Warrior Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #5)

by Caroline Peckham

Our faces were disguised as twisted lion heads and I smirked at the jagged scar running across one of Ryder’s eyes. This would have been the best moment of my life on any other day of the year.

“Calm down Gabby,” I said and his eyes narrowed on me with murder in them. “Watch it, or I’ll start calling you Dragonella,”

All of our faces were disguised in twisted masks which were freaking Lion King characters. Leon was Simba, Ryder Scar and Gabriel Zazu. One snort from Leon told me mine was a fucking joke and he mouthed the word Pumba to me.

Leon started pushing himself along the floor like some sort of demented seal, his arms dragging at his sides and his knees bending and pushing him along as his cheek grazed the floorboards. He peeked up at Gabriel as he made it to the coffee table and Dante kicked him as he stuck his ass in the air.

“And then I showed you that website where you can buy tiny hats for tiny snakes and bought a whole range for you to cheer you up, and I almost smiled about it, but then I remembered Elise was gone and-” “I was fucking there,” I barked. “And if you put a tiny hat near me in any of my snake forms, I will shift into my biggest form and eat you whole. That isn’t a threat, that is a promise.”

The stars really were testing my faith in these dipshits today.

"Sei il mio mondo, amore mio."

“Fine. Look Gabe-riel, I’m a Lion. And you can call a duck a horse, but it still quacks and has a beak.”

Leon Night: @EugeneDipper just went Rambo on @FerdinandFerkins who allegedly shoved Eugene up his ass in rat form, making him the first rat on the poon. The #poostranaut was defeated that day only to come back now and rise up as the official #backdoorconquistador he has longed to be ever since. Watch Eugene take down his bigassed nemesis right here. #Ferdtheturd #challengedtoapoo-ual #feararatinyourrear #paybackfromtheasscrack

“See that endless horizon?” I purred in Elise’s ear and she nodded, a breathy noise escaping her as I pulled her tighter against my chest. “That’s how far my love goes for you, baby. On and on into fucking eternity.”

“Leo…” Elise said in exasperation. “It’s Dante’s medallion, you’re overreacting.” “Overreacting?” he gasped, grabbing the coffee table and throwing it across the room where it smashed against a wall. “How am I overreacting?!”

"I am a psycho, baby," he growled. "And unlike your other boyfriends with their moral high grounds and lines they refuse to cross, I want you to know that there isn't any depth I wouldn't sink to for you. I'm willing to trade my soul for you. I'd do anything to anyone. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking I wouldn't. So if it takes a sacrifice to find your brother and heal that hurt I feel in your heart then consider it done. No matter the cost, I'll pay it. Even if I have to cut my own throat and bleed out at your feet, I'd die happy knowing it had been for you."

"I love you, Gabriel," I mumbled, turning my head to seek out his lips and he gave them to me with a low growl. "You'd better. Because there's no way in hell that I'm ever letting you go."

“Oh man, I just realised it’s gonna mess up how I remember which tattoo you have on which hand.” “What do you mean?” Elise asked with a frown. “Lefty lusty, righty fighty,” I said like it was obvious. Which it was, duh.

I was so ready. Readier than a lubed up whore.

I forward rolled out of the bush and sprang to my feet, swinging a punch at a freshman. They screamed and ran for their life and I chased after them a few paces with a roar. No one can predict me, I’m a wild man.

Well you know what I’m gonna do with that silver spoon that you were born with in your mouth, Captain Trellis? I’m gonna shove it up your ass.

“He’s not my boyfriend,” I scoffed and Scarlett looked over at me with a smirk. “He’s my boyfriend-in-law.”

"Non potrei vivere in un mondo senza di te, amore mio,”

"I love you, baby," he said. "And when I thought I was going to die today, the only thing in this world I cared about losing was you. I didn't want to be in an afterlife without you there. I didn't want to exist in darkness alone, pining for you. I spent too long in the dark before I found you. And I don't ever want to step back into it again."

But I do love you with the entirety of my heart and there isn’t a force in this world which could change that.

If I’m destined for someone else, let them wait forever, because I’m never going to leave your side, Elise.”

My heart surely would be ripped out, left here with her. It couldn’t exist anywhere without her now. I dragged my fingers along her cheek as darkness descended on me, the stars shining blindingly bright in my periphery. But I didn’t want to look at them, the only goddess in this world I wanted to gaze at was right in front of me. And I’d look at her until I could look no more.

“I want you to know… I didn’t need the silver rings in my eyes to love you with everything that I am or ever could be, angel,”

And I knew in the depths of my soul that I would love this girl until there was nothing left of us but stardust and memories. I’d follow her through life, through the good, the bad, and eventually, I’d follow her into the sky.

Leonidas Night. King of the pitch. Lord of balls.