24. Chapter 24
twenty-four
Borrowing Problems - Picturesque
Twenty-Seven Days Since Talia's Abduction
Considering JP worked for the Russian mob, his security system was terrible. Jackie and Dimitri bypassed it easily.
Jackie sat on the chaise, toying with the tie of her wrap skirt.
She didn’t want to admit or acknowledge how nervous she was.
She knew they wouldn’t be able to talk their way out of this.
JP would know they were desperate. Assuming he did have information on Talia’s whereabouts, he would not give it up easily.
Dimitri turned from where he stood by the windows and joined Jackie on the chaise. “He’s coming.”
Jackie nodded. Dimitri leaned back on the bed, trying to give the air of nonchalance.
There was a tension between them that had lingered all day.
The last time they sat in that spot, they’d just had their first threesome together, and Dimitri had just had his first sexual experience with another man.
While they’d been there for information that time, too, the air felt much lighter then.
Noting Jackie’s anxiety, Dimitri reached over to stroke her back. His hand reached into her hair, and she turned to him. “You don’t have to do this,” he breathed.
“If we want to get Talia back, then yes, I do.”
His brow furrowed. He wanted to disagree.
They were both well aware of what JP would ask Jackie for in exchange for the information they needed.
He’d made his desires quite clear the last time they were there.
But they needed whatever information he might have about Talia’s whereabouts.
He pulled Jackie’s head toward him, kissing her forehead.
She tilted her head, gently meeting his mouth.
“No matter what, you’re always mine,” he said.
Jackie grinned, one eyebrow perking up, telling Dimitri she was about to sass him. “You’ve made that abundantly clear.”
He snorted and kissed her again when the front door opened. They separated and exchanged one final, tense look before JP stumbled in toward the bedroom with a red-headed woman attached to his mouth.
He fumbled with the light, pausing with his head tilted at them when he finally turned it on. The woman gasped, stepping behind him as if he might protect her.
Recognition dawned on him, and he stumbled forward, eyes alight with excitement. “Mon Aphrodite,” he breathed excitedly.
“Excuse me,” the redhead hissed. Jackie raised an eyebrow and glanced at Dimitri, wondering how JP would deal with it.
He waved the woman off, saying, “I won’t be needing your company tonight.
” He turned back to Jackie, ignoring the redhead as she huffed out of the condo.
“If I’d known you would be visiting tonight, I wouldn’t have needed to find anyone else. ”
“That was obnoxiously rude,” Dimitri muttered. Jackie snorted softly, sparing him a glance.
JP knelt in front of her, before taking her hands in his and kissing them. “Have you missed me, ma beauté?”
“What do you think?” she asked, trying to sound flirty to goad him into talking freely.
He smiled. “I think I’ve been waiting for this night for several weeks. I think you’re here about the mistaken woman. But I’m going to choose to believe you missed me.”
“I’m also here,” Dimitri interjected.
JP turned to him, a sly smile on his lips. “Jealousy is unbecoming of you, Dimitri.”
“Disagree,” Jackie stated, eyeing Dimitri longingly.
He smirked at her, one side of his mouth perking up as he matched her gaze, before turning back to JP. “What’s your price for Talia’s location?”
JP turned back to Jackie, eyeing her up and down hungrily. “You know my price.”
Jackie turned back to him. “Name a different one, because that’s not on the table.”
“Shall we take this to the kitchen so you can put it on the table? It is my price.”
“Ask for anything else.”
“Why did you let him fuck your ass, but not me?” He nodded toward Dimitri.
“Because it’s his, not yours,” Jackie seethed.
JP’s smile turned sinister, showing his teeth as he stood and pulled his shirt off.
“Has it occurred to either of you that the reason I want it so bad is because you don’t want to give it?
If you’d not made such a fuss about it on Halloween, we may have been able to broker a different deal.
But the more you deny me of it, the more I want to feel your beautiful asshole wrapped around my cock. ”
Jackie’s heart sank as she realized exactly how this was going to go. She turned to Dimitri, wanting to check in before giving JP what he wanted. He stared hard at his hands, apparently also aware of where the night was going.
“You must ask for permission first?” JP antagonized. Jackie shot him a hard look.
“I don’t have to do anything,” she reminded him.
“Of course not,” he agreed, hands up in mock defeat.
“Perhaps you would like some incentive then.” Jackie didn’t answer, though she didn’t take her eyes off him, either.
His hateful smile returned. “I expect payment for chère Talia by the end of next week. Once the payment is received, I notify my bosses, and she will be released to her buyer.”
Jackie’s head swivelled so fast to look at Dimitri that she got a charley horse. He finally looked back at her, the same panic written across his face. She turned back to JP, accepting her fate, though she didn’t meet his eyes. “Tell us where she’s being held, and you can have what you want.”
JP’s pointer finger and thumb gently pinched her chin, tilting her head up to look at him. He smiled, shaking his head. “I have already parted with some very important information. If you want the rest, you first must pay.”
Jackie took a deep breath, sighing through her nose and stood.
She never really loved anal. She was enjoying it more since she and Dimitri had started experimenting with it.
But that was with Dimitri. That was with a man she loved and trusted.
JP was proving himself no better than his bosses.
However, his association with the Bratva should have been their first indication of what kind of man he was.
She turned to Dimitri, gently setting a hand on his shoulder before saying, “You don’t have to stay.”
“Actually, I’d prefer if he did stay.” JP’s sinister smile returned.
Jackie turned on him, totally indignant. “Since when are you such a sadistic asshole?” she hissed.
“While I do work for the Bratva, I do also have a public-facing job, and as such, I must behave myself with the general public. Neither of you is the general public, though, are you?” He pinched Jackie’s chin between his fingers again, holding her stare.
“I work for the Bratva for a reason, ma beaute. We have very similar interests. Money, full-figured women; the thrill and satisfaction that comes with putting those women where they belong.”
She pulled her face out of his fingers and shrugged out of her loose cardigan. He took her in, appreciating her curves in the teddy she wore, the way the short, high-waisted skirt highlighted her hourglass figure.
He wetted his lips, eyes trailing from her feet up before settling on her face.
“Did you wear a plug in preparation for me today, ma beauté?” Jackie didn’t answer; she had worn a plug all day in preparation.
But admitting that to him felt like defeat.
Instead, she let him take her by the wrist and lead her around the bed.
“Don’t just lurk there, Dimitri. Find a chair and enjoy the show. ”
He stopped at the edge of the bed, pulled Jackie by the waist until she stood flush against him and kissed her.
She let him, trying to get into it, instead of letting this be another traumatizing encounter.
She hated JP for using their desperation against them.
She hated him for making her do this. But even if she hated him, she didn’t want to let that fester into any more trauma for herself.
He pulled away, unbuttoning his pants and stripping down to his short briefs.
He reached for the tie of Jackie’s skirt when he was stripped, gasping softly in excitement when the skirt fell to the floor, exposing the lace bottom of the teddy.
He sank to his knees, kissing her over the lace before sliding a finger into the leg hole to pull them away.
The snaps at the bottom popped open, and JP’s grin returned.
“I have missed you,” he breathed against Jackie’s skin, as if speaking directly to her pussy. He inhaled deeply. Jackie tilted her head toward the ceiling so JP wouldn’t see her grimace. He was just getting started, and she already felt dirty.
He pressed his mouth to her, tugging on her legs to spread them for more access. He grunted when he tasted her. She wished she didn’t love oral so much. She hated him all over again when she remembered how good his tongue felt on Halloween.
She let him have his way with her. The thought drifted through her that maybe if she let her body enjoy this, the rest wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe if she let him do what he wanted, he wouldn’t go out of his way to hurt her.
He moaned, shoving his face more firmly against her as he fisted himself over his briefs.
Sick of not having the access he craved, JP pushed Jackie onto the bed.
He spread her legs wide and returned to devouring her.
She let herself moan as the pleasure built.
He pressed his fingers into her, and Jackie melted into the blankets.
The sadistic asshole knew how to please a woman when he felt like it.
“You don’t need to use your words, ma beauté,” he said, his mouth glistening. His fingers pumped into her, keeping the pleasure building. “Your pussy missed me. You cannot hide that from me.”
Jackie pressed her eyes closed, willing it to be over when she opened them again.
JP’s fingers left her pussy and pressed into her ass before she could register what was happening. She gasped, clenching around the fingers she hadn’t expected.