“What do you mean no?” she whispered. “I don’t want anything to do with the mob, or these guys. You’re one of the good guys, right? So, let me go. Please.”
I shook my head, pouring the thick rich bourbon into the glass. “I never said I was a good guy. I said I’d keep you safe.” I eyed the drink to make sure there was more than a double shot.
“You’re not going to let me go?”
“Is that really what you want?” I tilted my head. “You’re not curious what it would be like if I fucked you until the sun came up? If we had five days instead of five minutes?” I leaned toward her ear.
She looked at the drink and then Don Lorenzo. My jaw dropped when she pulled it from my hand and started walking toward the sofa.
“What are you doing?”
She looked back over her shoulder at me. “I’m helping you out.”
Fuck. She wanted to stay.
5
Jessica
Ali Parker
Fuck. How had I gotten myself into the mess in front of me? The scarfaced bastard staring me down could have given Al Pacino the creeps and stolen every mafia boss part in the t
heaters without auditioning.
Auditioning. Acting.
I could do this. I was scared shitless, but I could do what I needed to do in order to save my own ass. The sexy bastard behind me obviously wasn’t one of the good guys at all, but something about that turned me on. A lot.
I’d never been around anyone but good guys, and honestly… they sucked. In bed. In business. In general.
The Don lifted his eyebrow above his good eye and gave me a cocky smirk. “Looks like Jason might have picked up a little more than he could handle tonight, no?”
“Maybe.” I extended the drink to him and slipped into character. I’d been acting since I was a girl, and just because I hadn’t had my big break, didn’t mean that shit wasn’t mine soon. I could do this. I had to.
“Let’s get this over with. I know you hate your time being wasted, and I’m not one to fuck around.” Jason moved up beside me before brushing his hand over my lower back.
Had I really just fucked him without thinking twice about it? Fear. It had to be fear. Stephanie was going to flip her shit when I told her about my night. Knowing her, she’d focus on me having unprotected sex with a bad boy stranger above everything else.
We were friends for a reason.
The Don nodded, but kept his dark gaze on me. A tremor of fear raced through me, but I forced myself to stand steadily beside my new dark lover. I wanted more of him, and for the first time in my long life of playing it safe, I wanted something more. Something different.
“I have the money, but before it’s yours, I want to watch the two of you.” He glanced up at Jason, who stiffened beside me.
“Watch what?” Jason’s voice darkened.
I glanced up toward him, numbed by the situation. I knew exactly what the Don wanted. There was no way I was stripping down in front of him and his goons.
“Max.” The Don turned his face away from us and called out to one of the guys just behind him. “Help me make this clear to our favorite hitman what’s being requested of him and his pretty lady friend tonight.”
“Don.” Jason moved in front of me, pulling me behind him. “”It’s not happening. She’s a sweet girl who-”
“Is she now?” The Don’s voice held a note of humor. “Then why do I smell sex so thick I can almost taste it?”
I gripped the back of Jason’s shirt. So much for acting anything. “No,” I whispered. “Get me out of here.”
“What do you need me to do, Don?” Max moved up, the big ugly fucker missing a few of his teeth. He pulled gun from the holster on his hip and lifted it toward Jason. “Want me to make a hole in him for her to fuck?”