It didn’t matter that she was the victim in this crime, she was still the best person to help as far as I was concerned.
“What’s that?” he asked dryly.
“I want to put a wire on this girl,” I said.
“Out of the question,” Captain Markel replied without hesitation.
“But Sir,” I started, but he cut me off.
“Did you even think for one second what would happen if he found that wire on her? You already saw that the man has violent tendencies, especially toward this woman. Not to mention, there aren’t a lot of places to hide a wire when they barely wear any clothes,” he said.
“Understood, but I promise he’s not going to find it. We’re going to wire it into the seam of her panties, and she’ll be able to wear it through her routines. No one is going to have a clue it’s there,” I said quickly.
“What about when she gives a lap dance to someone?” he asked.
“There’s a no-touching policy. You know that. There’d be no reason anyone would find the wire in her panties.”
I sat back in my chair and looked at him with all seriousness. “Please. If I have your permission to get a wire on her, we’re going to be able to hear for ourselves everything that’s going on. That’s going to give any evidence we need to get him off the street and behind bars.”
Captain Markel thought for a moment. I knew I’d given him a convincing argument, but now it was up to him. I sat silently, hoping he’d give in. At last, he did.
“Do what you feel is best, but don’t you dare put any innocent life in danger with this little scheme of yours. If there is so much as a fraction of a chance she’s going to get caught, I’ll pull the plug,” he said.
“Thank you, Sir,” I said with a smile as I rose from the chair. “You won’t be disappointed.”
“I sure hope not,” he replied.
18
Sky
I gave myself one last look in the mirror before grabbing my purse to head out the door. It was one of my days off, and I was meeting Jack for the first time since the night he’d spent on my couch. He invited me over, telling me he would give me a ride back personally if he had to.
He was worried about me being followed again, and though I assured him I was fine, he wasn’t going to listen. So, I was on my way. I no longer tried to convince myself I was doing it just for my safety. I wanted to look good for him. I wanted him to see there was more to me than my job.
I wanted him to see there was more to me than my circumstances. Sure, he probably helped a lot of women out of their problems, but I didn’t want to be just another success story for him when it was all said and done. I wanted to be so much more.
I sneaked out of the back of the apartment complex and into a waiting cab. I knew it was supposed to be an emergency exit only, but our landlord didn’t bother to maintain the place as well as he should, and the alarm didn’t sound when I walked through.
I was glad to see it was the same cab driver as the other night, and he seemed amused to see me again.
“How’d it go with our plan the other night?” I asked.
“They quit following me right after I drove past this place,” he told me as he pointed back to my complex. “What about for you?”
“I’ve never run so fast in my life,” I said with a laugh. “They stopped outside for a moment, then drove off. They left rubber on the pavement.”
“I saw it the next day. I thought I’d drive by and make sure you weren’t lying dead in the yard or something,” he said.
I smiled at his comment, morbid as it was. “I appreciate it.”
We drove in silence, but I was in a good mood. I knew I was taking another risk going to Jack’s, but he wasn’t at all afraid of these men, and I wanted to see him. I felt safe when I was around him, and I was still sure Rocco wasn’t going to do anything to me at work.
After paying the cab driver, I headed inside. It was the first time I wore a dress in front of Jack, and I felt girly in it. Sure, I spent a lot of my time in lingerie showing off my body, but I never felt like I did today. Today, I felt sexy and fun. I walked up the steps and into the complex, only looking back at the street after the door had closed behind me.
I knew the sun reflecting off the glass would keep me shielded in case there was a car there. But, to my surprise, I didn’t see anyone. Perhaps they had taken the day off from following me. I wouldn’t let my guard down, but it did feel good to not see that black vehicle ominously behind me.
I fluffed my hair and put on a big smile before knocking, but my smile became even more genuine when Jack opened the door. His face was everything as he looked me over from head to toe. “Damn. Come on in.”
“Oh, this old thing?” I joked with a laugh.
“You look good all the time, but damn,” he said again. “You hungry? I thought I’d cook.”
The apartment smelled amazing, and I was, in fact, starving.
“I am hungry, but you didn’t have to go through all that trouble,” I told him.
“It wasn’t any trouble,” he said. He pulled out chicken Alfredo and served the two dishes, then he set them on the table. “I talked to Captain Markel, and we’ve got the wire.”
“Really?” I asked with wide eyes. The idea of it put another knot in my stomach, but I powered through. I’d been feeling so much more confident with Jack in my life, and I didn’t want to revert back to my old ways.
“Yes, but he’s only going to let me use it if you’re sure you’re not going to be too close to Rocco,” he said.
“What’s too close?” I asked.
“You’ve never given him a lap dance?” he asked. He looked at me hard, and I quickly shook my head.
“He’s never asked for anything like that,” I told him. “Good,” Jack said. “But I’m going to leave this up to you. The last thing I want is for you to be in any kind of danger. If something were to happen to you, I don’t know what I’d do. If I was responsible, I’d never be able to forgive myself.”
“You won’t be,” I told him with a quick shake of my head. “Trust me. He’s never asked for anything like that. We just put on the wire, I’ll get what I can, and I’ll give it to you.”
I was surprised to hear myself talking. It didn’t sound like the same girl I had been for so many years. I sounded bold, brave even. Jack nodded, clearly happy with my own confidence.
“After we’re done, I’ll show you how to put it on so you can do it with your lingerie at work,” he said.
“Oh shit,” I said. “There’s a problem.”
“What’s that?” he asked.
“I’m not wearing any undergarments,” I said with a mischievous smile.
It was hard for me not to laugh at the difficulty he was having focusing on his plate of food “Is that going to be a problem?”
“I don’t believe you,” he said with a small smile. “You’re going to have to prove it.”
In reply, I rose from the table and moved back a few steps. Jack looked surprised once more, but I kept going. I reached up to my shoulders and pulled my dress down, revealing my tits. He blinked as he stared at them. I knew he enjoyed them the night we hooked up, but he now had the chance to see them in full daylight.
“And the rest?” he asked. I was sure he thought I was going to pull my dress up, but I didn’t. Instead, I just let the whole thing fall free. My dress landed in a heap around my feet, and I stood naked in front of him.
“Believe me now?” I asked.
He didn’t answer. Instead, he put his fork down and rose from the table, walking over to me and taking my breasts in his hands and kneading them. I closed my eyes and leaned my head back as he bent down to nuzzle his face into the crook of my neck. Reaching up, I wrapped my arms around him, intertwining my fingers.
Jack stopped kissing my neck and looked down into my eyes, but my chest was already rising and falling with anticipation. He bent forward again, but this time our lips met in the middle. He wrapped his arms arou
nd my back, squeezing me to him.
I let go of his neck and brought my hand down the front of him, pressing my hand firmly to the bulge that was in his pants. He was already rock hard, and I was getting wetter by the second.
“I don’t think I’m hungry for pasta anymore,” I whispered.
“Me either,” he nodded. He put his hands to my waist, and I jumped up, wrapping my legs around him. I kissed him as he carried me back to his bedroom and laid me on his bed. I was so eager for him, I could hardly contain myself. I pulled at his shirt, letting it fall to the floor.
He was clearly aroused, needing me with the same carnal lust I had. He pulled his pants off and was on top of me in a second, his hands all over me, my hands all over him. We kissed and licked and nipped at one another, each eager to taste the other’s flesh.
He ran his hand over my pussy, and I closed my eyes, arching my back and letting him pleasure me with his thumb. I expected him to push into me as he had done before, but Jack was full of surprises. With a grin, he flipped me over on the bed, exposing my ass to him.
With a light slap to my right ass cheek, he sent a thrill through my body, and I cried out in pleasure. He eased himself down over me, his dick pressing into me from behind. He put his hand over mine, intertwining his fingers through my own.
There wasn’t any need for asking this time. It was clear what we both wanted. Jack pushed his cock into me. I was so wet and ready for him, and he was rock hard for me. I moaned, pressing my ass back into him as he took me from behind.
I loved how deep he got but I wanted him deeper still. I slid myself back on my knees, practically sitting on him as he pounded into me. In and out, in and out. I was so wet, the movement was swift and powerful. Thrust after thrust he drove into me, and I moaned, taking him and letting him pull out again.
I spread my legs and dropped my chest, taking him even deeper. I was so close to climax, I felt on top of the world. It was hard to breath it felt so good, and I nearly screamed with pleasure as he tugged on my hair.
“Say my name,” he said. “I want to hear you say my name.”
I was gasping, breathing in light, shallow breaths. He made me feel better than anyone else in the world ever had. Each thrust took me closer to coming, and when it finally happened, I screamed out his name at the top of my lungs.
“Oh God, Jack! I’m coming, I’m coming!” I said. He moved his hands from my hair to my waist, holding me still as he pounded into me a few more times.
“Fuck Susie, me too,” he gasped. His voice was low and gravelly, turning me on even more. I felt his cock buck inside me as he emptied himself fully into me. Sitting back, I took him as deeply as I could, smiling with pleasure.
Jack held himself inside me for a moment as we both caught our breaths. Finally, once we’d stopped panting, he slipped out of me and pulled me against him as he laid on his side.
I snuggled into the warmth of his arms and felt my lids grow heavy.
So much for dinner.
19
Jack
I looked over my shoulder as I walked up the path to the door. There wasn’t anything suspicious in sight. As an officer, I knew what to look for. If there was someone following me, I was confident I would have seen them on my way.
Still, I had taken extra precaution driving to Sky’s place. I’d wanted to get the wire on her before her next shift, but since she had shown up to my house naked on Sunday, I hadn’t had the chance to do so.
Of course, I felt it was a fair trade. I would much rather have my dick inside her than try to figure out how to get a wire hidden in her panties. But still, it was Tuesday, and she was going back to work. I felt time was growing short with the other men in town, and I really didn’t like the fact they were following her around.
I knew they were keeping an eye on me too, but I didn’t give a shit. I could handle them with my department at my back. I wasn’t scared of a few low life, mobbed up scum bags. I just wanted to keep Sky safe. I watched in all directions as I pulled near to her complex, and I parked a block away and around the corner. I was even more cautious as I walked up to the door, but there wasn’t anything that jumped out at me.
Once I was inside the building, I felt a lot better. It was unlikely there were men hanging out in there watching for her, so I could breathe easier as I walked up the stairs and to her door. I had the wire in a bag slung over my shoulder, but I’d intentionally carried a computer bag so anyone who saw me wouldn’t think anything of it.
A backpack would have been too suspicious, and I didn’t want to put the thing in my pocket. The only real solution was to bring a bag, but one that didn’t attract attention.
I smiled when Sky opened the door. She was dressed in a simple hoodie with jeans, and she grinned back at me. “Come in, please.”
“Thanks,” I said. “You look good. Though I might prefer your outfit from Sunday.”
“Which one? The one I showed up in, or the one I put on during dinner?” she asked with a flirty grin.
“More like the one you took off during dinner,” I said with a smirk.
She grinned and I felt like I was floating. I realized then that I would do anything I could to make her smile like that as often as I could. If she needed me to be her hero, I would. If she needed me to just to listen, I would do that too. Shit, I’d stand on my head and sing show tunes if that made her smile.
No other woman in my life had ever made me feel like she did. She was far from the weak, frightened victim I’d once thought she was. Rocco may have still had her under his thumb, but she was fighting like hell to get out. She was willing to risk her own safety to be with me and help me take him down.
When the dust of the case finally cleared, she and I were going to have a long talk. I wanted her to know that she wasn’t just a case to me. She was a hell of a lot more. And I wanted a hell of a lot more from her. With her.
“So what do you have for me?” I asked. “Besides a beautiful body?”
“You’re making it hard to concentrate!” she complained, but there was still a smile on her face. “This is what I usually wear, but every now and then I wear one of these.”
She showed me three sets of lingerie, and it was difficult for me not to get aroused just at the sight of them. I was tempted to tell her to model each one so I could refresh my memory, but we had to get down to business.
“Alright, let’s go with the one you wear most often,” I told her. “That’s going to make it easy.”
“What do you want me to do?” she asked.
“Pay attention. I’m going to show you how this thing works, then I’m going to show you how we’re going to put it in the seam.” I said with a grin. “We could take a pair of scissors and put a small slit that the wire could slip right into...”
“That could work.,” I said. She grabbed a small pair of scissors and cut the slit like she said, and I pulled the wire out from the bag.
“That’s it?” she looked at it in surprise.
“Yeah, what’s wrong?” I asked.
“I just thought it would be a lot bigger,” she said.
“No, these things are meant to be small so you can wear them and no one can tell,” I told her. “Otherwise we wouldn’t be able to do half the shit we do with them.”
“Are you going to be listening in the entire time?” she asked.
“Possibly. I’m going to talk to Captain Markel at the station and see what he wants to do,” I told her. “I’m heading there as soon as I’m done here.”
“So you’re going to be sitting there all night listening to me?” she asked in surprise.
“Not me, we have a team that’s responsible for that. They inform us ground crew if we need to go in, or they record what they need and take the wire from you later,” I said. “Now, put this on and let’s make sure you can’t see it.”
She smiled as she dropped her jeans right in front of me. She reached down and slid the panties down her legs, and it took all the willpower I had n
ot to reach out and grab her body. I could easily pull her close to me and have my way with her all over again, but we had to focus.
Sky pulled her skimpy bottoms up, and I made sure the thin wire didn’t bunch in the fabric. “Okay. Now say something.”
“Like what?” she asked.
“Wait, not yet. I’m going to go into the other room and put on the headphones, then I want you to just talk. It doesn’t matter what you say, just anything. I’m going to make sure we can hear what’s going on,” I told her.
“Okay, the bedroom’s in there,” she pointed, and I took the bag with me. She had even more bras and lacy panties spread about on the floor in there, and I wished I could go through her full collection. She had to look like a goddess in anything she put on, and I hoped the day would come when I could see it all.
“Go ahead!” I called out after I put on the headphones. I turned on the machine and waited, hoping that it would work.
“What do you want me to say?” she called out. I knew she was speaking loud enough I could hear her outside the headphones, but I was also getting her loud and clear inside. Her voice filled my head, and my heart could have burst.
“Anything you want!” I called out.
“Okay,” she said. “Um. Testing, testing, one, two, three. How’s that?”
“Perfect,” I called out from the bedroom. “I can hear you loud and clear.”
“Damn, this thing must be sensitive. I’m glad to know I can talk normally and won’t have to shout or talk like people are hard of hearing.”
“Yeah, we want it to be as normal as it can me,” I said, coming back into the room as she was fastening her jeans. She laughed at the disappointed look on my face.
“Upset you missed the show?” she asked.
“Yeah, actually,” I responded with a grin. “I could get used to you just hanging out in your underwear.”
“Of course you could,” she teased. “I’ve got to get ready for work now, though. Is it going to matter how long I have this thing on? I mean, can it get, well, wet?”
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