Two Hitmen: A Double Bad Boy Mafia Romance (Lawless Book 1) (48 page)

Her face was wet from tears of pain-filled pleasure, and the slick head of him twitched angrily in front of her. “Is this what you want?” He pushed it in front of her trembling lips. Her breath was hot and hard. He didn’t give her time to answer but she started to nod as he yanked her by the hair and shoved it in to fill her hot, soft mouth.

His musky scent mingled with the unfamiliar tang of her juices.
 
The head of his hard, thick shaft thrust along her tongue, and jammed against the back of her throat.

Her throat muscles stretched, and she had to fight the spasms of reflex as his velvety girth drove through her mouth and into her tight throat.
 
He pulled her hair until her lips met his wiry hair and his balls lightly tapped against his chin.

She quaked as his hips propelled him in and out of her mouth, all the way to the tip and then back, right into his groin. She grabbed his hard, tight buttocks and clawed as she pulled him even harder into her. Pulses beat along and though him, one after another, and she took him all the way down. His heat exploded in bolts of thick, hot cum.

His sticky, salty sweetness filled her mouth and dribbled out of her mouth.

The way he held her afterwards, the way he stroked her with such strength and restraint, had to mean something. She knew right then that she would give Ryder anything, just so long as he wanted her enough to take it.

Epilogue

Drops of water echoed from the far end of the dark warehouse. Haughey moved uncomfortably on the steel chair. Ryder’s voice behind him was too quiet; he had to strain to hear him properly.

“The Skulls have always had excellent legal representation. What’s wrong? They’re bullshit charges against Iron and Jam. I’d have thought you could just make them go away.

He tried to turn in his seat to look at Ryder. He was tied too tight. The light in his face made it hard to concentrate. “We thought so, too. We had the judge squared away.”

His head turned from side to side as Ryder paced behind him. Ryder said, “So, what’s the problem?”

“He’s not going to hear the case.”

“Why the hell not?”

“It’s been listed for Judge Sage.”

Ryder stopped. Jesska’s father. Haughey said, “Ryder, you got the Blades’ say-so for this, for having me tied to a damned chair? Seems like you’re flexing your muscle when it ain’t your beef.”

Ryder leaned down and spoke next to Haughey’s ear. His voice was low, strong, andsharp as glass. “How the Blades feel about you leading their men into that trapis their affair. Standing out in front, that was me you put in the frame. You almost handed me over to the feds, Haughey. That’s my beef.”

Ryder spoke over Haughey’s head, straight to Bear who was in the darkness.

“Didn’t I say that I hate guns? Ugly business. They’re noisy, they jam and go wrong, and they’re always empty when you need ’em most. Add to that you never know where the fuck they’ve been. When you lift a gun from a gun show or a guy on the street, what kind of company are you really taking away with you? What other names are you dragging along behind you? Military kit is the worst of all. A fuckin’ AK? Man, that could have been used by child soldiers in Sudan. Or even used
on
them.” He paced some more.

“Those are all good reasons to hate the whole business of guns, but they ain’t why I hate them. Really, I hate them ’cause they’re so damned impersonal. Where’s the fun of killing someone from across the street?”

He grabbed Haughey’s head and twisted until he felt the crack. He looked up at Bear, “Simple, silent, swift, and yet so satisfying.” Haughey’s wide-eyed frozen expression didn’t change as Ryder let go and his head lolled down onto his chest. Ryder sauntered to the door, and Bear followed. “When they got to go, send ’em off the Ryder way.”

They shielded their eyes as they stepped out into the sun. Ryder said, “Only testimony he’ll be giving now is at his autopsy.”

Ryder climbed onto his Harley as Bear swung his leg over his own bike. “No need for the old family-style cross-cut two-shot, the bespoke Versace. Too noisy and too messy.” He slipped the key into the lock, and put his thumb over the switch. “People have come back from a bullet right through their brains.” The Harley engine made a crackling growl as Ryder wound the throttle. “No-one’s yet made a miracle recovery from the patent Ryder spinal snap.”

The Hostage Sister

Amy Law

Tiffany huddled and shivered from shock in the thin blanket. Blue and red lights flashed over the dark asphalt and radio noise crackled through the night air. She was distant, disconnected, as if she were watching firm male hands steer someone else to the open door of an ambulance.

Questions rained down on her but they bounced off and faded away into the blur of noise and movement as her senses began to shut down.

They poked her mouth with spatulas. Took swabs. Shone lights in her eyes and turned her arms over.

Felt everywhere.

All over her body. Again.

Someone gave instructions. Drips, injections. Measurements.

“We’re going to get them,” a strong, male voice said. “There’s plenty to go on, Miss. Don’t you worry about a thing now.”

Them
. One of them, she wanted that bastard caught. For what he did, she wanted him behind bars, his skin turning pale and gray while he waited on years of appeals against the death penalty. But the other one… not the other one…

All the voices, all the sounds of boots on shale, they all receded into the soft, soothing darkness.

The clocktower bell clanged and her eyes flicked open. She was back in the funk and gloom of that square, bare, windowless room.

Chapter 1

Tiffany spent the bright spring Saturday morning making use of Daddy’s credit cards at the mall. Her first weekend off from her med school internship roster at Mountain View Hospital and she meant to recreate.

Serious party plans were afoot with her gang of med students, and they knew how to rip the night wide open. She just hoped that nobody leaked any of the details to the notorious Doctor Mastermann. She didn’t need her slender skills in martial arts tested again.

She cruised the food court, picked out some Thai vegetarian snacks, and schlepped her big bags full of upscale grunge-wear and Urban Decay makeup—most of it in shades of black—over to a table.

Leaning on the balcony rail above were two bikers. They looked pretty hardcore, probably members of Blades MC. The local trouble, or the local heroes, depending on whether you took Daddy’s outlook or her sister Jesska’s.

Mean shades poked out between their unruly masses of wiry hair. One had a mess of light brown tangle; the other had a dirty blond thatch. The darker-haired one wore a thick, neat beard.

Cut-off leather jackets over cut-off hoodies left the hard cords of their arm muscles on show, and their jeans covered but did nothing to conceal two heart-stopping clenched asses. You could stack a row of textbooks on those asses. If books were what was on your mind, that is.

Tiffany didn’t see the bikers take any notice of her at all but, if they were around any longer than her samosa, she meant to make sure that they did. She had used up most of her morning plan for spending Daddy’s money, so she had nothing else in mind for the day.

Bikers. Bikers had always fascinated Jesska; fascinated to a point of obsession. She rode a motorcycle herself, and Tiff was sure that Jess had been hanging around some biker bar. She wondered why she was so sure.

It was a few weeks ago Tiff decided that was what happened. Why? Because Jess stopped talking about it.
Duh!
Obvious as soon as she thought about it. Was she having sex with bikers? Wow, you heard pretty wild things about bikers clubs. All exaggerated, Tiff was sure. But still.

She snuck another glance at the bikers. They were pretty hot, in a rough kind of a way, but definitely hot. They didn’t look like any of the boys in med school, that was for sure. She gave her attention to her veggie nibbles.

Tiffany casually noticed with satisfaction that the two Blades men were still in sight. In fact, they had hardly moved. They still didn’t seem to have registered her tiny faded denim skirt or her black stockings, torn across her thighs and laddered all the way into her short, patterned cowboy boots.

Not even the deep scoop of her t-shirt seemed to have caught their eyes yet. The tee, without too much study, revealed that she wasn’t wearing a bra. That was in case the pert, bouncing nipples under the soft white shirt hadn’t made that point—those points—already.

Tiffany dressed in black, mussed up her dyed-black hair, and wore black makeup so as not to be noticed. She said so all the time.
Deep cover
, as a smart-ass in med school called it. As she stepped onto the up escalator, she thought she saw another man in the bikers’ cut and jeans on the far side of the food court.

He slipped backwards behind the pillar with the clock. It was ten of two. The clock showed its happy face.

When the escalator let her off on the first floor, she saw only the blond biker, but that wasn’t so bad. He was the cuter of the two. Tiffany’s hips rolled slowly as she strutted nonchalantly by, and the heels of her boots snapped nicely on the polished floor.

As she passed him, his scent wound around her, and she felt it land deep in her stomach. It was a dark scent, unusual to her nose but definitely not cheap, patchouli and something exotic, as well as a light but unmistakable sweet-stale whiff of freshly burned weed. Behind all that was the kicker. The only word for that smell is ‘man.’

She slouched to shove open the door to the parking levels, and she just happened to peek back at him. A thrill beyond satisfaction fizzled up through her as she saw him pull up his hood and follow her. He was speeding up.

Tiffany let the heavy door swing closed behind her, and headed behind a partition for the pay station. She sensed that somebody was already there. Before she could look around, a huge gloved hand clamped over her nose and mouth. An arm across her stomach pinned her arms, and squeezed the breath out of her.

Struggling against the force that held her, Tiffany could hardly move her head. She shouted, but only the tiniest grunt escaped past the gloved hand. As her body shook, the restraining arm didn’t move, but the fingers of the hand on her stomach, her abdomen, and her hip pressed in, exploring.

She tried to kick backwards but she was held too tight, forced against the hot, hard body of her captor. She felt the taut ropes of his abs, the tough thighs pressed against the soft cheeks of her ass. Between them, a thick, uncoiling swelling pressed against her.

As she shook and tried to shout, she felt a quick, rhythmic pulsing in the body of her attacker. He was chuckling. It amused him to feel her desperate attempts to kick herself free.

He hasn’t made a move for the purse under my arm
, but her phone, her money, her cards—well, Daddy’s cards—they were all in there.
That must be what they’re after.
Tiffany was sure that was where this was headed. She’d hand the purse over if they’d only let her.
 

Daddy will yell about it, and make it all out to be my fault
, she thought.
Give me endless lectures about being irresponsible and not taking enough care
. Then the insurance would pay anyway. So what? No biggie.

Rapid footsteps thudded from behind and the blond biker stood in front of her. His hood was up and he had a red and black bandana over his nose and mouth. How much more perfect could it be? She is attacked in the car park and the biker is right there to rescue her.

Only he doesn’t rescue her. First he looks hard in her eyes and puts his gloved finger to his pursed lips. Her eyes are wide and afraid now, but she makes a rapid nod. She felt the hot breath of the biker who held her from behind.

He whispered into her ear, “No clever moves, baby. Just co-operate and you won’t get hurt.” When the hand came off her face, the blond biker strapped tape across her mouth.

She tried to shake her head, to tell him,
It’s OK, I’ll do what you say
, but he grabbed her by the jaw. His pale blue eyes burned over the top of his shades. His finger went to his lips again. A tear threatened to fall. He paused to brush it away with his thumb, giving her time to catch a slow breath through her nose.

He turned her by her shoulders. He took her shopping bags and she heard him put them down. As she was turning, she tilted her head to look for security cameras. Someone would see this. She’d be out of this in no time. These assholes were going down.

She located the camera. It was right above her head and there was no way it would have a view of what was happening here. They had chosen their spot. They knew what they were doing. Her hands were pulled behind her back and a tight plastic strap vibrated as it tightened around her wrists.

A dark van pulled up sharply by the pay station and another biker got out. It was the one from behind the pillar when she left the food court. A girl in denim and leather with big shades covering her face and a hoodie up appeared with her hand out.

The blond biker turned her again to face him.
 

His voice grated low, barely more than a scratchy whisper. She felt the strength and intensity when he said, “Car keys, parking ticket.” He pointed at the purse under her arm.
 

She nodded. She tried not to let show that she was shaking. He took the purse from her, didn’t yank the strap, and snapped the purse open, but held the opening towards her so she could see.

He found the pocket in the side where the ticket was, and her car key. He handed them to the girl. He snapped her bag closed, and put it back under Tiffany’s arm. His eyes were hard and cruel, but his movements were soft and kind.

The girl went to the pay station as Tiffany was bundled through the side door onto a bench in the back of the van. The bench looked like it came out of the back of a long-dead Chrysler sedan. Smelled like it, too. The partition between the front and the back of the van had a scratched, milky Plexiglas window.