Edin (Monstrous, #2)

by Lily Mayne

my best friend Charlie’s

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

You seem more like a predator than other humans I’ve met.

The Danny shade lmao

“You look just like the devil in this weird old book my grandma had when I was a kid. She’d read it to me to try and get me to say my prayers before bed. They called him ‘Old Scratch’ in it. The devil, I mean.”

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.”

Was Edin seriously saying that the monsters were actually just… excited tourists?

My blood pressure was spiking again. This monster was going to age me by twenty years, I swore to god. If I had a heart attack before saving Charlie, I’d use my last dying breath to somehow take this annoying, overbearing purple dude down with me.

Besides, there are obvious signs.” He waved an imperious hand around at the field and road. I looked again. There were no obvious signs. Whatever.

“Humans can’t regrow missing limbs,”

Aw he learned that from Danny

I realised he’d used his tail to grab it. Huh. So the thing was prehensile. That was… weird.

...Is that gonna be a sex thing?

“He’s slaughtered thousands of innocent humans.” To my total shock, Edin actually rolled his eyes. “I always forget humans think that.”

“I assume that means you don’t believe me, but it is not… bool-sheet.

Cutie pie

Speak first, think and regret later. Ask for forgiveness if I cared enough.

Wyn the Soul Eater—that creepy ghoulish monster with a hidden face and blackened fingers—was protecting humans?

“I thought you were dead,” Charlie hissed. His bound hands reached between the bars and grabbed the front of my shirt. “I cried, you asshole!”

“Can’t imagine you getting captured by anything.” Edin grunted. “You’d be surprised.”

Oof

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.

HOT

I gave the back of his head a look so salty he surely felt it. I’d never heard a less useful piece of information.

Hunter's internal monologue is so sassy

“Although now you won’t be able to stare at my ass all day as we walk.” I choked on a breath, cheeks getting hot even as I glared at him. At least the lower half of my face was covered behind my mask. “In your dreams, scratch.” “Mm.” His big eyes gleamed as he side-eyed me. “Yes.”

Edin didn’t hide anything. He was like an open book, but one written in a language I’d only just started to learn.

But a tiny little kernel of affection was growing in my gut for the big annoying monster.

“Or is this just an excuse for you to stare at my ass.” I wasn’t sure what made me say it, but my stomach lurched with anticipation when I did. Edin just chuckled. “I don’t need an excuse to do that, human. But I would appreciate a look at it while you’re not wearing pants.”

I envied Edin not needing food or water or sleep. It sounded amazing. The amount of shit I’d be able to get done if I didn’t have to fuckin’ sleep

Relatable

I’d never seen a human and monster be… romantic. I didn’t think it was possible. Well, at least I hadn’t before. Before meeting Edin.

It was almost comforting to know that other humans were attracted to monsters, too.

Edin was just a big lovable teddy bear. With fangs. And horns. And a long prehensile tail with a very sharp tip.

“How are you, Danny?” A flash of white fangs as he grinned. “My favourite human.” I couldn’t help but feel somewhat offended, and I knew it showed on my face because Danny glanced at me and grinned crookedly.

“This person is important to you? Are they—what, family? Your lover?” My face flushed hot, and for some reason it felt vitally important to clarify immediately. “No. Not my—Charlie’s not my lover.”

For some reason

“Okay, so let’s work out a plan to get Charlie back from the… those things.”

Danny is me

“If this human is important to you, Edin—” “Hunter is,” Edin said. “So that means Charlie is.”

“Take one on the other side of the building, Edin,” Wyn repeated in a threatening tone. Edin snorted with laughter, and Danny’s face went even pinker. “I—um, if you really want to stay in that one…” “They’re not staying in that one,” Wyn interrupted bluntly.

“Also, I have extremely good hearing.” Edin’s tone was carefully light, but… loaded. My entire body tensed up. “Much, much better than most other beings.”

Edin had heard me jerk off. And I’d been jerking off over him.

Edin grinning at Danny’s handsome face. Calling him his favourite human.

:(

why did I even care if Danny was his favourite human, and not me, even after everything?

“And what will I get if I win?” Wyn called. Danny made an impatient noise, getting back into position. “Come on, you know I’m a sure thing anyway, baby,” he yelled back.

Danny and the Soul Eater had caused that easily tempted part of my brain to take over. To whisper: Look, it is possible! Look, someone else wants a monster too. That means you’re allowed.

I wanted him. I wanted to touch all that hot, smooth skin that was always on view, always fucking tempting me. I wanted to hear that impossibly deep voice groaning out with pleasure. I wanted to fuck Edin.

I’d only just met Danny, but he was… nice. He seemed like a sweet guy. Harmless.

My baby

“Want to fuck?”

“Yes, Hunter. I do.”

“I’ve wanted to fuck you since the first moment I saw you, josdo,”

“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.”

HOT

“I want to run my tongue over every inch of your beautiful body,” Edin rumbled. He made a low sound. “You’re so much bigger and stronger than other humans I’ve seen. I want to touch you all over.”

I was self-conscious about the scar on my face, and the stump beneath my left knee, but I was proud as shit of everything in between.

“You have a nice big cock.” I coughed out a short laugh, lips curving up into a grin. Edin stilled, staring at me. “You are even more handsome when you smile like that, josdo,”

“Look at you, josdo.” His hot hand squeezed my inner thigh, forcing it wider. “Desperate for it. You need to come, don’t you?”

“Imagine if your superior officers could see you now. Spread out naked while you suck a monster’s cock. Practically begging to have it inside you.”

Edin’s touch had managed to make me devolve into some… mindless, cock-hungry animal. I’d never acted like that before in my life. That needy. That desperate.

my slow descent into a debilitating addiction to Edin’s big purple cock.