Chapter 6

That shit with the warden had to be dealt with and swiftly. Riley walked toward the phone and leaned against the wall, waiting in line. The guy in front of him offered his place, but he refused politely. Now wasn’t the time to look impatient; the guards were watching him, and he couldn’t trust any of them. Clear as fucking day, they had their loyalties straightened with the warden.

They probably thought he was some shmuck, some rich idiot, ripe for pushing around. The warden talked high about not threatening him, but Riley hadn’t been born yesterday. The fuck was the guy’s problem?

He was too damn greedy; that was his problem. Riley made a bored face while he punched in the number.

“Cobra.” The guy on the other end sounded both as insolent as ever, but still happy to hear him.

“You know those cookies you brought me when I broke my arm in junior high?”

“Need something baking?”

“Yeah. I want my woman to see how good they taste. And my uncle.”

“Your uncle from the other side of the town?”

“Yeah, that’s him.”

“Alright. I’ll send someone soon.”

Riley walked away and smiled at the guard watching him.

“In the mood for cookies, Cobra?” The guy sneered at him.

His grin widened. Yeah, they were watching and listening in, the fuckers.

Dylan couldn’t say if the attention he now got for being Cobra’s new woman sat well with him. Especially since two guards followed him so closely that he felt the need to ask them if they wanted something. He was a changed man since he had walked in that place, so he kept his head down and his mouth shut. But it was still fucking unnerving to feel those two so close, up in his business. He operated the sewing machine, trying to look focused on his work, but his shoulders were hunching on their own accord.

When one of the guards put one hand on his shoulder, a guy called Martinez if he remembered well, it took him everything he got not to jump.

“Mrs. O’Connor, come a little with us.”

Mrs. O’Connor? That didn’t sound right, and the way the guard said it, like it was some good joke, either. He nodded and put his work away. Martinez walked in front, the other was right behind him.

“What’s this about, sirs?” Dylan asked politely.

“You’ll see. Are you in a hurry? Some big date with your spouse?”

“No, sir,” Dylan replied and held his head down.

The small interrogation room gave him the willies.

“Sit.”

He obeyed, then clenched his hands together and held them in his lap. The guard who played the subordinate stood so close if he moved his head one inch, he’d bump right into the man’s crotch. Martinez sat across from him, dragging the chair on purpose and looking at him intently.

“Cobra fucks your ass,” he started.

“He does what he wants,” Dylan replied.

A smack upside the head convinced him right away that it wasn’t some courtesy call.

“Don’t play the wiseass,” Martinez warned him. “Or Butch here is going to show you that you don’t get to play with us, bitch.”

So Butch was the name of the gorilla trying to push his dick in his face. He was really subtle about it, too.

“Now, the matter here is simple,” Martinez said. “Look at me when I’m talking to you, inmate.”

Dylan looked because there was no other choice for him. Whatever he could read in the guard’s cold eyes, it wasn’t any good for him.

“All the pillow talk, everything Cobra shares with you, what you will make him share with you, you come to us with it.”

Dylan nodded. “He doesn’t say much, though. I mean, I don’t exist for him more than as holes to fuck.” He didn’t intend to beat it around the bush and pretend he didn’t understand what they wanted from him.

Butch caressed his cheek with a fat finger. “A pretty thing like you,” the gorilla said, “I bet you can make him talk.”

Martinez looked at his pal with mocking eyes. “Pretty thing? I get why the other lowlifes locked in here think so. But you, too?”

“A mouth’s a mouth. And he’s got a cocksucking mouth on him.” Butch caught Dylan’s chin hard and made him look up.

Martinez let out a sigh. “You have about one year more, and you’re out. It’s up to you. It can be hell, or it can be sweet, sweet heaven.”

“Sweet heaven? I doubt it.” Dylan looked at Butch while talking, because the asshole hadn’t let go of him.

Butch grinned. He was a huge asshole that, out of uniform, most probably looked more like he belonged with the thugs he held behind bars.

“Let me show the bitch what waits for him if he says ‘no’,” Butch said.

“Are you going to take long?” Martinez asked.

“No. Open your mouth, bitch.”

Dylan had to admit that he had had it with how often he had been called that ever since he had set foot in this hellhole. A part of him wanted to refuse, to tell them to fuck off. That was the problem with hope. When Riley started treated him like a human being, Dylan had begun to have that, a little bit of hope.

And now, he was going to get skull-fucked by that gorilla and put back in his place, where he belonged.

Butch didn’t waste time and pulled out his cock, just as thick as the rest of him. Dylan closed his eyes and opened his mouth. Was that supposed to be his punishment? He had been practically sucking dick to survive for a while now. Nothing new.

The slap made his head sway and almost hit the table. His ears were ringing. Butch laughed. “You’re going to look at me while you suck me off, you cunt.”

Dylan just nodded and turned slowly. He looked up, and Butch grinned.

“Just to be clear,” Martinez said in the same bored voice, “it’s not going to be just the cocksucking. We’re going to bank on you, letting every piece of shit in this place do you how they want, while all the guards won’t see anything. Do you understand?”

Dylan nodded, his eyes still on Butch. The gorilla was using his cock, now pushing it through Dylan’s lips.

“Wouldn’t want to give your family some sad news,” Martinez added.

What a joke. As if his family cared. No one had visited him ever since he had been locked up. Or after he had left home.

He didn’t even have the luxury to close his eyes and pretend to be somewhere else, while Butch squeezed his nose with two fingers, forcing him to gasp and take that thick cock deeper. Dylan struggled against the suffocating sensation, and that only made his tormentor laugh.

“Let the poor fucker breathe,” Martinez said. “We need him alive.”

“You don’t understand how good it feels to have them struggling like this around your cock. I’m telling you, man, it’s fucking it.”

“I have a wife and kids,” Martinez said in a disgusted tone. “Just let go of his nose.”

Dylan breathed in, panicked yet relieved, as soon as Butch let him. Then, as he had expected, his head was grabbed and the asshole skull-fucked him for a few minutes that felt like years, until he unloaded his balls in Dylan’s throat.

He was trembling when Butch pushed him away. To get some time, he pulled out his handkerchief and wiped his mouth.

“Don’t take these as idle threats, because they’re not.”

“What, exactly, do you want me to do?” Dylan asked, keeping his eyes down. By now, he should have been used with that kind of treatment and the taste of jizz at the back of his throat. Still, he felt ill in his stomach as if he’d been deepthroating and swallowing for the first time in his life.

“Cobra has a soft spot when it comes to women. Ask him anything and he’ll give it to you,” Martinez explained.

“I’m not a woman.”

“You’re his woman. In a place like this, it’s enough. A guy wants to get his dick wet, he’s going to make do with whatever’s available. You’re good enough for that, Hill.”

His last name was still better than ‘bitch’. Still, Dylan winced, hearing it. He had given up on it like some old sweater, but it wasn’t like others in the world cared about his sensibilities.

“This is what you’re going to do. Casually, like you just want to make conversation, ask him about his businesses. He has many of them. Find out where he can be hit. Where he cooks the books, things like that.”

“Why would he confide in me? I’m a stranger. Ask his woman. The real one.”

“We asked her. She gave us plenty, but it looks like Cobra and the missus are not on the best terms lately. So, she’s not up to date, so to speak. We know he’s managing his little empire even while he’s here. We need to know what he’s up to.”

“He might not tell me anything,” Dylan pointed out.

Fuck his life. Either way, he was screwed. By these assholes, if he didn’t come up with proper information, or by Riley, once the guy found out Dylan was crossing him. And he would find out, Dylan was pretty sure of that. After all, who was he, Dylan Hill? A dumb bitch.

“Try your hardest, sweetheart,” Butch said while caressing his hair in a gesture of false affection, “or I’ll have to try my hardest with you, and I can tell that you won’t like it. Is it clear enough for your stupid little brain?” He knocked on Dylan’s head, hard and hurting.

“He’ll do that,” Martinez said like he wanted to placate his pal. “Now, let’s take him back to his work station. The inmate needs to earn his keep.”

They both laughed at that, like it was some crude joke. Dylan bit on his bottom lip while he was marched out of the interrogation room.

His life was fucked.

Riley had come to develop a special sense ever since he’d been nothing but a scrawny teenager trying to get ahead in a world with guys bigger and meaner than him. That sense told him when people were hiding something from him.

And pretty little Dylan was fidgety and scared, huddling on his bunk bed, shooting glares at him, like he didn’t know whether to start cussing at him or begin crying.

“What is it?” he asked while leaning against the door and watching the prison life go by. Minutes until lights out, and then he’d be able to unspook Dylan out of his whatever that was with a good fuck, which he also needed.

“Why does it have to be something?” Dylan asked.

Even his voice was trembling. Riley didn’t turn to look at the guy. What could it be? With women, there was always something. Outside, he wouldn’t even struggle to guess. He’d just flaunt his money, telling the woman to pick whatever color she wanted, be it shoes, purses, cars, or fucking puppies. “Because you want to say something to me, something you think I’d think it would be unpleasant for me.”

“Like what?”

Riley wanted to bang his head against the door a little. “And you’re wondering why I’m telling you you’re like a woman. Just look at you, trying to hide what you want, when you know very well I’ll find out.”

Dylan remained silent.