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

by Caroline Peckham

I swear the guy spoke in Faetalian just to turn me on sometimes.

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

His eyes had followed me as I’d walked right out of the Cafaeteria after I’d collected my food and I’d ignored him.

Gah, why did I even give a shit about who he screwed?

“Rough doesn’t even begin to explain it when it comes to me,” Ryder said. “But we’ll soon find out if you can take it.”

“Do you wanna move your ass off of my desk or will I be shoving you off of it?” I asked sweetly,

Ryder shifted in his chair, his knee brushing against my thigh. A little shock of energy ran through me, but I refused to move away.

I tugged at the collar of my shirt just to give my fingers something to do, loosening off one of the buttons too close to my neck. Ryder’s heart thumped a little harder and he turned to glare straight ahead too.

He drummed his fingers in the wooden table top, pain dancing on his knuckles as he did so. Dipshit.

On a jollier note, we have managed to get a new chocolate pop-tart supplier and the Cafaeteria will have plenty available every morning for your munchie needs.” Dante barked a laugh and I turned to look at him in surprise.

He winked at me like we were sharing a joke and I frowned in confusion before turning back to the front of the class.

“Are you shitting me right now?” he snapped. “You and him?”

“You don’t give a shit about me. Right?” “Too fucking right,” Ryder growled. “Then we don’t have an issue,”

“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,” Ryder snapped as I dropped into my seat.

“Shit, Ryder, you really do love The Lion King, don’t you?” I snorted. “Fuck off. And answer my question.” “I didn’t hear a question amongst your Disney based insults,” I replied.

“Why him?” he demanded, his voice breaking from angry to something that sounded a whole lot more raw on the last word and I looked at him more closely before replying.

just as Dante ran past Leon’s desk and tossed something into his cauldron. Half a second later there was a loud bang and blue smoke poured out everywhere.

“Hold on! I’m coming!” Titan called from beyond the smog as Dante roared with laughter at Leon’s blue face.

He lifted me by the neck and slammed me against a brick wall so hard that my head rang from the impact. “Don’t ever insult my gang again,” he hissed. “And if you ever fuck Inferno, I’ll kill you myself, slowly.”

Ryder was frowning at me like he couldn’t quite understand what had just happened but I didn’t care. I was done with his bullshit. So fucking done.

“You’re really leaving?” he asked with a frown. “That’s what you want, isn’t it?” I asked icily.

Ryder over my shoulder. “Your old lab partner just sent me an illusion of him beating me to death with a rock,” he explained. “I guess he’s feeling jealous.”

Ryder hissed behind me and I turned to glare at him as I dropped into my new chair beside Leon. Ryder caught me in his hypnosis next, but I grabbed control of the version of myself within the vision before he could do whatever it was he had planned for me.

“This is a funny way to prove you don’t want anything to do with me,” I snapped. “I’m just making sure you don’t come back,” Ryder snarled in respons...

“Because I thought you were my girl now?” “Where would you get a silly idea like that?” I scoffed.

“You’re hard work, you know that?” he teased. “Too much work for one man alone,” I agreed, winking at him as I blew a bubble with my gum. Leon huffed but he was half smiling too.

“Maybe I need some help then,” he teased and my smile grew. “Yeah, maybe you do.”

I was well and truly done with the day but unfortunately, it wasn’t done with me.

I shoved pages into a stack and paused as the title of one caught my eye. How to assert control among the masses: a teacher’s guide to dealing with students with higher ranking powers to yourself.

“Yeah, the gang kings are kinda hard to miss,” I agreed, pushing the door shut behind me. “Yes. And of course the Night family are renowned in the criminal network of the city too. And Gabriel Nox is really too powerful to be attending this particular academy…but anyway you don’t want to hear about the latest topic of conversation at the staff meeting,”

It was time to play a little prank on my Dragon friend.

comeback so I had to be sly. Luckily for me, sly was my middle name.

Students gasped and laughed as Dante held me down and threw a punch to my gut, his hair glittering under the lights.

Elise stepped out of her dorm, her brows jumping up as she spotted me. I grabbed her like a human shield, placing her between me and Dante with a grin.

and Elise stepped aside to give him access to me. “Traitor!” I called to her as she headed off toward the showers with a laugh - she totally glanced back to check out Dante’s ass though.

He glanced over his shoulder at absolutely nothing and I raced for my room, slamming the door shut just before the weight of a Dragon Shifter slammed against it. “I’ll get you back for this, mio amico!” he shouted through the door, his threat lessened by the snort of amusement that escaped him.

As Elise was currently at the Cafaeteria, that was where I decided to be. I wanted to watch every student in the room and try to figure out if anyone was looking at her too much or touching themselves under a table – unlikely but worth a shot.

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.

His gaze was pinned on Elise as she helped herself to food from the buffet and I wondered if the stalker was as obvious as him.

When she was finished, she slumped onto the table dramatically in a fit of sobs and her friends gathered around her, patting her back.

I’d surveyed the room long enough. My girl wasn’t going to sit alone.

Her brows jumped up in surprise and a smile pulled at her mouth. A mouth I definitely wanted a kiss from.

I leaned in for it and grinned as she let me take one, my soul singing as she shifted closer so her thigh pressed against mine.

“Well I like the cherry ones but I couldn’t get to them under the mountain of chocolate.” She shrugged but I puffed my chest out like a hero and headed over to the buffet.

she gave me the biggest smile. It did a lot of things to my heart (and my dick).

I’d stopped eating, full on staring at her devouring that poptart while wishing it was me. When she bites me she’s never gonna want to drink from any other Fae in the whole of Solaria.

I couldn’t wait to see what Dante had done to cover up his hair. A beanie hat? A bandana? A beret? Oh please stars, let it be a beret.

They were the opposite to the Lunars, all of them messing around together like a pack of dogs. Which most of them were to be fair.

Dante appeared amongst them and I was kinda proud to find he was just owning the hair disaster so its glittery glory was on show.

“Hey Tinkerbell, wanna go on a date with me later?!” I called across the room at him. He...