I flinched, the back of my head cracking into the glass with an audible thud. I hadn't heard his name aloud for months. It hurt like a lance through my heart.
"Interesting," Void murmured, watching me. "His name hurts you."
"Yes," I hissed. "Let me go; I want to leave."
I jumped when he trailed a fingertip down my face, from temple to chin, strangely gentle. "You didn't kill him, did you?"
What? That's what they thought?
"Of course I didn't," I growled, trying to sound pissed off even when my throat was thick with tears. "Get away from me; I'm leaving."
I pushed at his shoulder, but Void was so much bigger and taller than me, it was like fighting a brick wall. Instead, his arms wound around my waist and he lifted me into the air. I hated my body for its automatic reaction when my legs wrapped around his waist, making a low sound of surprise form in Void's chest.
"So responsive," he praised. "I see why Mav marked you. He didn't believe you murdered Vann, either."
I inhaled sharply at his name again, hurt arrowing into my chest. I froze when Void's massive hand cradled my head, thumb sweeping across my cheek to brush aside a tear I hadn't noticed had fallen.
"What are you hiding, lonely girl?" he asked, not gentle by any means, but there was a hint of care as he laid me on his bed, sweeping aside the covers soaked with mine and Mav's cum. "Will your dreams reveal the answers?"
"I'm not sleeping," I argued instantly, crossing my arms across my chest and gulping when it pushed up my boobs and drew Void's stare.
"But you're so worn out," he replied, pushing me onto my back with a broad hand on my stomach. "Lay back. Like Mav said, I'll take care of you."
"I don't want you to take—um."
He shocked me by pulling my legs apart and dragging his mouth along my pussy, licking and slurping. I was covered in Mav's cum—literally dripping it, even now. And Void lickedeverything, swallowing it like it was the sweetest honey.
"I'll clean you up," he offered, his voice a fraction deeper than a second ago and his big, grey hands curling around my thighs like Mav's tentacles had earlier. "No pain tonight; you're too sad to give me the responses I want."
"Ah, thanks?"
He laughed, a soft puff of air moving over my clit and making me stiffen at the same moment a long tongue thrust into my pussy and flicked, cleaning all the cum from me there, too.
Oh, god. I was a mess of emotions—mortified and turned on and feeling so dirty I throbbed around his tongue. Void made a barely-there sound of satisfaction.
"Why do you monsters keep making me come?" I demanded, throwing an arm across my face as my body burned with need again.
Void huffed, withdrawing his tongue. It was nowhere near as long as Sang’s but still deadly.
"It's rare that we come across anything as sweet as you." He paused. "Perhaps literally."
I groaned when I realised his joke.
"Your reactions are fascinating," he said, and flicked his tongue inside me again, gripping my hips when they bucked. "And you taste incredible. I can't remember the last time we had a human at our mercy. It's intoxicating."
I gripped the sheets on either side of me, my head spinning and emotions misfiring all over the place. I should be pushing him away, right? This was crazy. He'd been inside my head earlier, raking up all my worst memories to find the information he wanted.
"I can sense your thoughts spilling over," Void said, gravelly as he withdrew his tongue to drag it along my inner thigh, cleaning me there, too. "I want to know what makes you nervous."
A laugh bubbled up. "Everythingmakes me nervous."
"I want to see," he reiterated, and I jolted at a tap inside my head, like he'd knocked a knuckle against my skull.
"Are you asking to … to go inside my head?" I blurted in disbelief, fighting a gasp when he dragged his mouth up my other thigh, swallowing cum and arousal. "Why?"
"I told you. I want to know—"
"No," I cut him off. My belly swooped with nerves when the huge monster pinning me to the bed narrowed a look at me, something hard and unyielding in his black eyes. Up close, those eyes were a strange shape, more narrowed than I'd ever seen on a human, with sharp edges. "Why are youasking?I'm your prisoner, right? Why wouldn't you just … torture me like earlier. Whyask?"