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October 19 - October 19, 2025
“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.”
But there was only one Lion for me and I was more than happy with that choice.
“She just strolled right into my life like some kind of goddess of chaos,” Leon said, his eyes on me.
“I keep forgetting how big you Lions get when you shift,” I teased as I relaxed back into my seat. “Pfft, I’m bigger than him,” Leon joked. “Hell yeah you are,” I agreed and his eyes sparkled as he looked my way for a moment.
“No one gets to make my Leo frown,”
“Fuck, if you say that again, I think I’ll come already,” Leon growled.
“The part where you called me yours,”
“Shit, little monster, you’re so beautiful,”
“Less talking, more doing,”
“Leon,”
“Say it, little monster,”
“Tell me I’m yours,” he demanded. “Ah, fuck, yes,” I gasped as he slammed into me again. “You’re mine, Leon. Mine.”
“You’re a savage, little monster,” he joked.
“He deserves it,” I said defiantly. “No one hurts my Leo and gets away with it.”
Leon Night was becoming my new addiction. He was joy and laughter and sunshine and even though I couldn’t offer him the world, I decided not to overthink offering him anything else. He accepted me the way I was and wanted me even more for it. So if a broken girl was good enough for him then I wouldn’t fight it. Because I needed some joy in my life like a starving man
needed meals. And I planned on gorging myself on him for as long as I could with whatever time I could steal with him.
“You’re fucking the Lion King,” I snarled, my chest tightening as flashes of heat hit my skin.
“Not since-” I stole the air from that sentence, anger pounding through me at almost saying something so fucking stupid. Because why hadn’t I screwed anyone since I’d met Elise? It didn’t make any fucking sense. She wasn’t mine. And now I’d made that deal with Inferno, she couldn’t be mine. And meanwhile, I got fucking blue balls and for what? So she could go off screwing Lions and skipping about school giving no shits who that hurt?
She trailed her fingers lower and my cock twitched desperately, practically full mast already. If I did fuck her, I’d last about five shitting seconds right now. Real impressive.
“Did he make you come?”
“Ryder…” “Just answer me,”
I’m going to fuck Leon out of your memory. You won’t remember your name let alone his.”
“I’m beginning to think you torment me on purpose,”
“You do make me happy, Ryder.”
wish I could show you how much.”
I couldn’t erase the grin tugging at my mouth and decided I might as well admit the obvious truth to Elise. “You make me feel happy too, Elise. Forget pain or lust. Just happy. Are you going to tattoo it on my dick or am I?” She laughed again, leaning into me. “That would make an interesting date.” “It would make a messy one. If you touch it, it’ll go off. Especially if there’s a needle involved.” “I thought you were going to make me forget my own name?” she teased. “I will on round two.”
like you like this,” he admitted. “But not because you’re wet.”
“Happy,”
“Feeling happy sometimes doesn’t mean you loved him any less,”
“I can
“There isn’t. The only reason I get out of bed in the mornings is because I haven’t figured this out yet. Because I can’t let Gareth’s death go unanswered. If it does, it’s like he didn’t even matter. Like he wasn’t the only good thing I ever had in this world and he hadn’t deserved better than that. And I refuse to let that be the case. So I’ve gathered all the broken pieces left of the girl he loved and bound them together to seek
vengeance for what was done to him. That’s all I care about.”
“That I’ll do whatever it takes to bring down the person who took my brother from me. I’ll give anything, sacrifice anything. So if it takes every piece of me, my freedom, my future, my life and my soul then that’s what it takes. I don’t care. I’ve just got to get justice for him.”
will find out what happened to him that night. Every. Little. Detail. And once I’ve figured out who took him from me, I’ll make them pay in pain and death.”
morte e ritorno, carina. To death and back.”
“Maybe when you survive this you could lay off the workouts,” I hissed through my teeth. “A little less muscle would be appreciated in this situation.”
