Page 93 of Brightness

Void turns, his eyes shining in happiness when he sees me. “Yeah, prospect?”

“I stole your bike.”

Nerve chuckles to himself as Void groans, placing the pool cue down on the table. “Jesus, Toxin, again?”

I raise my hands to placate him. “Before you start, it was for a good reason.”

Void folds his arms over his chest, his bulging biceps sexy as hell, and I lose all concentration for the briefest of seconds. He widens his eyes at me, and I continue. “Shit, sorry. Yeah, so I was worried about Justice. He’d been drinking, then he got on his ride.”

Void instantly relaxes his posture. “You didn’t want him to crash.”

I nod, and he gestures for me to keep going. “I wanted to follow him, make sure he was okay. He went to a bar across town. I was going to tell the bar bitch to send him home in a cab when he was done, but I have a feeling a pretty little blonde will help him home instead.”

Void purses his lips. “You’re a good friend, Toxin. A bad prospect, but a good friend.”

I smirk. “Yeah, I’m kinda breaking all the damn rules, aren’t I?”

He groans. “So, I’m gonna have to restrict you to a cage for the next month. And… I’m gonna make you clean the domes every day for the next week for stealing my ride.”

I slump, pouting. “Urgh… sometimes I hate that you’re the boss of me.”

He narrows his hooded eyes. “And sometimes you love it.”

Nerve groans. “Yep, that’s me done.” He places his pool cue on the table. “Will you two just go fuck already. You trying to fight your urges right now is making me want to gag,” he calls out as he leaves.

Void grabs my hand and leads me toward the stairs. I’ve moved most of my stuff into his room. The VP’s Old Lady can’t be seen living in the Cell. But Void knows if we want to explore our kink, we head downstairs.

There’s something wrong with the both of us, we get that, but we get turned on by the fact we’re fucking next to a room full of the people we’ve killed.

There’s a reason they called me Toxin.

Because I have chaos in my veins.

I live for the thrill of death. I am Defiance. An Old Lady.

I’m more than anyone ever thought of me.

But, more importantly, I’m everything to Void.

And he is everything to me.

And that… that is all that matters.

“I love you, Void,” I murmur.

“Love you too, Toxin.”