“Right. Yeah.” I shook my head—get a fucking grip—and explained the issue. While he got to work, I grabbed my phone and quickly sent a response.
If you want me to stay away, that photo isn’t helping.
Just playing by the rules.
You really don’t plan to meet me?
No.
What if I answer every question?
Maybe, but you won’t.
I chewed my bottom lip, suppressing a smile.
You can’t scare me.
We’ll see, Maniac.
chapter
eight
SHAY
Siblings?
Older sister. You?
Older brother, younger sister.
Are you close?
It took Void a moment to respond.
No.
I’d expected once the gauntlet was thrown down for him to really try to trip me up. Ask me a question that was hard to answer. Instead, he asked me about myself. My favorite ice cream (spicy black sesame), favorite color (pink), favorite movie (Silent Hill). And I asked him the same, so I learned Void liked lemon bars, the color green, andLegally Blonde. After telling him about my sister’s jumping spider, I also learned that he was afraid of spiders.
It was not where I expected him to go. The man who called melittle Maniac, who hacked into my account and said he wanted to watch me shatter on his cock, asked me about my favorite foods and dietary restrictions.
When was your first time?
I asked, sitting on the edge of Eames and Olly’s couch, while a German romance show blared on the screen.
Grad school. With my married professor.
Wow, that was later than I expected. I was also incensed for him. His first time was with someone in a position of power, whom he should have been able to trust. I suddenly had a lot of questions. Like how did it happen? Was it more than once? Alsohe’d been to grad school? What did he study?
“Finally!” Olly screamed at the TV just as Lithie yelled, “Are you fucking kidding me?”
They both turned to face each other.
“You can’t seriously want this,” Lithie said. “He’s the brother. It’s basically incest.”
“He’s thebetterbrother,” Olly said.
My phone vibrated, and I turned away from their bickering just as Eames paused the show and threatened that love triangles should apply to television.
