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

by Caroline Peckham

“There’s no deal.” She shrugged one shoulder. “I like him. He likes me.”

all I wanted to do was grab her and devour the kiss I’d craved since we’d first met.

“He knows I don’t want to get tied down to one guy,” she said, her gaze dipping to my mouth.

Seemed like a dick move to shove my tongue down her throat though. She might have told Leon that, but it didn’t mean he’d be happy with his friend trying it on with her. It simply wasn’t cool.

I wouldn’t have put it past Ryder to figure out a way to get a deadly dose of aconite into a sealed bottle of beer destined for my hand.

Yeah, more alcohol is a great fucking idea right now, idiota.

Leon and I turned to watch as the two girls started dancing with Elise and my dick twitched as she fell into a rhythm with them, her hips swaying and her crop top riding up.

“What are the chances that will turn into a threesome?” Leon asked hopefully, moving close to speak in my ear. “In your dreams or in reality?” I laughed. “In reality. It’s a hundred percent happening in my dreams tonight, dude.”

“Maybe she’ll stick around if there’s two of us keeping her satisfied.”

“Think about it. A girl like her clearly needs a change of scenery from time to time.” “Are you seriously suggesting we share her, caro mio?”

“Tonight’s the perfect time to find out. You just need to go in for a kiss and see how she reacts.” “Sei pazzo,” I laughed. “You’re crazy.”

“Looks like you wanna try though, stormy,” he taunted. I pressed my tongue into my cheek, throwing him a grin. “Okay I wanna try.”

Leon smiled like I’d just made his fucking day and I tried not to think about how weird that was.

The way her body moved in time to the music was fucking poetry.

The stars only knew what song was playing right then, all I could hear was the electricity humming in my blood.

A girl drew me into a dance next to them, but my gaze never faltered from Elise.

It felt like a damn sales pitch, like he was showing me how good it would be to stand in his place. And hell was I buying it.

Her eyes snapped to me and he pushed her forward, his hands resting on her hips as he walked her toward me. She gave me a questioning look, giggling at something as Leon whispered to her again.

I waited for Elise to come to me, Leon’s hands brushing her stomach, sliding up to graze beneath her crop top.

She bit down on her lip, halting him and dancing again, swaying her ass against his crotch.

“Dante,” Elise whispered, moving toward me and suddenly she was all I could see. Lightning forked through the sky again as she laid a hand on my chest to feel my rapid heart.

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

I didn’t want to hurt her, and from the look in her eyes I was doing anything but that.

I laid my hands on her hips right where Leon’s had been and she gasped as more power rolled off of me.

“Is it too much?” I whispered against her mouth. “No, it’s not enough.”

I didn’t care who was watching, I was getting the prize of a fucking lifetime and I was going to savour every drop of it.

Someone turned the music up and Elise started to grind against me in time with the pounding beat. I was hard as hell and she knew it, driving me to insanity as friction built between our bodies.

Elise pulled back with a gasp and I found Leon behind her, his hands wrapping around her waist as he pressed up against her. He dipped his head for a kiss and she gave it to him, her hands still firmly locked around me.

I knew we had an audience and I gav...

This girl captivated me and if I had to share her with a friend to get her attention then that wasn’t the biggest sacrifice in the world.

Leon chuckled, lowering his mouth to her throat and I leaned in to take another kiss from her.

She laughed against my mouth as the three of us danced like we had no fucking dignity and I di...

“Come back to the dorm,” I asked and Leon nodded hopefully.

Elise started laughing and I frowned, confused and horny as fuck. “I’m good. But it looks like you guys could use a hand getting off so maybe you should go together?”

I sighed, looking up at the storm clouds as they flashed above with expectant energy that was never going to be unleashed. “Fuck my life.”

When Dante asked me to get him a try-out for the Pitball team, it had been a pretty easy job. Mars practically jumped for joy at the chance to get a Dragon on the team.

Dante’s pack had turned up to watch and were all cheering wildly from the stands. “Go on Drago!”

“We’re gonna beat Zodiac!” “Dude,” I laughed. “That is so optimistic.” “I’d love to see their Airsentry, Lance Orion, on his ass,” Dante said excitedly. “I’m gonna make sure I’m as good as him when we play them.”

I wasn’t the kind of guy who would ever take drugs,

“Hey if I teach you how to act maybe Dante will forgive me. Maybe he’ll welcome me back in if I make you the best pledge ever, right?” “Right,” I said brightly, though I had no real intention of taking the initiation.

I nodded in earnest because hell, if there was one thing I knew about myself it was that I could put someone else’s needs before my own.

“Yeah, I can definitely do that.” “Bene, I’ll make an Oscura out of you then, Gareth. The best one they’ve ever seen.”

Sampling forbidden fruit may come back to haunt you today.

“Big night?” Gabriel asked from his bunk as he looked up from a Numerology book he was studying.

and I spotted his golden chalice hanging from his fingertips where his arm hung over the edge of the bed.

“You’re actually trending,” Gabriel pressed and I was about to tell him I didn’t have time for this conversation just as the sound of a video playing reached my ears. I turned to look at him as he held his Atlas out for me to see.

as I danced between the two men who had dominated my time at the party last night.

Dante’s hand caught my face and he tipped my mouth up to meet his. The memory of that kiss made my lips tingle with the el...

“Are you trying to make me jealous?” Gabriel asked, scowling at me.

“Don’t you feel the pull to me?” he asked, the seriousness of his tone making me hesitate. “The draw of our bond urging you back my way whenever we’re not together?”