12. Yasmina #2
Not a question but demanding an answer all the same. “Yes, Daddy.”
He pulls me off his cock and rearranges us, moving to bend me over the chair. He tugs the tie out of my hair and then digs his fist into it, using the hold to turn my face to look at the clear window.
And then he’s shoving inside me, somehow so much deeper than when I rode him. “Don’t close your eyes. Watch them and know that they’d give damn near anything to be in here with us.”
Yes.
I keep a white-knuckled grip on the back of the chair as he slams into me. I look at the people watching. I can’t help it. I don’t want to.
Lust. So much lust, I could drown in it. They’re watching me, and I know the angle has our bodies in profile. They can see his cock sliding into my pussy, can see my breasts bounce with every stroke, can see my wetness coating my thighs.
Yes, yes, yes.
“Touch that greedy little clit of yours. I want you coming around my cock. Put on a show, baby girl. I know how much you crave being the center of attention.”
I have to shift to brace my hand on the seat of the cushion, and the new position leaves my ass in the air like an offering Jafar is only too happy to take advantage of. As I circle my clit, he does something that changes the angle, and I can’t help but cry out. “Yes, Daddy!”
He does it again, working that one spot inside me while I work my clit. I want to last, to draw out the show, to keep this forbidden feeling going longer. It’s too good. Too perfect.
I tumble over the edge, Jafar’s name on my lips as oblivion reaches up and sucks me under.
I must drift off at some point after Jafar cleans us up and wraps me in a warm blanket in his lap, because I wake in an unfamiliar room alone.
I sit up and stretch, smiling at the ache in my body.
The earlier nerves of being in this place are long gone, chased away by the grounding effect Jafar has on me.
Foolish to trust him enough for that, even more foolish to let him draw me back to earth one rough stroke at a time. I’m not sure what other option I have.
I agreed to play his game the moment I ran from him.
I don’t see how to win this, though. He holds all the cards, and the only advantage I have is that he wants me. That’s it. A poor advantage as such things go. Jafar isn’t one to lose his head and let his cock take control.
The door opens, interrupting my thoughts, and my heart actually skips a beat. He’s back. Except the man who steps out of the shadows isn’t Jafar.
It’s Ali.
I yank the sheet up to clutch against my chest. “What are you doing here?”
He grins. Ali has a rakish short of charm that dazzled my father.
It doesn’t dazzle me. No one else seems to notice or care that his smiles never reach his deep-brown eyes.
That there’s a mean glint there that raises the small hairs on the back of my neck every time I’m in the same room as him.
That from the moment we met, he looked at me like he owned me.
And now I’m naked in a room with him.
“Ali, what are you doing here?” Surely he’s not a member? If he was, Jafar would have said something. I glance past him to the door, and he laughs.
“He’s busy. We have a few minutes.” He moves closer but stops when I jerk back. His mop of curly hair might be charming on another man, and his slow smile certainly would be. But this isn’t another man. This is Ali . “Yasmina, I’m going to save you.”
I blink. “What?”
“He killed your father. Did you know that?” He takes another step. He’s nearly to the bed. “Took him into your backyard and shot him like a dog that needed to be put down.”
I know my father is dead, of course. I won’t mourn that man. I refuse to.
But I don’t know how I feel about this apparent execution Ali describes. “Please leave.”
“You’re right. No way can I get you out of here with all of Hades’s people around.”? 2
He reaches out, startlingly fast, and grabs my hand. I lose my grip on the sheet, and it falls to my waist. Ali stares at my breasts for a long moment, and I stare back, refusing to fight him despite the fear leaving me cold. I’m afraid of what he might do if I try to pull my hand back.
Playing that way with Jafar is one thing. Play . It might not look like it to an observer, but I know the truth.
Ali isn’t Jafar. This isn’t play. I want to shower off the filthy way he makes me feel with a single look.
Fear clogs my throat, slowing my thoughts. A scream builds in my throat, a sound full of terror and rage. It leaves me hoarse from the fight not to set it free. “He’ll be back soon.”
I mean it as a threat. Jafar will kill Ali. Even if he didn’t intend to before now, if he walks in on this scene, I have no doubt how he’ll react. He won’t misread the situation.
Ali takes it another way. “You’re right.” He drops my hand. “Be ready, Jazz. I’m going to get you out.” He lunges forward and takes my mouth in a brutal kiss that sends shards of ice tearing through me. “Until then.” He’s up and out of the room before I can react.
I stare at the door until I’m sure he won’t return.
Only then does my stomach lurch sickeningly.
I scramble off the bed and through the open door to the small bathroom, barely making it to the toilet in time to be sick.
I retch again and again, unable to erase the feeling of his mouth against mine.
A promise that’s nothing more than a threat.
He wants me for the same reason Jafar wants me—a trophy in their game of tug-of-war. An outward representation of the power they claimed. Or rather the power Ali wants to claim.
“Yasmina?”
I tense for half a second before I register Jafar’s rumbling voice. Not Ali.
And then he’s there, crouching next to me. “Yasmina, are you okay?” Jafar reaches out but stops before he makes contact. “Did I hurt you?”
He thinks this reaction is about him. About what we did earlier.
I might be smarter if I let him keep believing that, but I can’t.
I just can’t. “No.” Strangely enough, my stomach settles the second his big hand makes contact with my back.
I draw in a shuddering breath. “No, it’s not you.
I’m fine. I…” A mistake to play my cards now, to let him know what Ali’s plans are?
No, I can’t believe that. If I’m destined to be in a cage, the one Jafar has crafted around me is far preferable than anything Ali has to offer.
He’s no better than my father. Worse than my father because he wants to fuck me.
“Talk to me.” The quiet command settles me further.
I slump back against the glass of the shower and close my eyes.
Easier to speak if I can’t see him. “Ali was here.” I feel him go still, feel the rage rise in a tidal wave that can drown us both, but he waits for me to continue.
I clear my throat. “He says he’s decided to save me, but I think we both know that he only wants me because he thinks the power of my father’s territory is tied up with who owns me. ”
“Your father’s people need someone larger than life to follow, and for all that they’re killers, they have a romantic streak a mile wide. You’re a beautiful counterpoint to any ill will the person at your side might bring to the table. They’ll follow you—will follow whoever you’re married to.”
Married.
I open my eyes. “No one said anything about marriage.”
“No one said anything about marriage.” He nods, never taking his gaze from my face. “Yet.”
If I concentrate, I can almost feel the trap clamping shut around my leg. It’s not enough to keep me locked up in his penthouse. Or to bring me here like some prized cow to show off before it’s slaughtered.
Do I believe that what Jafar seems to feel for me is real? Yes. He might be a superb liar, but he’s never bothered to lie to with me. Do I think for a second that it will stop him from using me as he sees fit? No. Absolutely not.
I draw my tattered pride around me as best I can and lift my chin. “I’m not marrying anyone, Jafar. Not him. Not you.”? 3
“We’ll see, won’t we?”