. Better not tell them that if I want to keep my teeth though.

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.

“Thank you for the best day of my life. And I’m sorry about my hard on.”

I must not enjoy this.

“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.”

“I’m not a fucking Lion,” Ryder disagreed. “You are. You’re Scar, Dante’s Mufasa and I’m Simba and Gabe is…Zazu.”

DEAD.

Orion’s eyes whipped to Ryder. “I don’t know much about Basilisks, but you don’t strike me as the live and let love type. More the I’ve pissed on it so it’s mine type.”

I rolled my eyes. “I don’t fit into the standard Vampire cutout. So what?” I challenged. “They’re all mine.”

“Mine,” I growled.

“Mine,” I growled possessively, claiming each and every one of them in the same breath.

“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.

Orion.

Yes x1..

Darius

Yesx2..

Max Rigel

Yes x3..

Seth Capella,

Yes x4.

Caleb Altair

Yes x 5.

And I should have been too. Except all I could think about was the fact that Elise had ripped my heart out, thrown it in a blender and made a smoothie out of it to share with her other boyfriends.

He landed a solid punch to my gut, but not before I punched his damn beautiful face.

“Sure, baby,” I lied. Because fuck if anyone was going to make me dance. Even her.

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

“But you’re both too stubborn for that, aren’t you?”

“I was just thinking you’re too much of a pussy to go through with it.” “I’m not a fucking pussy,” I snarled.

“One night only,” the words spilled from my mouth before I could stop them. I didn’t even feel like myself right then. It felt like I’d lost my fucking mind over this girl.

It was just possible that one of my dirtiest, most forbidden fantasies lay waiting for me on the other side of this door.

The idea of having Dante and Ryder together was practically blasphemy.

I pulled the door wide and there they stood, shoulder to shoulder, towering over me and exuding the kind of auras that nice girls ran from.

“And you’re his too.” “Yes,” I gasped as something broke apart inside me at that admission.

“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.”

“Because I’m not some soldier in this war. I’m your goddamn commander, your ruler, your fucking queen. So we will stick to the plan the way that I laid it out and you’ll all listen to me when I give you commands, or you might as well fuck off back to your dorms right now. This isn’t a negotiation. We’re here because of my brother. And we’re doing this my way.”

“Fuck, he’s right.” Leon stood up straight and puffed out his chest. “Do it again.”

“I love you!” Elise’s pained cry reached me in the darkness of my mind. “I love you Ryder! You’re mine and I’m yours.”

“Shift back you ten ton pussy cat,”

The fuss they were making over me meant I’d definitely almost badassed my way outta this life, and shit if I wasn’t over the moon about staying here. Solidly alive.

I know you love me, Rydikins. Your secret is out.

Did Gabe like me? Definitely did. Which meant I’d just won the Elise’s Harem Boys Bingo.

My little monster and me bound together for all eternity.

YES