Edin (Monstrous, #2)

by Lily Mayne

Don’t worry, human.” He shot me a wide, fanged grin. “I think you’re pretty.”

“The Bible, this religious text, has the Garden of Eden in it, where the first humans lived. It was a paradise. The devil was the evil guy who got the humans to give in to temptation, so they got kicked out.” Edin chuckled. “Sounds like me.” He shot me a wolfish grin.

I eyed his tail, which was flicking irritably, its dagger-like tip swiping dangerously close to me. I couldn’t tell if he was doing it on purpose or not, and I narrowed my eyes at his broad, bare back with suspicion. “Watch the tail.”

He shot me a wolfish grin. “You can call me whatever you want, human.” His voice was a low rumble, somehow intensely intimate. My breath caught, and I felt my throat bob as I swallowed. I saw his big eyes track the movement before he turned to face forward again.

“Not that I’m complaining,” I said. “I’ll be happy if I never have to set foot in those fuckin’ tunnels again.” Edin chuckled. “Yes, it’s nice to be out of them.” He shot me a smirk. “Although now you won’t be able to stare at my ass all day as we walk.”

“I’ve wanted to fuck you since the first moment I saw you, josdo,” he said, and my heart started to pound harder in my chest. “Josdo?” I repeated, trying to pronounce it just how he had—joz-doh. My voice was hoarse. “What does that mean?” Edin grinned wide, fangs glinting as he leaned forward. “It means ‘morsel’, human. Because that day we met, when I told you I didn’t want to eat you…” He leaned even closer to nuzzle my ear, making a pleasant shiver run up my spine. “…I lied.”

Edin bared his fangs at Wyn over my shoulder. “Mind your fucking business, Wyn. I don’t meddle in your affairs.” “What?” Wyn’s creepy voice was incredulous. “You meddle in my affairs all the time, you—” “This isn’t helping,” Danny snapped, and I shot him a grateful look. “Edin is clearly going to help Hunter, so there’s no point arguing about it. Hunter didn’t know Edin would get hurt, Wyn. He obviously didn’t want him to. Stop being over-protective.”

“I will be sad when you leave, josdo,” Edin eventually said into the darkness, his voice rumbling through the mattress and into my bones. My throat went tight. Fuck. Why that? Why did he have to say that? “I…” My voice shook. “I’ll be sad to leave you too, scratch,” I got out hoarsely.

“I like you being jealous, josdo,” Edin murmured low in my ear, making the back of my neck prickle with awareness. I flushed with embarrassment. “She called you big boy,” I grunted. “I was doing you a favour.”

“Once we’ve gotten Charlie back, I’m going to fuck you so hard you’ll forget your own name.” He leaned back and patted my chest once. “So don’t worry, josdo.” He grinned wolfishly at me. “I’ll be saving all my energy for that.”

“I wish we had some privacy,” he said, then looked back at me. “I want to kiss you badly, my Hunter.”

so I could still see the word Wyn had carved into his chest with painstaking precision. MONSTER.

“I won’t leave, Hunter,” Edin told me, voice so deep I felt it in my belly. “I will be here as long as you want me.”

“You are beautiful, josdo,” he told me in a rumbling voice as he handed it to me. “You make my cock so hard.”

“You humans are so prudish.” He stopped beside me and gestured at his dick. “It’s just a cock, human. Just like yours.” He placed his hands on his hips and leaned forward a little, baring his teeth at Charlie in a rabid, unfriendly grin. “Except much, much bigger.”

“You need to get fucked good and hard, human, if you interpreted those sounds as pain.” Charlie’s horrified eyes met mine. Welp, my best friend now knew what I sounded like when I was getting railed to within an inch of my life. My face flared with heat. Holy shit, this was getting way out of hand.

“He is mine, human,” Edin snarled, taking a step forward. “I am his, he is mine. Not yours. Yes? Do you understand?”

“The only thing I’ll miss is Charlie,” I told him. “But he understands. And I… it’s not about giving anything up, scratch. With you, I’ve… I’ve gained something more than I ever thought I’d have.” I stepped closer, until our chests pressed together, dislodging Edin’s hands when I buried my face in the base of his neck. I slid my hands around him and gripped the flanks of muscle framing his spine. “You’re what I’m not willing to give up.”

“Everything about you is sexy, my Hunter,” he murmured when he reached my face, before he kissed me hard.

was knowing that the pain of losing him, when it did happen, was worth the time that would precede it. Because it would happen; I would outlive him, as much as the thought filled me with bone-crushing despair. But in some ways, I felt like that knowledge made me love him even more.

“But yes. I love you enough to stay out here.” He tightened his arms around my neck. “There’s nowhere I’d rather be.”