early 1949 // las vegas, nv

[betagainstme]

Alice was in her element.

The lights, the music, the glamour and glitz of Las Vegas' most exclusive casinos--this is where Alice and her gifts thrived. She had her hair curled and pinned, her makeup perfect, nails painted; her dress stopped just below the knee, a silvery-green color that draped at the waist and was cinched by a belt. Her shoulders were left bare, her neck decorated by sparkling diamonds that matched the ones at her ears.

She steps out of the car with the help of the valet, accepting the man's hand with her own. Turning, she intercepts Jasper as he comes around the side of the car, blinking at the pomp and circumstance of a casino in the late 40's.

They'd hunted extra this week, just before arriving in Nevada, to make sure he'd be okay for this night. His eyes are completely gold now--she's so proud of the progress he's made. And she's very proud of how handsome he looks tonight. His curls swept out of his face, his suit fitting perfectly. He turns his wrist, fixing the watch on his arm, and looks every bit at ease in that moment.

And Alice falls in love all over again.

She steps to his side, fixing his tie before looping her arm through his. "I hope you're ready to win big tonight, Mr. Whitlock." She nods at the bellhop who lifts their suitcases onto a cart and hands her a room key. Alice slips it into Jasper's inside pocket in his jacket with a smile. "I'm your lucky charm."

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[keptherwaiting]

“Well, damn, Alice.”

Jasper laughs, even as he is having a definite reaction to her words, and he might blush if he could.

But if she wants to play it that way -

He presses his fingers to her mouth, running his thumb across the pout of her bottom lip.

“So full, huh?

“I can feel it, y’know, how much you want it. You love my fingers too but it’s not enough sometimes. You love how I work my inside of you, the stretch of it.”

[betagainstme]

There's a flip-flop in her belly, a low burn in the core of her. She inhales, sharply, at his words, shifting at how they affect her. Swallowing hard, Alice takes Jasper's thumb between her teeth, gentle pressure on his skin.

Swiping her tongue over the pad of his thumb, Alice releases him, crawling back up his body to settle herself in his lap. "You're right," she murmurs, lowly, taking his hands in hers and placing them at her waist, watching how his hands overlap at the thinnest part of her. "I do love those things.

"But you," Alice looks at him from under her lashes, shifting against his hips. "You like it too. How tight it is, how small I am. How easily you can just pick me up and do whatever, if you wanted. How I can barely fit you in my mouth, but you love it anyway."

She slides his hands up, to her ribs, just below her breasts as she smirks back at him. "You love the way we fit together, but that we have to work for it. That's poetic, I think. The best things in life do have to be worked for."

[keptherwaiting]

"God, Alice," he groans and then has them flipped in the blink of an eye, pinning her to the mattress.

She did say he liked picking her up and doing whatever.

He presses a kiss to her lips, gentle despite the carnal urges, before he's moving down her body.

"You forgot about how I love using my mouth too."

He settles between her legs, kissing the inside of her thigh when he lifts a leg over his shoulder.

"Swindling the drunks is gonna have to wait a bit."

And then his teeth are on her underwear, tearing them away with ease.

[betagainstme]

Swindling the drunks will not happen again until tomorrow evening.

After all, Alice is going to keep Jasper very busy for the next day.


She still has scars to kiss, after this.