Savage Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #2)

by Caroline Peckham

“Good. I don’t need you in my life anyway.” She sped away and something shattered inside me like glass. I grunted as pain spilled through me, filling up my magic reserves. I was ruined and made at once.

:'(

“I ran into a bit of trouble this morning on my way back,” I admitted. “What kind of trouble? And where have you been?” There was real concern in his eyes and for a moment all I wanted to do was soak myself in it. Bathe in the feeling of his protection and just let him look after me the way he kept asking to.

“Let me look after you, Elise,” he breathed in my ear and goosebumps rose along my flesh as his stubble grazed my neck. “Just this once,” I agreed with a faint smile because I felt like shit and that sounded like heaven.

omggg :')

I broke our kiss and looked into his golden eyes as he ran a fingertip down my spine, making me arch into him with a shiver of pleasure.

hehehe

Ryder smirked at me. “Are you worried you’ll kill me, baby, or more concerned you won’t?”

He mirrored the darkest pieces of my soul and sometimes that terrified me but in that moment, I just wanted to drown in the darkness which bound us to each other.

I felt like hell, but he looked at me like I was something precious.

“I’ve lost more people than I can count and my heart holds so many scars that sometimes I wonder how it manages to beat at all,” Dante breathed.

:(

The stars will draw you together and make you answer to the question of fate. When that happens and you make a choice not to be together, you’ll be star-crossed,” he breathed the term like it was a death sentence. “If you think you’re miserable now, you’re wrong. Being star-crossed would break both of your hearts. You could never be together, the stars would drag you apart if you ever tried to change your minds, but they’ll make you long for each other forever. They would never let either of you love anyone else.” His grip tightened. “You might be willing to shoulder that fate, but would you really place it on the girl you’re bonded to?”

I’d made a decision, one which made me happier than I’d ever been. One that shook the foundations of my soul and sent light pouring through my body.

as you should!!

I’d lay it all out for her, bare my heart and get down on my knees if that was what it took.

real. men who yearn, earn.

“Fuck you Gabriel,” I hissed. “If you wanted to help me you’d give me the truth about what happened between you and my brother not fake promises of help. If you wanted to help then you should have done so when Gareth needed you. But I guess you only help girls you have bullshit visions about. Although you really shouldn’t worry about being my Elysian Mate. Because I’d rather be star-crossed than stuck with you for the rest of my life.” I shot away from him before he could respond, taking the fire escape off of the roof and heading for our room and my bunk. He didn’t follow me. And for some reason, that hurt even more than his lies.

:'(

Then she threaded her fingers between mine and my heart stopped pumping blood for a full second.

How much I wanted to tear into her flesh and bury myself in her body until she fell to ruin.

“Mi fai sentire vivo.” You make me feel alive.

Then she lurched forward, wrapping herself around me and coming apart in my arms. Tears rolled down my chest and I gasped, holding her tighter. As far as I knew, she didn’t show weakness to anyone but me and now she was letting me see it once again. Letting me in enough to crumble right in front of me.

:')

“Tears don’t make you weak, my little angel,” I said and more tears fell as I called her that name like it meant something to her. “It’s brave to cry over what you’ve lost. It means you feel it, it means it meant something, and it means you don’t shy away from those emotions even when they hurt the most.”

double :')

She was the sun and I was the moon, the two of us forever cycling through night and day as we tried to evade one another, but eternally chasing the other too.

“You should never think of yourself as not good enough, Leo,” I breathed, cupping his cheek in my hands. “You’re one of the best people I know.”