Crown of Thorns and Sins 2: Ruined by the Dragon by Meg Xuemei X

Author:Meg Xuemei X [Xuemei X, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

June

I cooked for the team, not because Ink and Fang insisted on me resting, considering the trauma I’d had when Ryder almost squeezed the life out of me, but because the men were all horrible cooks and I outshone them now.

“It wasn’t like him,” Fang said, his expression dark as he sprinkled a handful of herbs into the stew as my assistant cook. “He might not have cared about any female before you, but he never laid a hand on them, and you’re unlike any other. We can all see that you’re special to him.”

“He’s under a lot of stress lately,” Ink offered.

“That asshole is always under a lot of stress,” Alistair said, leaning in the kitchen doorway, his pale, muscled arms folded across his chest, one ankle crossing the other.

His sapphire eyes fell on me, the usual hunger for my blood missing. I didn’t know what had transpired, but he no longer considered me prey.

“Ryder is always paranoid,” the vampire continued. “But lately, something else has set him off, and I bet it has to do with our summer girl.”

“I don’t think he meant to hurt you, June,” Fang said, his brown eyes growing warmer as he stopped stirring the pot and glanced at me. “I saw deep regret in his eyes. He’s going to grovel.”

“I don’t want him to grovel,” I said, restraining myself from massaging the bruises on my neck. “I just don’t care.”

“You have every right to be angry,” Fang sighed. “But please consider where he came from. No matter what the gods did to him all these centuries, they failed to break him. But when you came along, things changed. He’s never reacted toward any other woman the way he reacts to you. He doesn’t exactly know how to handle you. Not even the queen of the gods could throw him off balance as you did, and you don’t even try. He isn’t used to that.”

Fang wanted me to look at things from Ryder’s perspective and forgive him. Fang had good intentions, but I’d learned the hard way that people with good intentions often handed out the worst advice.

“He’d have killed June if we hadn’t stepped in and dragged him off,” Ink said acidly.

Fang gave Ink a disapproving look. “It wasn’t that bad. And if he truly had wanted to finish June off, no one could’ve stopped him. He isn’t a villain, and you aren’t the hero in the book, Ink.”

“But you have to admit that he lost control this time,” Ink argued. “It wasn’t cool.” He turned to me with a hard nod. “I’m on your side, June. Don’t forgive him quickly even if he grovels.”

“You aren’t helping,” Fang said, his brows lowering to his eyes. “You’re jealous. You don’t want June and Ryder to have a healthy relationship.”

“Healthy relationship?” Ink chuckled darkly. “Ryder doesn’t do relationships! He doesn’t even know how to spell the word correctly. I don’t want June to get hurt since she’s one of us now. Ryder set the rule forbidding anyone from banging their teammate, yet he’s banged June twice now.

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