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

by Caroline Peckham

You’re a merry-go-round and I’m getting off the ride now. If you have feelings for me, you should just own them because honestly it’s kind of pathetic that you can’t.”

“I’ll always be here for you when you need me, little monster,”

“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.

he grinned like I’d just told him I loved him, not shown gratitude for a bit of questionably prepared food.

“You can sleep with me, little monster,” Leon murmured as he ran his fingers through my hair. “I’ll guard you against any nightmares that come looking for you. They won’t get past me.”

He was always so calm and self assured, like this perfect beam of sunshine which could never be breached by clouds.

I swear her whole damn body tasted like cherries and ecstasy. Fucking checstasy. It was going on my top ten list of things I liked to eat and I had a feeling I was about to crown a new number one.

You know you took the best of me with you when you died, don’t you? Because I was only ever the better parts of me when you were there to bring out the light in me.

“Perché mi spezzerai il cuore se non lo fai,”

“I just don’t understand why you fought so hard against what we had but you have no problem jumping into bed with that fucking hakuna matasshole,”

I wanted to prove I could protect her and when I found this bastard, I’d lay him at her feet like a dead mouse. Then she’d definitely be grateful. What wasn’t charming about that?

“How the fuck do you get away with this shit?” she asked. “He’d kill anyone else who tried it.” “Same reason you get away with winding him up.” I glanced at her with a seductive grin. “He wants to put it in your ass.”

“I cieli si scontrano per te, carina,” I purred. The heavens collide for you.

I haven’t thought of another woman since the stars brought you to me, you consume my desires.”

“I like you like this, bloody and broken and bleeding from the inside and out. There’s something so pure about you like this. So real,”

“I desire your pain more than you could possibly understand.”

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.

“Hai la forza di tutte le stelle e lo spirito di un guerriero, amore mio. Non hai bisogno di nessuno. Neanche tua madre. Ma tu hai me,”

“Sto cadendo sotto il tuo incantesimo, Elise. We can do whatever you like.”

“Touch me again and I’ll bite you.” She bared her fangs and something about that made my cock twitch happily.

“I want you every minute of every day, what do you expect me to do? Seeing you with other men is torture.”

“Ryder Draconis tastes like fucking ecstasy whipped up into an ice cream and Dante Oscura is like drinking a pure shot of lightning which sparks life through every inch of my flesh.

You’re gonna eat what I give you.” “I’m only agreeing to that if your pussy’s on the menu.”

“Da dove vieni, amore mio?” he growled. I smiled at the sound of him speaking to me in his language. It set a fire burning in my soul and made desire coil in my core even though I had no idea what he was saying.

I might have been willing to share my body with them, but they wouldn’t get my heart. It was too broken to hand out to anyone anyway. And as I looked between Leon and Dante, I couldn’t bring myself to regret a second of what we’d done.

“Qualcuno di cui ero pazzo di cui fidarmi. I won’t make the same mistake again.” “What mistake?” I asked with a frown, for once not liking the way he used his native tongue. It usually felt like he spoke to me in his language out of passion, this felt like he was using it to withhold information. “Fidati solo del sangue. Famiglia per sempre.”

“Because I think if I gave you my trust, you’d use it to steal my heart and once it was yours you’d never give it back.”

“Tears don’t make you weak, my little angel,”

“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.”

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.

“If you ever find yourself in trouble because of money or anything else you can come to me,” he said in a low voice. “You won’t ever have to make a choice like that while I still draw breath.”

“No one gets to make my Leo frown,” I breathed as he trailed kisses down my neck. “Fuck, if you say that again, I think I’ll come already,”

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.

Maybe Mars had been right to send me to this detention because I was an addict. But Killblaze wasn’t my drug of choice. The Kings were. And no matter how hard I tried to hold myself back, I kept finding myself in positions like this.

“I’d call you temptation,” he growled. “Of the darkest variety.”