I crawled over beside his leg and leaned against it. He scratched the top of my head. I put one hand around back and inside his leg, raised my fingers until I felt the head of his cock hanging inside the moist cloth. He slipped his hand forward through my hair, down over my face; he put his third finger in my mouth. His hand was hot and rough on my jaw. I sucked and tongued on the bitten crown and felt his cock grow.

“Goddamn,” Jimmy said, sitting back on his knees.

I could only see him out one eye; Hogg’s hand was over the other.

“Mr. Jonas is really on the ball, hey?” Jimmy wiped his chin. “I been lookin’ for an excuse to get my face in this pussy here for so long now.…” He shook his head.

Denny rolled the girl off him. She thumped onto the floor and just lay there. Denny sat up and pulled his pants back up over his knees.

“It was really beautiful to see you guys giving it to that bitch back there. You know why I wanted to get at her?” Jimmy got to his feet. “You know why I wanted Mr. Jonas to get somebody to get that bitch back there? When we was doin’ work for Mr. Jonas, she and some motherfuckin’ boyfriend—”

“I don’t know why you wanted to,” Hogg said, “and I don’t want to know.”

“—her motherfuckin’ boyfriend, can you imagine,” Jimmy said.

“Shut up, motherfucker.”

Jimmy got sort of a funny look. “Well, I mean … well, she pulled some real shit, you know?”

“She right back there,” the nigger said, “if’n you wanna work her over some more.”

Jimmy turned, frustrated. “Hey, nigger, you—”

“Hey, nigger, what?” the wop asked. He had his knife out. Not open; just playin’ with it. He still wasn’t grinning.

Jimmy shifted his weight to the other hip. He looked a little funny; the funniness turned into a smile.

A moan came from the back.

Jimmy’s lips opened even wider over the buck teeth. “Yeah, I wouldn’t mind that at all. I really wouldn’t. ’Cause that bitch …” He looked down at the girl, then up at Hogg. His face twisted, all the lines got deeper; he brought his hand up in front of his chest. “Well, I got my reasons!”

The nigger laughed. “Come on.”

He and Jimmy went into the back.

The wop was standing near the girl’s head. He’d put his knife away. Now he opened his jumpsuit all the way down to the crotch, took out his dick, and frowned at it. Denny came up to him, reached for the ring

“Get the fuck out of here!” The wop knocked Denny’s hand away.

“You gonna fuck her?” Denny looked down at the girl.

Hogg pushed another finger in my mouth. “Go on, you dumb guinea. Let’s see you fuck her.”