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

by Caroline Peckham

“I can see how sad you are even when you aren’t crying,” he breathed. “You don’t have to hide your tears from me.”

I sucked in a sharp breath at the casual way he referred to my whole fucking world burning down around me. The hole which had been punched through my chest when my brother had been stolen from me was raw and bleeding.

All I’d wanted was to be alone. To let an inch of this agony loose in the privacy of my room before I had to try and contain it again.

Maybe I had a death wish. Or maybe something had shattered inside me when Gareth had been killed and I was left with a void in my chest where fear should have lived.

“I know, carina. But the earth would still turn whether the moon was watching or not. Maybe she likes the company though.”

And maybe that was why I was so fucking obsessed with her. Everything about her made me suffer. And I was a glutton for it.

Because I was so tired of all the lies I’d been telling since coming here. The smile Leon put on my face was one of the most honest things I’d experienced in far too long. And I intended to spend as much time smiling with him as I could.

I was so sick that I knew it would kill me. This grief was a cancer, slowly eating away at everything I used to be.