hips bucked, accompanied by a soft mewling moan that quickly turned into a keening cry for him to continue.
His fingers flexed inside me, twisted, flexed again. “Do you accept my cock?”
I bit my lip, refusing to answer. Take me , screamed inside my head. Don’t ask, fucking take me.
Something hard slammed against the bedroom door, the wood caving in at its center. Before I could react, Dino had rolled away, the sound of metal scraping across wood audible as he scooped up the pistol.
“Behind the bed, now!” His feet hit the floor, his body crouched low.
Another slam against the door and the wood surrounding the locks shattered. The door bounced open an inch, the light from the hallway illuminating a thin slice of the bedroom floor. The handle of a cane pushed against the door, its knob silver and shaped like the head of some bird.
“ Jefe , you could have knocked.” Dino’s tone sounded relaxed but he didn’t leave the crouch he was in.
The cane retreated and was replaced by Manny’s head as he cautiously peered into the room. He darted back out of sight and whispered something. With the sound of metal dragging along a wall, Manny poked his head back into the room and jerked it in the direction of the hall.
“Boss wants both of you, just as you are.”
*****
Just as we were meant stark naked with a gun in Dino’s hand. He led the way down the hall, cautioning me with his upraised gun to hold back.
He stopped, half exposed to whatever waited for us in the room at the end of the hall.
“What’s this about, Jefe ?”
“It’s about you risking an entire crew and a kilo of my heroine.”
It was an old man’s voice, but nothing about it seemed weak or fatherly. It was Dino’s voice four decades from now if he stayed on his current path.
“So?”
I stopped studying the other doors in the hall and looked at Dino’s face. He was standing with his right side to me and all I could see was the side of his face quirked upwards like a bored smartass who wasn’t standing naked in the middle of a drug house, his only cover a magazine full of bullets.
“So show me that I didn’t make a mistake letting you in, chico .”
Relaxing the pistol along his thigh, Dino walked the rest of the way into the room. His back against the wall as he faced the other men in the room, he placed the pistol on a table next to him and crooked his finger at me.
I took slow steps toward him, my mind still undecided on whether I should obey or pray that one of the doors in the hall was unlocked and had a window that opened onto the street. But if I ran, he’d have to face them on his own and I had a feeling both our lives were in danger. Whatever his motivation had been, he’d taken a big risk when he stopped Feo from cutting my throat. Whether or not I got away, he’d be dead before I reached the front yard.
Chewing at my bottom lip, I entered the room with my gaze focused only on Dino.
He offered a slow blink as if deliberately trying to center me. “Come closer, baby.”
I obeyed, feeling their gazes clawing at my back. When I was within arms’ reach, Dino gripped my hips and guided me until I stood directly in front of him. His hands circled behind me to grab my ass cheeks as his foot swept along between my feet to coax my legs further apart.
He kneaded the fleshy globes of my bottom, his breathing slow and hypnotic in my ear. “So beautiful,” he whispered. “Every last dick in the room is hard looking at you.”
He kissed me, my mouth, my neck, his big hands pulling me close to him and then relaxing before repeating the rhythm. His cheek nuzzled mine but I could tell he was only half with me. A thread of tension ran through his body, his posture seemingly relaxed but alert beneath my hands.
Knotting his fingers in my hair, he turned my head to one side. Starting with a slow lick of my top lip, he kissed me. His free hand moved