His hands were rough, the muscles thick and strong. He squeezed my hips and ran his palms over my ass and squeezed me there too.
His cock pressed against my stomach, yearning and hungry after his victorious fight.
“You’ve never fucked until you fuck a monster,” Harper had said, her voice echoing through my mind.
I didn’t want to fuck a monster. I didn’t want to fuck anybody.
The Beast’s hands continued to flow over my skin, bringing goosebumps writhing across the surface like a tossed pebble in a pond. He cupped my breasts in his hands and rubbed my nipples, pinching them between his fingers.
His cock—impossibly—grew even longer and harder.
Then he raised one hand up my chest, rested it on my shoulder, and cupped the back of my neck. He ran a thumb along my jaw and cheek and looked into my eyes.
Despite myself, and I hated to admit this, but I felt tears clog up my nose and throat. I blinked them back and struggled to control my emotions.
I might act like no one could hurt or harm me, but the truth was, I was just a girl far from home, forced to pleasure any creature that looked my way.
And when the Beast’s eyes met mine, something changed in his expression. He blinked. It was like he’d turned a switch. His eyes lowered and he removed his hands from me.
He took a step back. He was still hard as a rock but he no longer pressed himself against me.
“I’ll… take a shower,” he said in his raspy voice.
He marched into the bathroom and within seconds, the water was running.
He just left me standing there.
Naked.
My body could still feel his bare hands.
I was relieved he wouldn’t take his frustrations out on me but at the same time, I was concerned.
What if Lily heard about what happened? What if she learned we didn’t do anything?
But the night was still young. There was no telling what we might get up to before I had to return to my shared quarters in the Prize Pool.
I didn’t move until the water splattered on the bathroom floor as he took a shower.
I bent down, picked up my dress, and pinned it back on my shoulder.
I peered around the room. Now what was I meant to do?
Escape, you fool!
I turned to the door and looked for the handle but there wasn’t one. I pulled and pushed and pried on it but it wouldn’t open.
“Computer. Unlock this door.”
“Negative,” Computer said. “You lack the necessary authority.”
“Then how am I supposed to get out of here?”
“You are scheduled to leave under armed guard at seven o’clock tomorrow morning.”
Seven o’clock? Did that mean I was trapped in here until then? With a huge fighter that could do whatever he wanted with me?
No. There had to be another way out.
“Computer. There’s a fire in here. I need to escape now. Quick!”
“I detect no fires in the cell.”
“There is. It’s… I think your sensors are broken.”
“Negative. Sensors are working optimally. Would you like me to call an engineer?”
An engineer… That meant the door would have to open to let him in. And that meant I could escape.
“Yes. Call an engineer.”
“An engineer has been scheduled.”
Yes!
“He will come tomorrow morning at seven o’clock.”
No…
“Can you make him come sooner?” I said.
“Negative. The engineer is busy with other projects until that time.”
Of course, he was. Meanwhile, I’m being burnt to a crisp in here.
Then maybe I could ask the Beast to let me go? I mean, he got a nice handful earlier. Maybe that was all he needed from me?
I edged toward the bathroom and nudged the door open. There was no shower curtain. It was a wet room and he had his back to me.
His face was aimed at the water that streamed from the showerhead and ran down his face and body. His big beefy hand was wrapped around his thick cock and he stroked it aggressively.
I backed away from the door. I stumbled over my own feet and fell flat on my ass.
I would never get that image out of my head…
That huge beast whacking off while he was thinking of…
Me?
He wasn’t finished with me, I realized. He was fantasizing about what he would do to me…
So why hadn’t he done it already?
I thought back over our little scene in his room earlier. He stood proud as he probed at me. He could have taken me then. Nothing was stopping him.
Then he looked into my eyes and…
The change came over him. He realized I didn’t want him to use me.
Could that be right?
It sounded ridiculous.
I mean, the guy was the most feared creature in this place and yet… he refused to take advantage of me?
Then why had he brought me to his cell in the first place?
And what was he going to do with me now I was locked in there until morning?
The water ceased splattering across the bathroom floor.
He’d finished with his shower.
He would come in here, naked and wet, and find me standing here in this slutty dress…
There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
I quickly pulled the bed’s covers back and slipped into the bed.
Kren
The water was hot and soothing. It eased my muscles and the aches and pains from my earlier fight.
I ran a hand over my jaw to work out the kinks.
The zinknos I’d faced was a real slogger. He caught me a few times on the jaw and it made me stumble, a little dazed until I found my rhythm again.
I danced to avoid his swinging arms, ducking, and weaving.
He swung at me with everything he had. The zinknos never believed in half measures. Pacing himself was an alien concept.
Everyone knew that when a zinknos began to perspire, that’s when you had him on the ropes.
It was easy to demolish him after that.
I knocked his unconscious form to the floor. His chin struck the ground and a handful of teeth skittered from his
