Jon Reskind: Walo_s mistress

"Sometimes, when I feel ambitious, I bake a batch of cookies properly spiced with it," Virgin said. "They're wild."

Lynn nodded; she couldn't imagine such a thing, but if this lovely creature said so she knew it was true. There was something about her… something deep, mysterious, all-knowing! Lynn felt a tiny ripple of delight race through her as she exchanged meaningful expressions with the enchanting girl.

"All right, Earl… let's talk," Rudy was saying. "With your sixty and what the business has made… plus my thirty, we've got it! One hundred thou! And that's what Lopez wanted, wasn't it? Are you still game?"

"What the hell do you think?"

Rudy shrugged and sucked at his cigarette. "It's a gamble, Man. It's always a gamble when you deal in this sort of thing."

"Bullshit! It's cut and dried, Rudy, and you know it! We've been over it enough times. The Blackman will pay two-hundred-grand for the cache!"

"The Blackman could cut your throat, too, Baby!" Rudy snapped, his smile disintegrating. "You ever think of that? That boy's no friend! He wants arms… and any way he can get 'em! Now, Man… you cool it, eh? We don't go off half-cocked! I like the picture too, Baby, but I want to be sure I'm going to enjoy the profits!"

"Ooohhh hell!" Earl spat, shuffling in his chair. "You're building walls that aren't there! Forget the Blackman! Let's go to T.J. and talk to Lopez… first things first!"

"Right, Baby. First things first," Rudy said, sucking at his joint. "Let's go down and see what the man says. Let's not bowl headlong into it, eh? I like this thing called life too much to make any stupid sacrifices!"

"Can a girl ask a question?" Lynn put in, looking from one to the other of them. "I mean… I think I've heard enough already to know that it gives me a strange… and maybe a bad feeling. And remember, I'm new to the whole picture… but… but, do I detect that the sixty-thousand dollars that I sweated out is about to be used in a gamble?"

"There's no Goddamned gamble!" Earl exclaimed angrily. "And furthermore, Baby, there wouldn't've been sixty grand if Earl Carter hadn't died! Eh? Let's get that straight first!"

"No!" Rudy barked. "No, Man, no! What the hell… you're taking away the chick's glory! I mean, with all due respect, Earl! She's got a claim here, eh? Shit, Man, last night you're tearing your hair out, and now you're cuttin' as if you had a blade! Come on, boy! Let's get a hold, eh… eh?"

Lynn stared at her husband, but she felt that she hardly knew him. Her mind was endeavoring to encompass all that had happened since she'd landed in L.A… their love scene, the lurid sights along the hallway, the whole overwhelming picture… but it was too much! She couldn't comprehend… and abruptly, she broke down!

And then, Virgin was on her feet beside her, holding her face… her sobbing face against full, warm soft breasts… "It's all right, Baby… all right… I know… just let yourself string out…"

"Jesus Christ!" Earl swore. "I've had it, Rudy! I want San Francisco! Shit, she's waitin'! Let's make this deal…!"

Lynn heard him but none of her husband's words registered. The warmth and loveliness of Virgin's voluptuous body pressed tight against her had more of an effect; yet, then came the confusion. Other voices… other people in the room made her listen and pay attention. She sat up and looked.

There were two of them, half-naked girls and they looked exactly alike. Somewhere in their teens and wearing bikini bottoms with their long red hair enshrouding their shoulders, they stood there smiling…

"These are the Danes," Virgin said, "Maxine and Annette… but we call them Maxie and Annie…"

"Love you Baby," the nearest one said, "but introductions aren't necessary are they? We're all part of it, eh? Look, Rudy, the broad called Jan… she did it! She's holding out, and there's no shit about it! Mark was with her."

"Calm yourself, Chick! Where is she?"

"Out there! She and Mark… she's higher than the cow that did!"

"Okay, okay… bring her in… and find Walo," Rudy ordered.

Lynn shook her head. She should never have smoked all of that pot. Virgin was still beside her, holding her face in her hand against her breast.

"Just watch, Baby," Virgin said, leaning down. "Don't let it bother you. They go off the deep end sometimes… but you don't let it bother you!"

Lynn made no sense to her meaning; yet she knew it was there. Her head swam; she forced her mind to focus and saw the pairs of naked, full breasts that entered the room with the voluptuous young bodies that supported them… The Danes! Yes… Yes… But who was the poor stripped girl between them… long-haired… dark… long hair with childish eyes that were gaping almost frantically! She was completely naked! Not a stitch! And the man… or boy, holding onto her arms was dragging her back toward the davenport!

"Let go of her, Mark!" Rudy said. "She knows!"

"She's a mercenary bitch!" one of the Danes accused.

"Really…?" Rudy said.

"Really!" the Dane twin snapped.

"Is that true, Jan? Did you cut your friends?" Rudy questioned as Walo walked through the doorway, closing the barrier silently behind him.

Lynn gaped at the lumbering hulk who stood silently waiting by the entrance, and she could see the drool running down from his mouth to ward his little pointed chin. He was looking at Rudy, then at Earl and the others in the room, his beady little eyes lingering on each face with growing anticipation. Finally, they found those of the frightened Jan and he began to grin foolishly, while she took a step backwards, her childish eyes widening in obvious, mounting apprehension.

"Oh… oh no!" Jan gasped, drawing the back of one hand to cover her pretty young mouth. "Oh God, no, Rudy! It wasn't much, just twenty dollars… a tip the john gave me… I was going to use it to get a tooth filled… it's been aching!"

"You're going to get something filled, Bitch!" Annie Dane spat, her hands on her wide, bikinied hips, her lush full breasts swaying with the movements of her angered, if, shapely body. "Believe me, Baby, I've been there: I had to learn the hard way, too! It's a punishment you're not about to forget!"

"Please… please, Rudy… Earl… don't let him…" Jan begged as the Dane twins moved in on either side of her cringing naked body, taking her roughly by the arms and pulling her down to the floor, pinning her there on her back.

"What the hell, Chick, you know the rules!" Rudy reminded her. "Everything goes into the community pot… everything… except the house's twenty-five percent. So, you tried to cut a little… but you got caught… now you pay the penalty. Nothing I can do, Honey… Nothing…" He turned toward Walo and nodded. "Undress, Walo. She's all yours!"

Wildly, Jan began to struggle on the floor and Lynn watched in shocked amazement. The twins were laughing and holding the girl helplessly on either side by the arms, while Rudy, Earl, and the one called Mark grinned lasciviously down at her useless writhing struggles. Lynn gaped up at Virgin in disbelief, but the exotic brunette merely patted her cheek lovingly and held her tighter against her full breast.

"Don't let it frighten you, Darling," Virgin half-whispered. "She's asked for it. They all know the rules; it's share and share alike… There has to be punishment of some sort, and it wouldn't be of half as much value if they didn't administer it themselves…"

"Wh-What's he going to do… Walo, I mean…?" Lynn choked.

Virgin smiled down at her, then stroked Lynn's long golden hair affectionately. "He's going to take her, Baby… which ordinarily wouldn't mean too much, but you haven't seen Walo's tool. Look!"

Lynn did, but not until she'd let her eyes search the beautiful dark ones that were gazing down upon her warmly, while at the same time the willowy girl continued to gently caress the crown of her head and hold her snugly against the soft protruding fullness of her rounded breast.