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

by Caroline Peckham

Shroud,”

“Dark magic is different to Elemental magic,” Orion said in a low tone, his eyes glimmering. “It’s made of shadow and it wants to be free.”

More of the Black Card flashed into existence via stardust and my throat tightened at the sight. If they had access to that, they could move around the city with ease.

I was his kid sister, his avenging monster and his little angel all in

each of them leaned in to press a kiss to my lips before they headed off to take up their own positions. Leon just grasped my fingers in his for a moment before stalking away from me, but that was even better than a kiss. It was a start.

Eugene Dipper.

They asked if he wanted to die and my heart crumbled a little as Eugene squeaked out a terrified no.

“Wake up you stupid peacock,” I demanded. “If you die here, Elise will have my balls for it.”

gasped as the Shroud did nothing to stop it, and I knew this was King’s true Elemental magic.

“Get up, Elise,” she called. “You’re going to want to run.”

stream of tarot cards then a pair of fiery wings that twisted up into the sky.

then two dark haired twin girls clutching hands at the bottom of a darkened pit.

I gasped in horror as I spotted the lifeless eyes of a corpse staring up at me from the mud a few feet away.

stared into the dead eyes of the boy I’d seen murdered in the woods a few months ago.

I looked down at my feet, the orange glow of my Faelight revealing limbs and bones all around me. I was in a fucking tomb. A tomb filled with King’s victims.

me and tried to focus so that I could lift myself out of here with air magic but as I called on my power, I found it almost entirely gone.

corner ahead of me, screaming with desperation as it spotted me. I took in a curtain of filthy white hair, eyes filled with an aching hunger and fangs as sharp as mine before I shot away again with a scream of fear.

“I never told anyone this before, but Gareth went down there once. He said he saw something. A monster.”

scream.”

“It’s how the door is opened,”

A vampire. A motherfucking, half starved, half crazed, deep in the bloodlust and far beyond sanity, Vampire.

Fingernails scraped down my spine and I screamed as I leapt forward.

The Vampire behind me shrieked in response to the light and I chanced a look over my shoulder as he recoiled.

One which I recognised from Gareth’s journal. I could only pass through it without any magic in my body.

If he stole the last of my magic then I’d be able to pass through and he wouldn’t. I just had to hope that I’d be able to fight him off before he ripped my fucking throat out.

An agony ripped through my core so sharp and pure that I was sure my soul was tearing in two. It felt like the world was caving in and the sky was falling down on my head.

Leon tumbled out of sight with a roar

A shriek of terror left my lips and with a snarl of pure, animal rage, I snapped the vines containing me.

“Leon!” I cried, panic and fear clawing its way through my chest and snaring my heart in iron talons.

The silence which sat in the space that should have held his next heartbeat destroyed

something in me and I felt it fracture with a bolt of grief which crippled me.

Then all I could see was Leon, his blood spreading beneath him as he lay lifeless on the cold cave floor because of me.

A sob tore free of my chest as my gaze slid to Gabriel who lay to my left, his black wings broken and glistening with far too much blood. And to Dante who had managed to rip the vines from his throat, but was now battling a hundred more as Nightshade directed them to destroy him.

It was my fault Gabriel was dying. It was my fault Leon was dead. It was all my fault…

looked at Leon, his eyes closed with a finality so severe it cut me in two.

tore my eyes away from him with a sob of agony, searching the cavern for someone I could save.

But now that that future had almost been stolen, all I could think was that we hadn’t even had our time. We’d never even had a chance. And I wasn’t going to let it go now.

Leon had offered himself to me wholeheartedly, unconditionally, honestly and I’d broken his trust with lies and deceit.

grief struck a chord in my heart that would ring on forever.

Surely the stars wouldn’t dare take such a bright light from this world?

amore standing beside Gabriel like the world was falling down around her.

but his brow was taut and I wondered if it was possible that the Lunar King had felt something for Leon Night.

Leon had always been a brother to me. Mio fratello leone.

My mind went hazy and I blinked, suddenly finding myself half way up the stairs with Dante still at my side.

Another blink and I found myself above ground in The Iron Wood, staring up at the sky between the branches, my jaw going slack. There was something pulsing through the air, wrapping around the essence of my being and begging me to answer its call.

I didn’t know where my feet were leading me but there wasn’t a force of nature which would keep me from my destination.

Something was whispering sweet promises in my ears and the taste on the air held the sweetest scent of destiny.

He strode toward Elise but a powerful energy burst out around us and he, Dante and Ryder were thrown away to the ground.

The night sky was rearranging itself just for us.

This was our Divine Moment. The stars had decided to bring us together as Elysian Mates tonight of all nights.