Jimmy's Game (Ruthless) (45 page)

Propping himself up on his elbow; he gently stroked her head as he looked down on her, tears were rolling down her face onto the pillow. Kissing her head he said, “It doesn’t matter babe; it’s my fault for wanting you; it’s simply the effect you have on me,” cuddling her he added, “Come on let’s get some sleep.
” She rolled over, while he just laid there looking at the ceiling, finally his erection subsiding. It was the first time she hadn’t responded to his sexual advances. Laying there he couldn’t help but wonder if she’d told him everything. His feeling was that something more must have happened with the Jamaicans, he knew his Maria was tougher than this, he remembered how she had suffered with Nick, yet still she stayed strong. In his mind he was convinced there was more to it. He lay awake for hours thinking about it before finally dropping off. When he woke the next morning she was not in the bed. Getting up he headed for the lounge, she was sitting looking out of the window.  “Morning gorgeous,” he said. Slowly she turned to look at him, her eyes were red and swollen it was obvious she’d been crying.  “Hey what’s wrong babe?” he said as he moved towards her. Putting his arms around her, she fell into him and sobbed. Trying to comfort her he said, “Come on babe, it’s going to be ok.” “I’m so sorry Jimmy; if I’d listened to you in the first place none of this would have happened.” “It’s not your fault babe; it’s Samuels who’s to blame.” “If only I had taken things more seriously, I would never have gone into work. Or at the very least I would have accepted Leon’s offer to wait with me.” Jimmy could see she was near to tears again, so he tried to lighten the mood by saying, “I know just what you need to make you feel better, some of my scrambled eggs!” Trying to smile she replied, “Shall we settle for a bowl of cornflakes?”

Throughout breakfast she kept looking at him while she ate. Unable to let it go he asked her why. Lovingly she replied, “I don’t understand why you love me so much, or how you put up with me.” “You’re very easy to love and it should be me asking how you put up with me.” Before she could reply she yawned. “Are you tired babe?” Nodding she replied, “I am but I shouldn’t be; all I’ve done is sleep.” “You’ve been through a tough time and the rest is good for you. Why don’t we go back to bed for a couple of hours, it’s only quarter past eight. I promise I’ll behave myself.” “Ok, I do fee
l tired and it is still early.” Jimmy was in bed first, as she got in he said, “Can I give you a cuddle babe?” Moving closer to him she replied, “You don’t have to ask,” as she laid her head on his chest. Waiting until she was comfortable, he said, “Babe I want to ask you something; but I don’t want you getting upset.” Finding his hand that was wrapped across her and gripping it she replied, “I promise I won’t.” Gently stroking her hair he said, “Babe what else happened with the Jamaicans?” At first she didn’t reply; but he coaxed her by adding, “I know something did.” Sitting up she looked down on him, the tears began rolling down her cheeks, as she blurted out, “They said horrible things to me Jimmy, and they put their hands all over me. I tried to fight them off but if Shaun hadn’t turned up when he did, they would have raped me. I was so scared; I thought they would kill me.” “I know babe, calm down. Now tell me what they said to you.” Trying to talk through her tears she said, “It was horrible, they told me that their boss wants to fuck me and once you’re out of the way there would be no one to stop him. They said after they’d all fucked me, they’d put me to work in one of their brothels in Jamaica.” He noticed as she tried to continue, she was becoming hysterical. Hugging her until she calmed down, finally she carried on, “They taunted me by saying, that every day I would be getting,” she stopped and just sobbed, momentarily unable to talk, she just held him. Desperate to know what had been said to her, he said, “What would you be getting?” Crying she blurted out, “Big black cocks!” Breaking down she sobbed uncontrollably. Holding her tight he said, “They were just trying to frighten you babe; even if I couldn’t protect you, there would be other people that would, Shaun and Mickey to name but two. Anyway you don’t even have to think about it, because it won’t ever happen.” Although he remained calm, inside his anger was raging. Eventually she calmed down and said, “I’m sorry about not wanting sex last night. It wasn’t anything to do with you, but I felt dirty where the Jamaicans had touched me. I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you what was wrong.” “It don’t matter babe, but I’m glad you’ve told me now, for a minute there I thought I’d lost my sexual prowess!” “Behave, you know I’ve always loved it when you touch me; it was just I couldn’t get the Jamaicans out of my head.” “Babe, I don’t have a problem waiting till you feel better.” Their conversation was interrupted by his phone, it was Justin. Not wanting her to hear, he got out of bed and went into the lounge, using the excuse that the reception was poor.

“Alright Justin, what’s up?” “Just letting you know Jimmy everything’s finished. Shall I drop the keys off to Mickey?” “That’ll be great; I’ll sort you out in a couple of days if that’s ok? Only I haven’t got any wheels at the moment.” “No worries Jim any time. I think you’re lady will love it; mine does, she saw it yesterday and fell in love; so if you decide to sell it in the future; just give me a bell.” “Right you are Justin, thanks again mate, catch you soon.”
Whilst talking on the phone he hadn’t heard Maria get up, she was standing in the doorway. Looking confused she said, “What’s happened to the car?” “I had it crushed babe; there was evidence linking us to the Jamaicans.”  “What evidence?” Jokingly he replied, “Roughly, about three pints of their blood! We’re getting a Mercedes in a couple of days. If you feel up to it, I’ll take you for a drive.” “Great, who’s Justin?” The look on her face told him that when he replied, “Just a friend;” she was suspicious. Wanting to cheer her up he continued, “I’ve bought you a surprise gift, Justin’s sorting it out for me.” “A gift,” she said curiously. “Yeah a present which I was going to give you on our wedding day, but under the circumstances I think I should give it to you sooner. So I might just consider giving it to you early, but we’ll have to wait until we got the new motor.” Only a few moments had passed when her curiosity got the better of her; unable to stay silent a moment longer she said, “My present, is it something big or small, or something to wear, was it very expensive?” Laughing he replied, “You’ll just have to wait and see.” “Oh Jimmy that’s so unfair.” “If I hadn’t have told you in the first place, you wouldn’t know anything about it.” “But I do and it’s going to drive me crazy!” “I’m not telling you, so you’ll just have to wait.” Slapping him playfully she said, “I can’t wait, you’re so horrible!” “Patience is a virtue, or so I’ve heard?” “Argh, you’re so infuriating!” Jimmy just laughed.

Throughout the entire day she kept trying to find out what the surprise was, but he was giving nothing away.

Since their talk that morning, he could sense that she was feeling better; especially, when she said, “You could go the club with Mickey for a couple of hours tonight if you wanted to?” “Nice try babe, but I’m not telling you.” “No honestly I didn’t suggest it so you would tell me what my surprise is.” “You little liar, anyway I’m quite happy to stay home with you.” “Now who’s a little liar,” she said jokingly. “No honest babe, although if Shaun could come over and keep you company, I wouldn’t mind popping out for a couple of hours.” “You’d best give Shaun a ring then.” “Thanks babe, now can I have a kiss?” She smiled, walked over to him and kissed him passionately. Jimmy knew with that kiss his Maria was back, whatever trauma she’d felt from her attack by the Jamaicans was over.

A short time later he called Mickey, “Alright Mick, can you pick me up later, my good lady has said I can go out.” “Great, actually I’m just on my way round to your place; you won’t believe what a fucking day I’ve had! I’ll be there in a couple of minutes.” “Ok mate I’ll see you soon.”  Ten minutes later he arrived at their apartment. Maria was the first to greet him as she said, “Hi Mickey, how’s Monica?” “She’s much better babe thanks, she sends her love and asked me to tell you that she’s looking forward to seeing you when you feel up to it.” “I’m feeling much better, so hopefully I’ll get over to see her within the next couple of days.”
“Yeah you do look better babe.” It was five minutes later when they were sat drinking coffee. Mickey said, “Samuels has been round to the club and our plan worked like a dream.” “Fuck me what happened,” asked Jimmy. “Samuels called into the club on his own. Tony and Shane were there with me. Samuels asked if any of us had heard anything concerning some Jamaicans, apparently he’d heard a rumour that a local restaurant had some bother with them, and he just wondered if it may have been one of our restaurants. I could tell he was pissed off, especially when I said all our places were fine. He did ask where you two were though.” “Cheeky bastard,” said Jimmy. “Anyway, I decided against the flu theory, just in case he said he would call round. I told him that Maria had roped you into going shopping for the wedding and chances where you would turn up at the club any minute.” “Good thinking, the last thing we want is him turning up here, the slimy bastard!” “There was one thing I thought was strange though, he asked after Maria several times.” Jimmy looked angry as he replied, “How do you mean asked after her.” “You know, is she looking forward to marrying you, he didn’t think you’d be her type, that sort of thing.” “He wants to watch I don’t punch his fucking lights out!” “Just ignore him Jimmy; he’s just trying to wind you up.” “Yeah and he’ll fucking know all about it if he does!” “Well we won’t give him the chance, so do you want to know what happened at the club or not?” “Course I do, go on.” “Samuels asked if we had a phone he could use to make a private call; he wouldn’t use the public phone in the club, so I asked Tony to take him to the office. I told Samuels he wouldn’t be disturbed there. He’d only been gone about ten minutes, when he came out, thanked us and promptly left. Soon as he’d gone we watched the tape. I’ve brought it round for you to see, just wait ‘til you see the slimy bastard in action.”

Jimmy played the tape. They watched as Samuels took a large bag of cocaine and a roll of tape from his pocket; then he pulled out the metal filing cabinet and stuck the package to the back of it. Jimmy said, “That mother fucker is definitely getting what he deserves now!” “With luck the tape alone will be enough to send him away for at least ten years. With Samuels out of the way our only problem will be the remaining Jamaicans.” “We can take care of them. What’s happening about the drugs?” “I gave them to Tony, he thinks they could be worth about a hundred and twenty five grand to one of his buyers, he’s setting up a meeting for tonight.” Taking in what his friend had just said Jimmy replied, “It won’t be long before the
Old Bill are tipped off by Samuels, then they’ll be round to search the club. It would be best if we could stop it before it happens and another thing, we’ll need to cover our tracks if the tape can be used against us. The first thing the drug squad will want to know is where the drugs are now.” “Already thought about that, I’ve come up with a plan; but we need to get Samuels back to the club. Once he’s there we’ll get one of the lads to call the office phone on his mobile. Whoever answers it, can tell Samuels the call is for him; that way we get him on tape entering the office. Then, unfortunately for Samuels the tape will malfunction, so nobody will actually be able to see him presumably take the drugs back, or leave the office. Monica thinks we’ll probably get a visit from the drug squad within the next twenty four hours. Samuels won’t leave it too long in case someone else finds the drugs, shame we already have! She also thinks that calling his bluff would be a good way of stalling him; I think she may be right, if he thought we were interested in selling the club, it will bring the Jamaicans to us. We have to assume Samuels doesn’t know that we know he’s the man behind them; so if we put the word out via him, he will have no choice but to send the Jamaicans round to talk business.” Nodding his head Jimmy said, “I can see the logic in the plan; but how do we tell Samuels that we want to sell the club?” Grinning he replied, “Monica could get him to the hospital on the pretext that she’s remembered something. I would just happen to be there at the same time, so I could just mention that we thinking of selling.” “Fuck me Mickey it just might work.” Happy that Jimmy agreed, he said he would call Monica and get her to set it up. Twenty minutes later she had rung him back to tell him that Samuels was going to visit her around seven that evening.

Maria asked Mickey if he would like to stay for dinner, readily he replied, “I’d love to but only on the condition that I buy it. You should rest and not have to worry about cooking, so I’ll send out for something.” “Ok, but I don’t mind cooking.” “I know, but I insist.” “Thanks then.” “No worries, I’ll call back round once I’ve spoken to Samuels at the hospital.” As he
was leaving, Jimmy jokingly said, “Good luck with the dodgy detective.”

After Mickey left, Maria was still trying to guess what the surprise was that Jimmy had said about, but he was adamant that she would have to wait.

It was turned eight o’clock, when Mickey returned from the hospital. They were keen to hear what had happened. Grinning he said, “Monica fed Samuels a line about some threatening anonymous calls she’d had prior to the shooting, Samuels asked her why she hadn’t said anything sooner; she acted very blasé and said at the time she had simply put it down to some hoaxer.” “Nice one,” said Jimmy. “It was after she had talked to him about that, I chatted to him about us. I told him it was your idea about selling the club, reason being you wanted to spend more time with Maria after you were married. I dropped the fact that you want to try for a family straight away as one of the principle reasons. I led him to believe we knew a couple of people who might be interested in buying Sweet Cheeks. I even added that Tony would at the very least deserve first refusal. Samuels seemed more than interested, he even asked me what sort of figure we would be looking at, he didn’t flinch when I said, five hundred grand or there abouts. Cheeky bastard even mentioned the Jamaicans, said something like, ‘rumour has it some Jamaicans are interested in your club.’ When I questioned him about it; saying that we hadn’t spoken to any Jamaicans, the cheeky bastard sneered and said, ‘come now Mickey, do you really think I don’t know what’s been going on? I know you’ve had trouble with them; there’s not much that happens that I don’t hear about, despite the fact that you and your friend Jimmy keep trying to cover it up, I know all about it.’” “How did you reply to that Mick?” “I simply bluffed my way out of it by saying; we didn’t want an issue made of it, because it could be bad for business, plus the fact; we don’t think the Jamaicans would be back.” “What did the slimy bastard say then?” “Funnily enough he disagreed with me, stating that in his opinion they would be back. I have a strange feeling about Slimy fucking Samuels; it won’t be long before we hear from him via our Jamaican friends, especially as I let him know that there were other potential buyers interested. So now we just sit tight and wait.”