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

by Caroline Peckham

She wanted me, nothing else. I didn’t think any girl had ever wanted that.

Since I’d met Elise, I’d been buying all kinds of fucking shit every time I had a new fantasy about her.

“This is how I feel around you every day. I want you so much it drives me insane,”

Suddenly I felt like a complete idiot. I had my fucking girl beneath me and I was ruining it because of that Oscura scum.

She moaned my name over and over and I pressed my fingers to her lips to feel it.

this felt terrifyingly intimate and yet really fucking good.

I swear for a second, I didn’t need pain or lust or any-fucking-thing anymore. I just needed her.

Some part of me owned Elise, and I planned on conquering every inch of her until the rest of her was mine too. No Fae in the world could stop me.

Gabriel was so possessive that it could be stifling at times and he clearly thought that whenever the stars called us together to become Elysian Mates, I’d forget all about the other Kings anyway.

Dante, Ryder and Leon all meant so much to me that the idea of just waking up one day with silver rings around my irises and zero desire to be anywhere near them just didn’t make sense.

And when all was said and done, maybe I wouldn’t survive long enough to find out what fate had had in mind for me anyway.

She’d abandoned me now that Gareth was gone. She didn’t even take my calls. So why had I put my life on hold for her?

“Che diavolo è successo, amore mio?”

“One more second with your mouth on mine and I’d have forgotten about the damn deal and given you all you could want of me and more, bella.”

“La vita è stata cattiva con te, amore mio,”

“I guess the stars must not think much of me to turn their backs on me so often, right?”

“Quindi sono sciocchi…

I was offering it all to all of them, though I still didn’t believe I was able to give them everything they deserved. I was a broken soul housed in a fractured shell.

And I need all of you. I need the light and the dark and the joy and pain. I can’t pick between you any more than I could reach inside myself and choose a piece of my soul to keep and others to destroy.”

“Posso accettarlo.

Godiamoci questa pace finché dura,”

“We all saw what you did to Dipper. You can dish it out, but you can’t take it.”

“You need to get your head outta your ass and realise what she needs or you’re gonna lose her entirely.”

We all lived our lives inside a tiny fucking box that everyone else in the kingdom ignored. But there was a whole world out there and rules we had to fucking abide to when they did pay us attention.

Sometimes she looked so sad it made me want to carve out my heart and swap it with hers so I could bear her pain for her.

But only one second, then it was gone because holy shit, I loved being friends with a Storm Dragon.

The chances of getting Ryder and Dante to share a lasagne would be impossible, let alone a girl.

There was no cool evidence of me going into the well, no nothing, but I didn’t care. Because I didn’t want anything to do with that place ever again.

Was I really going to sit here and start feeling sorry for myself over the fact that both of my parents had now chosen to walk out on me?

A library ban would be annoying, but I couldn’t let Laini pay that price right after finding out that her girlfriend had gone all pack whore on her.

“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.”

Everyone knows that Elysian Mates face tests before they’re given their Divine Moment and I won’t fail at this one. We’re destined to be together, my little angel. And I can wait for fate to make it so.”

“I’ve wanted you from the first moment I laid eyes on you,” I

making my whole body buzz with pleasure at the idea of him trusting me.

I took it all in with a warmth building in my heart.

He may not have been ready to accept sharing me, but if he thought for one moment that I cared for him any less than the others then he was wrong.

He thought that he had to wait for me to be his, but he was wrong. I already belonged to him heart and soul, and I was going to wait right here until he realised it.

Felix strolling into Aurora Academy and gutting me than herself.

“Mamma, he’s not going to attack me here. The FIB have to get involved with deaths on school grounds. He wouldn’t want the headache.”

“Everyone in our clan is hunting for him. We’ll get him, Mamma. Just hang in there.”

“Che le stelle ti proteggano,”

‘non mentire mai con il tuo cuore’.

Never lie with your heart.

I loved her, and I was going to continue loving her so long as my heart deemed fit. So that was all there was to it.

hunger rising in me so keenly I almost forgot everything just to steal the kiss I’d dreamed of a thousand times.

I could make her moan with nothing but my tongue tasting hers and she’d never want it to stop.

I just had to hope Ryder would lose interest and let me out of this deal. But if I knew that snake like I thought I did, he would stubbornly hold onto her for the rest of time even if it was just to spite me.

I realised he was biting all the main arteries in her body and my heart began to slow as she released a soft groan.

“Do you want me to be careful or do you want me to save her fucking life?” he snapped.

There was no way I was going to let her escape my wrath. And a Werewolf couldn’t outrun a Dragon.