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“Get your paws off my girl,” Dante joked and I rolled my eyes. “I’m not yours,” I said, feeling like a broken record. “Yeah, asshole,” Leon agreed as he moved to my other side and threw his arm around me as well. “She’s mine too.” “I’m really not,” I said but they both ignored me, drawing me back across the pitch to the rest of the team while both keeping hold of me.
“Un amico che diventa nemico è il nemico più crudele di tutti.” “W-what does that mean?” he breathed, his blue eyes round with fear. “It means, a friend who becomes an enemy is the cruellest enemy of all.”
I liked Elise, damn well hungered for her. But Mamma had taught me to tieni il tuo cuore vicino alla tua famiglia – keep your heart with the family. The moment I gave it away, I was in trouble. I could be manipulated, deceived, tricked. And as the future leader of the Oscura Clan, I had to do everything I could to protect myself.
But the earth would still turn whether the moon was watching or not. Maybe she likes the company though.”
“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.”
“If you were mine, I’d protect you from everything the world ever had to throw at you,”
I wasn’t really sure how Leon managed to spark joy in me like that so easily. When he wasn’t around, I didn’t really feel like there was anything like that left in me at all. Like I wasn’t capable of feeling anything but grief and pain and loss. But every now and then, Leon dug right through it all without even seeming to try. He made me feel joy and light and laughter and I just wanted to drink it all in and never let it go.
“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.”
“Beautiful. Stunning. Breath-taking.”
This was torture. Pure and simple. And not because of the pain – that was bliss – but because she’d denied me once more. Shut me down. Told me no. I’d laid out my black and wasted heart for her and she’d rejected it. Again. In hindsight, that should have been fucking predictable. But I’d made my choice. I’d told her where I’d be tonight. So she had approximately six more hours to change her mind.
“Temptation is irrelevant if your will is strong enough, Ryder. And mine’s made of iron. So no matter how tempted I am…”
“I won’t cave.”
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.
“Hi,” I breathed as he pinned me in his gaze. “You...splendi più luminosa di tutte le stelle del cielo, bella,”
He was like joy personified.
So I let myself fall under his spell just a little. 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.
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. I’d chase her tail until she gave me all of her. Every last, delicious bite. And by the end of tonight, I was going to have consumed her.
“Gabriel?” I breathed, blinking several times to see if his face was going to change or not. “I’ve got you,” he replied,
