Dark Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #1)

by Caroline Peckham

I could do stuff. And things.

“Oh I do. I watched it pretty well as it slid into Elise’s mouth the other day actually.” I smirked. Elise stilled. Ryder blew a blood vessel somewhere in his body.

“Traitor,” I growled, though I kind of liked the idea of him and me taking her together. Like, just a little bit. Mostly I wanted her as mine though.

“So what will it be? A night in Psycho the Snake’s funhouse, a ride on a Dragon who threw you out a window, or a night with a mighty Lion who will bring you more chocolate before and after the ball.”

“The best of things move on swift and silent wings, look closely dear and you can have it all, but beware my love, for even angels fall...”

“Why are you crying?” he asked, his voice a dangerous growl. “Who hurt you?”

“To everyone else you’re like this perfect little doll, but I can see how fractured and torn apart you are inside,” he breathed. “I can see the cracks in the perfection. I can see the poison that’s tainting your essence. And every break, every scar and burn and fissure in your soul only makes it more beautiful. Only makes you more perfect to me. This pain is strength. This agony is beauty.”

“Is that a Basilisk thing?”

“No, baby. That’s an us thing.”

You should have left, carina. Now I’ll have to keep my eye on you.

Something she would probably never tell me about. But I could be here for her all the same.

and I could only wait, hoping he’d touch me, hoping he wouldn’t.

“When you finally give in to this waiting storm between us and agree to be mine, I’m gonna make you scream my name until you lose your voice,”

“Then maybe I wanna know what it’s like to run free with you.”

His blood was like my own brand of temptation, made for me and me alone.

turning away and she caught my hand again, confusing the fuck out of me.

“Well your father was a fucking idiot to give you up. If you were ever mine to protect, I’d keep you close and never let go.”

But the earth would still turn whether the moon was watching or not. Maybe she likes the company though.”

“It feels like being alone even with you here.”

“Maybe we can come here and be alone together sometimes.” “Alone together,” I echoed with a smile pulling at my mouth. “I like the sound of that, bella.”

Another, insanely imaginative part wanted him to come out and join us.

“You have no idea, bella. I’m the biggest asshole you’ve ever met.”

“Look a little closer, Dante, I’m not a nice girl. And being a Callisto was never a walk in the park either. Your father may have forged you into the man you are, but I built myself up into the woman I am. Each cut and every scar only toughened my skin. Every break and fracture only steeled my determination. And everything I’ve lost has only strengthened my soul. I won’t flinch at the worst of you because there is no best of me anymore.”

“All’s fair in love and war,”

“You don’t look pretty,” I growled and her expression slammed into bitch gear, but I didn’t give a shit. “You look like the most lethal poison I’ve ever seen. It’s fucking divine.”

Why does Dante Oscura have to matter?

It hurt to watch her leave. And maybe that was why I was so fucking obsessed with her. Everything about her made me suffer.

“There’s a student in your school I need gone. Dead. Buried. With no fucking traces back to me.”

ברור שזה יהיה אחד מהמיינס או איליס או גבריאל בדוק או אמג אולי אפילו דאנטה אמא

“Deal. Who is it you want dead?”

I wouldn’t be going to Ryder’s room tonight.

אנחנו נראה לגבי זה

Lunar or Oscura. Ryder or Dante. I refused to pick either. But in the darkest corner of my heart, I wished I could have both.

I didn’t want or need any man who thought he could place rules upon me.

He caught my waist and I inhaled sharply half a second before his lips captured mine.

דאמנ

“When I’ve got you pinned beneath me and you’re screaming my name,”

אמאאאאאאאא

“Hi,” I breathed as he pinned me in his gaze. “You...splendi più luminosa di tutte le stelle del cielo, bella,” he said with a smile that made my stomach do a backflip even though I didn’t know what it meant.

פאק

I had no desire to ditch Leon for Dante. Though if they were willing to share then I wouldn’t have objected to that idea at all.

I opened my hand and my worst nightmare was confirmed as I recognised the crystal I’d stolen from him. The one Petri had pawned for me so I could pay Old Sal.

הא שיט

It was childish and stupid and us. I just hoped she liked it.

“They call it The Weeping Well actually, but I think I like murder hole better.”

She was the most mouth-watering prey I’d ever encountered and if I had to hunt her to the ends of the world to catch her, I would.