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I need a thousand more now you see me movies!
I want this shit to have the longevity and absurd amount of movies as the fast and the furious franchise!
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) dir. Ruben Fleischer
🎵 Come a little bit closer baby / Get it on, get it on 'Cause tonight is the night when two become one 🎵
Together (2025, Michael Shanks)
so it goes...
pairing(s): jack wilder (now you see me) x fem!reader
summary: You did a number on me, but honestly, baby, who's counting?
(Or, whoever said magicians aren't hot has never met Jack Wilder.)
words: 7.3k
cw: explicit, smut, fingering, piv sex, unprotected sex, biting, scratching, hypnotism, (absolutely unrealistic 'now you see me' style hypnotism anyways), hand & finger kink, forced orgasms, exhibitionism, teeniest bit of choking, alcohol consumption, hook-up, pick-pocketing, card tricks as foreplay, jack steals our heart AND our wallet, we're ignoring red flags for the sake of the porn, takes place sometime post-first film, no nysm3 spoilers because i haven't seen it lol
a/n: This was born from a fanfiction that I began writing, literally, ten years ago to the DAY of my beginning to write this one. I wrote the first version when I was not the seasoned writer I am now, and I was too scared to just write what I wanted. So, this is a very (very) heavily reworked version of the original I started all those years ago, as an ode to my inner teen, who just really wanted dave franco to seduce her with card tricks. Never give up on that old fic etc. etc.
ALL MY WORKS ARE 18+ MINORS DNI
I'm yours to keep, and I'm yours to lose You know I'm not a bad girl but I do bad things with you So it goes...
You clocked the man at the bar nearly as soon as you walked in; you wanted to eat him for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You liked a man with strong, beautiful hands, and his were perfect. He wore a black leather jacket, and his palm dwarfed the Old Fashioned he drank— or was it a Manhattan? Whichever it was that came with a maraschino.
His forefinger tapped absent-mindedly on the rim of the glass. He leaned back in his chair, then leaned forward. He bounced his leg, then cracked his knuckles, then lifted his drink to his lips. It was like he was doing some kind of nervous choreography that you just couldn't land on a reason for.
You singled him out. Maybe he could tell that you did.
Now, when you sit one seat down from him and order a Nikolashka, you see him glance over at you and smirk in the mirrored backsplash.
"Classy." His voice is boyish and light. You press your lips together and turn to find him peering at you over the rim of his glass, and god help you. His eyes are like two smoldering embers.
"I'm sorry?"
"A Nikolashka. It's very… elegant. Refined." He waves his hand. You track the movement with your eyes hungrily, and you definitely catch the twitch at the corner of his mouth.
"And which are you?" you ask him mildly, "Elegant or refined?"
He gives you a slight grimace as he hisses through his teeth. "Neither." His dimples are something otherworldly, and you find yourself wanting to bite the cheek that made them.
"So, what are you, then?"
"Depends," he hums. He looks thoughtful for a moment, and then squints at you. "How do you feel about card tricks?"
Dark eyes, good hands, dimples, and card tricks. He's going to kill you. "Intrigued."
He chuckles, and sets down his glass with a quiet tap onto the mahogany bartop. Somehow, you've whittled down a spot in the middle of the busy bar where the music is dimmed, the energy is more of a steady thrum than the overall chaos around you. As you slide your drink over one space and sit beside him, you enter a bubble that encircles the two of you, alone.
This close, you see the veins on his hands, each freckle on his cheek. He is objectively beautiful, too pretty for you to look at for too long without blushing. He fishes a deck of cards out of the inside of his leather jacket, and glances at you from beneath unfairly long lashes. "You'll have to forgive me if this sucks. I'm nervous."
"Oh, don't tell me that," you mutter, then take a little sip of your drink. The alcohol wips all the moisture from your mouth. "I expect you to wow me."
"All right. No pressure there." With a little smile, he fans the cards out at you. "Pick a card, any card. Don't let me see. Here—" He claps his free hand over his eyes, then peeks between his fingers at you. "I'm not looking, I promise."
You choose from the center and tilt it towards you, careful not to catch it in the mirror behind the bar. Eight of Hearts.
"Okay, now shove it back in there."
You finally let a little giggle slip. It's absurd, like something a boy would do to impress you in high school, but it's… charming. He's charming you. Which is unexpected, at least, but never unwelcome.
He does a little flourish with the cards, impressively shuffling them in an arc, and flips over the top card of the deck before pronouncing confidently, "Is this your card?"
It is, in fact, the King of Spades. "Not a chance."
"Really? Shit." Looking confused, he pats at his breast pockets, his back pockets. "This usually works. Y'know what, check— check your back pocket?"
You nearly roll your eyes. You've been watching his hands since you sat down, and he knows it. He saw how fixated you are on them, so there's no real way he could have put anything in your pocket—
Except, there is. You pull a playing card from your left pocket, completely shocked. "How…?" It's the Eight of Hearts, but this time, there's something written on it. A phone number.
"Is that your card?"
You've actually been stunned into silence. You look at it for a long time, then at his hands, then at his pretty face, smirking coyly at you.
"Well, I guess it must be," you say, looking at him coquettishly over the top of your glass. "And what name do I write under this number?"
"Jack," he says with a grin. "Jack Wilder."
You know his name, but you can't quite put your finger on where you've heard it, yet. It's like a foggy memory, buried deep down beneath years upon years of media consumption and names of people met in passing.
"Well, Jack Wilder," you repeat, putting extra emphasis on his name. You tuck the card into your back pocket slowly, keeping your eyes trained on him. "I'll forgive you for obviously touching my ass during that trick, as long as you let me buy you another drink."
He blinks at you. "Is that meant to be some kind of punishment?"
"It depends on what you ask for."
At that, he finally laughs. He throws his head back in a sweet way, like he can't laugh without putting his whole body into it. It almost makes you feel smug as you take another sip of your drink.
After signaling for another drink, Jack turns to you. "So, what about you? Do you know any magic?" He draws out the word 'magic' like it's a joke.
You think for a moment. "The only thing I can really do is read tarot. Poorly."
"What? That's actually crazy."
"I know, it's weird, isn't it?"
"No, I mean it's crazy because I have a tarot deck. Right now." Jack reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out another card deck, slightly bigger, and sets it on the bar in front of you. The High Priestess stares up at you from the top of the deck.
"How many card decks do you happen to have in there?" You ask with mild amusement.
"About three at any given time." He shrugs when you shoot him an incredulous look. "It's good to be prepared."
You narrow your eyes at him. "You're not some kind of card sharp, are you?"
Jack cracks a wide grin. "Why, would you hate me if I was?"
"No, I'd just be working that much harder to figure you out."
Jack presses his lips together like he's secretly pleased that you're so fascinated with him, and taps the card deck on the counter. "You could always predict my future, right?"
You snort. "Right." In spite of yourself, you pick up the deck and shuffle it with a lot less flourish than he did. "You know how to read these, I take it?"
"Not really, I just like the artwork. The deck gives me something to do with my hands." There it is, the small clue-in to his demeanor. He has to be moving, stillness doesn't suit him. When he sits still, there's a slight tremor that remains in his hands or in his leg, like he's constantly on high alert. You make a note of it as you shuffle the cards, and then set the deck on the counter, face-down.
"Knock on it three times." You watch as Jack does as he's told, his fist tapping lightly on the cards and looking almost comical in their gentility. You flip over the first card. Death, on his pale horse, stands over a battlefield. You blow out a puff of air. "Well, shit. You're dead."
Jack laughs again. "An excellent observation. You're good."
"Thank you, thank you." With a smirk, you turn over the next card. The Eight of Swords reversed. "Aha. You were holding yourself back, but you finally found your freedom from something, and now you're heading down a new path. Does that sound right?"
He rests his chin in his palm, looking vaguely impressed. "You can do magic."
You try hard not to preen in front of him. "Yeah? That's good to hear."
"So, pray-tell, where is this new path taking me?" He continues looking at you, chin in his hand, like he can see into your mind. You feel like every thought you have is laid out in front of him. You wonder if he can read your entire soul on your face.
You flip over the third card and set it down in front of him. The Lovers.
"I don't suppose you need me to interpret that for you," you say, meeting his eye again, your insinuation hanging in the air between you.
His gaze travels down to your lips just once, and lingers there for a long moment. You don't know it yet— and how could you? It's supposed to be a secret, he is supposed to be a secret— but you terrify him. You noticed him when he had just been trying to get away from reality for a little while, trying to forget that he's on the run, that he has to pretend to be someone he's not. He isn't supposed to be telling people his real name. He isn't supposed to be picking people up in bars and doing stupid card tricks to impress them.
You baffle him. You don't even know how right you are about him, so right that you could probably guess who he is without him telling you, given time. And, unfortunately, Jack has always been drawn to things that could easily destroy him.
Held aloft on that suspension, you don't object when he asks to close the tab.
"Bullshit."
"I swear to god! You can even google it, I won't be mad."
Your combined laughter bounces down the hallway past hotel rooms, televisions echoing beyond closed doors. Your arm slung around Jack's shoulders, he bears your weight with one arm while he carries your discarded heels with the other. When you complained about your feet hurting, he had offered to carry you from the taxi up to your room, but you declined. Even so, you appreciate the gallantry.
"That Jack Wilder— The Four Horsemen Jack Wilder— he died. I remember hearing about it." And you remember now, that's where you'd heard the name. It had been all over the news. Even if you weren't keeping up with Las Vegas magic acts, everyone has at least heard about the magicians-turned-thieves. You couldn't get away from hearing about them if you tried.
"You really don't know how easy it is to fake your own death. Here," Jack chuckles, using his free hand to dig out his wallet. "There, under the top one. My I.D."
You snatch it from him, walking blindly as he advances with you down the hall. You find several I.D.'s, each with a different name, each older than the last— but the oldest, with an address in Brooklyn, bears the name Jack Wilder.
"Cute picture." You grunt and hand the wallet back to him. Not to be duped so easily, you pull out your phone to do a quick Google search on the Horsemen. An image search or two confirms that Jack, your Jack (or so you desperately want him to be), is the Jack Wilder. The same stupidly pretty smile. The same mischeivous eyes. The same arch to his brow.
You spin around, squinting at him, flashing your phone in his face. He looks somewhat bemused, like he was fully expecting it. "Okay. So, you're back from the dead. Any explanations, or will I stay in the dark?"
"Ah… I stole a cadaver and made it have a car accident. It's not that interesting." Jack waves it off, as if it's the most normal thing in the world. "Now I'm just staying under the radar, I suppose. Only thing you can do. 'Lotta people want me, few can have me. You know how it is."
"Merritt McKinney, J. Daniel Atlas…" you read as you meander through the Wikipedia article on the Four Horsemen. "Hey, what does the J. stand for, anyways?"
"Jerk-off." He says it way too quickly for it to not be personal.
You cackle, probably a lot louder than you intended to. You lean back against the wall beside your hotel room door. "So you're telling me that you're this… this ex-David Copperfield fugitive from justice?"
"Hey, I'm not entirely out of commission yet," he insists, holding up his hands, your sparkling heels dangling from the fingers of one. "But yeah, I've been ordering pizza under the name 'Kevin' for about a year now."
"And why didn't you tell me your name is 'Kevin'?" You quirk an eyebrow at him. "Seems like if you're in hiding, it would be safer to keep up the charade."
"Maybe," Jack hums, sounding like he doesn't quite agree. "But, I'm not in the business of lying to girls I want to take home, so."
You let out a little puff of air, unsure of whether to laugh or melt before him. You aren't used to men being so candid with you. "And what if I slammed the door in your face?"
"Well, that would be pretty hard," he tells you, looking upwards like he's really mulling it over. "Considering I have your room key."
"What— hey." You feel at the inside pocket of your jacket, finding no room key-card anywhere. When you look back up at him, he has it extended between his two fingers, and swipes it through the card reader on the door. The lock beeps, and the door swings open to reveal the dimly lit room within. "Unbelievable. When did you do that?"
"In the cab."
In the cab. In the cab, when you were so busy trying not to attack his face or otherwise mount him that you were completely distracted. It must have happened sometime when you crawled into the backseat, and his hands guided you in like the gentleman he'd been, up until this point. The ghost of his touch remained on your waist, but you hadn't felt him stealing anything from your pockets.
You realize then, with only a base amount of embarrassment, that you're biting your lip just thinking about his hands on you. It takes all your strength not to pull him in and kiss him immediately, although you doubt he would object if you did.
"So," you say, leaning against the open door frame, your breathing strained from trying not to let it get too erratic. God, he's gorgeous. And it pisses you off that it effects you so deeply, but you can't help how badly you want him. You've been aching for him all evening, fantasizing about him, trying not to squirm too much at the bar or in the taxi. It's getting to be too much for you, the heat between your legs a constant, demanding presence. "You got any other tricks up your sleeve?"
"One or two."
"Will you show me?"
His grin could light up a stadium. "Sure, I can."
Down the hall somewhere, a door opens. Jack turns his head to look in the direction of the sound, and in that moment you snatch him by the collar of his grey t-shirt and yank him full-force into your hotel room. He bashes into you, tripping over the door jamb, and you kick the door shut before you both slam up against the wall.
"Whoa— easy," he chuckles, his nose bumped against yours. "I promise I'll come willingly."
"I'm counting on it."
With that you finally kiss him, tugging his lower lip between your teeth, and you hear the dull thunk of your shoes being dropped on the carpet. Everything about him surrounds you; the spice of his cologne, the warmth of his body, the taste of the alcohol he drank. His hands slide around your waist to pull you close, and this time you feel it when he slips your room key into your back pocket, tucked right against the card with his number on it— although you figure you only felt it because he let you. His hands on either side of your face, fingers in your hair, he backs you into the corner like it's the only thing he's been wanting to do since he saw you.
"You're so fucking hot," Jack breathes into your mouth, his thumb tracing along your jawline. His fingers could burn a line along your skin, like you might just wake up in the morning to find scorch marks where he touched you.
His kiss is frenzied, almost rushed and desperate— when you break away, gasping for air, a string of saliva connects you by the lower lip. His face is covered in your lipstick, your dark red painting a chelsea smile around his mouth.
"You have something…" You swipe your finger along the trail of lipstick, but he just grins and backs away. You don't know how you look, but you swipe your hand across your mouth for good measure.
"Is it my color?" He doesn't look too worried about the state of his appearance. He frames his face with his hands, posing at you with a sardonic smile. "Does it go with my outfit?"
"Yeah, you look real sexy," you snicker, pulling him back towards you by his jacket lapel. You watch his pupils dilate, his smile faltering for just a moment while you bring your thumbs up and wipe the makeup from his face. "You're lucky I didn't just fuck you in that disgusting bar bathroom."
"Thank god for that." His voice has gone a little bit rough, his easy-going veneer slipping as you trace your fingernail along his cheekbone. "Now I can take my time."
"Touch me," you order, leaving no room for argument.
You expect him to go directly for your waist or your chest, to weasel his hands under your shirt, to remove your bra with some kind of abracadabra, or whatever the hell he does. But, he hadn't been joking about taking his time, and you take a trembling breath when he cradles your jaw in his hand, turning your head like you're something precious, and kisses the spot just below your ear. Your eyes fall shut, and you swear that you really are melting, like he is somehow able to dismantle you with a single brush of his lips.
And then you realize that your earring is missing.
"Jack." You don't even turn your head to look at him. You would be annoyed if it wasn't a little bit hilarious.
"Sorry. Bad habit." His words come out muffled as he pulls your earring from between his lips and drops it into your outstretched palm, looking like he's been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. It glints in the light for a moment before you chuck it aside, hearing it plink somewhere on the dresser.
The placing of your hand on his belt grabs his attention. You tug him close, his hips nearly pressed up to yours, your back against the wall. In the stilted air between your faces, you hiss, "Behave."
Jack's eyelids flutter, his gaze raking over your face once, twice. "I'll try my best."
But he won't. You know that he won't, and you hate that you want him even more for it.
Jack drags his hand down, down, down, running along the curve of your breast, the dip of your waist. He traces the seam of your jeans, startling you with his boldness. You give him a tight gasp and arch against his touch, almost embarrassed with how readily you react to him. His two fingers press against your cunt through the fabric, and you moan as you part your legs for him.
"There we go," Jack whispers to you, his voice light as a feather. When you blink your eyes open, you find him searching your face, his eyebrows slanting upward. "Is this where you want me?"
His fingers split into a V, tracing slowly around the seam, bracketing the outline of your cunt. He drags upwards, avoiding all the places you want him most, and then slides down again, pressing harder. Your mouth hangs open, and you stop breathing, stop thinking, stop doing anything of substance.
"Answer me, sweetheart." His whispered inquiry passes through your foggy mind, but it's the pause of his touch that finally snaps you into a response.
"Yes— Jack, please." You're torn between wanting the upper hand and wanting to give it over to him, but from the way he has you mindless with one touch, you're not sure you ever had the upper hand to begin with.
He pops the button on your jeans without further comment, and there's a touch of his lips against your jaw, a hint of a breath on your neck, and then he dips his hand beneath your waistband. You're throbbing, aching for him and frozen under the weight of his gaze. Then the rough, calloused pads of his fingers dip into your wetness, and you both gasp at the same time.
"You can't have gotten this turned on by my dorky card tricks," Jack murmurs, his fingers tracing a delicate path through the soaking heat of your pussy. Without him even urging you, you widen your legs and push your hips against his touch.
"It's just— I— I like— fuck." You can't think straight, not when he's touching you like that. His fingers swirl around your clit with a precision that's completely debilitating, and he watches you with his eyes just inches from your face.
"'You like' what?"
Your cunt throbs at the rasp of his voice, the slow strokes of his fingers, but you can't look away from him. Not even for a second. "Your hands. I like— like your ha—"
His two fingers drive into you to the knuckle, and you cut yourself off on a whine. Jack flexes his hand, nearly pulling you away from the wall with the force of it, and your nails rake down the back of his leather jacket with a noisy ripping sound.
It's good. It's really, really good, and the sounds coming from you are obscene, the air around you already thick with tension and sweat. His eyes are focused in on you, but they're so blown out that they've gone nearly black. You bite back a moan and lurch against him, trying to meet the slow thrusts of his fingers with your hips and only meeting resistance.
"My hands," he repeats, and his voice is disarming, almost lulling. Jack tilts his head and hums low in his throat, moving so that you keep your eyes on his. You practically wither under his stare. "That's it. My hands on you, inside you. Do you think I could go deeper? Would you like that, too? Feel me, deeper."
You hear a snap somewhere in your periphery, a soft ticking in the background of your thoughts. Like the ticking of a clock, this gentle snap—snap—snap— and you realize that he's whispering to you, but it's so soft you're barely catching the words. He does drive his fingers deeper, curling them in a way that has you keening, held captive in his stare. You still hear that snapping, echoing through your head like a gentle refrain.
"What— What are you doing to me?" Beneath the tremble in your voice is a note of suspicion. You feel like you're falling into him, the space between you is electric, everything else is intangible.
"Do you know what the fun thing about hypnotism is?" Jack asks, his voice quiet, just above a whisper, now. Everything within you draws up tight at the sound of it, coiling up like a cobra ready to strike. His fingers move at a steady pace, keeping you rocking against him. The pleasure ebbs and flows like the swing of a pendulum. "I can make you cum with the snap of my fingers."
It's entirely unpredictable. He has you frozen in place, unable to really move or think, except to dig your nails into his leather jacket and accept that Jack is not like any other guy you'd ever picked up at a bar. Your voice comes out strained when you say, "That's not behaving."
"No," he agrees. "But you don't really want me to behave, do you? You want me to show you my tricks. This is number one." Jack crowds close and spread your legs wider to accomodate, until the only thing holding you up is his body. You have no choice but to let go, and trust that he won't let you fall.
"Shit— Jack." You wilt against him. Hands scrambling for something to hold onto, you find nothing but his hair, his shoulder, the wall behind you. You moan pathetically loud— so loud you're sure it can be heard on the other side of the door, but you don't really care. You don't have it in you to care about anything anymore.
You cant your hips toward him, your toes just barely skimming the carpet, but he keeps the pace slow, deliberate. He swirls his fingers around your clit, sending warmth dancing in spirals along your nerves. Your breath comes out in uneven pants, and your fingers tug on his hair just enough to make him purr, the sound absolutely lighting you up from the inside.
"Ready?" Jack whispers, and you nod without even really thinking about it. Ready for what, you're not sure, but you know you're ready for whatever he wants to give you.
He raises his hand in the air, just beside your head, and he snaps his fingers.
And you shatter.
Your cunt clenches down around the stretch of his fingers, and you yank on his collar, trying so hard and still failing to stay quiet. It pulses through you in quick succession, the tension that's been buidling in you all night finally let loose with his one command.
You've never fucking cum on command before.
Jack's hand slows to a stop, and then he withdraws while keeping himself between you and gravity. His hand lingers just at your waistband while you catch your breath, panting up at the ceiling.
"What the fuck," you wheeze in the comedown, your body still twitching against him. "You— did you really just— just hypnotize me?"
"I did." He sounds just as shocked as you are. His voice is still soft, but that cadence of wanting to lull you is gone. "Although, you're pretty agreeable when I have my hand down your pants."
Covered in sweat from head to toe, you have to shed your jacket just to take back a bit of normalcy. You huff a laugh, then level your gaze at him again. "I guess most people are?"
"I, uh— I wouldn't know. That's a relatively new trick for me." Jack gives a small exhale of disbelief, still completely taken aback. He's flushed up to his ears, his chest heaving almost as much as yours. "Was it… was that too much?"
You shake your head. It was, in fact, so unbelievably hot that you're having trouble even forming the words to express it. You grab his hand, still lingering down by your waist, and bring it to your lips. Jack follows your movements with his eyes, those eyes, his fingertips flexing slightly in your hold. You can't help yourself. You part your lips and take his fingers into your mouth, swirling your tongue around the two that had just been deep in your pussy.
"Jesus." He has the decency to look surprised— he wasn't expecting you to do that. It's almost endearing after all this; after you eyeing them all night in the bar, after him making you cum on them, making you admit your fixation. Maybe he thought you were exaggerating when you told him that you like his hands, but you were serious. You're so serious that you could spend hours just tracing his fingers with your tongue. Doesn't matter if you can taste yourself on them or not.
"Do you think you could do that to me in public?" You ask once you pull his fingers, glistening with your spit, from your mouth. You bat your lashes at him, but you feel like your blood is boiling beneath your skin. "Could you snap your fingers and make me cum in a room full of people without them even knowing?"
Jack's eyebrows shoot up. "Would you want me to?"
"Mmm." You're nodding, moving your hands up his chest and beneath his leather jacket. You meet tension when you cup his shoulders beneath the leather, and he finally shrugs the jacket off so that it lands with your discarded one on the ground. "I'd let you do anything you want to me, Jack."
His eyes dart sideways toward the bed a second before he snatches you around the waist. Jack guides you like he's dancing, his feet staggered with yours. Your shirt is forfeit— it lands somewhere across the room, and later you'll find it hanging off of the floor lamp in the corner. Rough hands meet your bare skin, flesh on flesh, nearly burning in the relief it brings you.
He kisses you and it's all teeth, visceral need punching a hole through the thin veil of restraint he'd been operating behind. The easy pace that he'd set, the quip about taking his time, has gone out the window. It's replaced with desperation and blind desire, the limits of what his patience can handle exceeded. He undoes your bra clasp with a single pinch, yanks at your jeans with a demanding huff. Your knees hit the edge of the bed and you plop down, landing on your elbows.
"God— control yourself." Your teasing falls on deaf ears; Jack is much too preoccupied with getting you out of your jeans, and your heart nearly stalls at the sight of him before you, his hands so sure as they tug your jeans down your legs, a low hum issuing from his throat as he presses a kiss to the curve of your stomach.
"Nope. Not happening, not right now." His palm smooths up your bare calf as though he's trying to map out every part of you he can get his hands on and dedicate it to memory. Jack turns his head and presses one kiss there at the plushest part of your thigh, his dark eyes watching you for your reaction. When you don't pull away or object, he parts his lips and nips at the same place he just kissed.
You sigh and run your fingers through his hair just before you snag the collar of his shirt and pull. Thankfully, he finally gets the memo and pulls it off, tossing it the way of your own shirt. His wavy hair sticks up at odd angles now, his cheeks rosy, eyes wide. He looks so sweet like this, biting his bottom lip, his gaze flicking almost nervously over your face.
But then he raises his hand and snaps his fingers.
"Fuck—ing—?!" No, not sweet. Evil. He's evil. And you're cumming again, completely untouched. All your floor muscles clamp down at the sound of his fingers snapping, and you're thrown into an orgasm. Losing your balance, falling back against the mattress while your cunt spasms, legs spread for his view. You try to close them, but he plants his hands firmly on your thighs, shoving them apart before you can manage.
"You're so gorgeous when you cum for me."
He sounds so cheeky, and you have a mind to smack him. You cover your face, shaking and groaning as the aftershocks continue to pulse through you. How the fuck did he manage it? It's not like before when he had his fingers in your pussy, you were perfectly still, just waiting for him to do something—
"Yeah, I could definitely do that to you in public," he concludes, and you hear his belt clink as he undoes it.
"You little fucker," you gasp, pulling your hands away from your face. There's no real malice in it, you're still breathless while he sheds the rest of his clothes. "You think you can— you can just wave a magic wand and make me cum like that?"
Jack snickers at you. "I thought you said I could do whatever I wanted…?"
His hips are between your legs, and for a split second, you consider letting him continue. You wouldn't mind being fucked into the mattress. But something about his voice, how cute he is even when he's being a snarky little shit, fills you with fire.
You throw your legs around his waist and tip him sideways. Jack makes a startled noise that bubbles up from the pit of his stomach, and he bounces onto the mattress beside you. It's a clumsy mess of tangled arms and legs for a moment before you throw yourself over his hips and sit on his lap, hovering above him on the bed.
"I take it back. You're getting too big for your britches."
Jack doesn't say anything, just blinks up at you and suppresses a smirk while he sucks on his teeth. You can feel his cock beneath you, resting heavy against his stomach. It's big, and so impressively hard that you're amazed he's held off as long as he has. Now, the urgency to take your clothes off makes sense.
"Don't look at me like that."
"What? I'm just looking at you—" Jack shakes his head just a little bit, but he cracks a smile that turns into a laugh. He can't help it.
"Shut—" you slap your hand over his pretty mouth, making him snort, "—up." You drop your hips, and he gasps against your fingers when you grind your cunt against his cock. "It's my turn now, and I'm oh-for-two. I don't like that score."
Jack sucks in a breath through his teeth, his hips jumping at your slow glide against him. It's so wet, made worse from all his teasing, and probably so hot that it burns. He groans, grabbing at your hips with a white-knuckled grip. "Not fair. It's easier for you—"
"Right. Because forced orgasms are sooo fair." You hum low, almost allowing yourself to get lost in the feeling of your clit dragging over the ridges of his cock. You bite your lip, dipping low to press a kiss to his temple and whisper in his ear, "No more shortcuts. We're gonna do this the hard way now."
"You think hypnotism isn't hard?" His voice is so strained. Jack lifts his hand, his chest heaving while he tangles his fingers just in the ends of your hair, twisting it around them in small curls. He rocks his hips against you. "Took me a fffffucking— a year to learn that—"
"Only a year?" Your teeth graze the shell of his ear and he shudders, making a sound that should be absolutely criminal with how sexy it is. "Now you can make me cum whenever you feel like it, but I have to work for it. So fucking. Take. What I give you."
You sit up, raking your fingernails down his chest as you go. Your eyes flick down to watch red trails bloom where they'd been, goosebumps raising on his tan skin. Jack has such a nice body, covered in a thin sheen of sweat, his muscles hard and strong. You tremble on top of him, starry-eyed and nearly taken apart by the little bit of friction between you. You're soaking him, slipping along his length and so close to cumming just from rubbing yourself on his cock.
"Fuck—" Jack takes you by the hips as you lift yourself and ease him inside of you. Then, it's all you can do not to cry out towards the ceiling.
And he's up, holding you in a full-bodied embrace, his arms wrapped fully around you, his hands in your hair and on your waist. He's so deep, and his shifting around keeps sending him deeper, like he's trying to carve out a place for himself inside of you. He hisses in your ear and then… presses a kiss to your shoulder. Gentle.
You gasp once, arching into him when he rocks you a bit in his arms, sending shockwaves shooting up your spine. "You're such a goddamn gentleman."
Jack chuckles, and turns his head so that he can speak directly into your ear. "Well, do you want me to behave or not?"
The tone of his voice practically tears you in half. He's being so fucking condescending. It shouldn't turn you on the way it does, but your pussy clamps down around him and your body tenses in his arms, your eyes glued to the ceiling, your breath catching in your throat.
"Not. Got it." And then he sinks his teeth into your shoulder, where he just kissed you.
It takes you by surprise and you cry out, rolling your hips into his in earnest. There will be an imprint of his teeth on your shoulder— something to remind you for days about this, and about him. The thought consumes you, makes you needy, desperate to leave a mark on him that can compare.
Your nails claw down his back— his beautiful, gorgeous back that you can feel flex beneath your touch, now covered in the same welts you'd raised on his chest. But deeper. Harder. Something that he'll be feeling for days, whenever he takes off his shirt, whenever he lifts his arm.
Jack groans like you've punched him, holding you tight to him as though he's afraid you'll disappear. "You have no idea what you're doing to me," he mumbles, just loud enough for the words to rumble across your skin and make you shiver.
Your muscles draw up tight, your thighs locking up with the strength of it. You jolt against him. "Oh my god, Jack—"
"Are you gonna cum again?" He sounds so fucking pleased with himself. "Already?"
"No… no."
"Isn't that oh-for-three?"
"Jack, shut—" A loud moan breaks from your throat, and you snatch at his hair. You're going to cum. Shit, you didn't want to, not before he does, but it seems you can't stop the effect that he has on you.
"Noisy," Jack murmurs, and ruts his hips up into yours just to hear you do it again. "Gonna let all the neighbors know you're cumming for me?"
"They already do," you grit out. You squeeze your eyes shut while your cunt tightens down, and Jack moans into your ear. "They can fucking hear. I don't care."
"You just really—" Jack chokes on a laugh, breathless as you ride him harder, "—really want people to know I'm fucking you, huh? I can make it quicker—"
He raises his hand from your waist, but you catch it before he can snap his fingers in your ear again. You rear back and smack his hand down onto your collarbone, his thumb pressed into the dip just beside where he'd sunk his teeth in.
Oh. He looks completely fucked out. Glassy-eyed, mouth slightly open with each breath he takes. Your eyebrows tilt up slightly just at the sight, and that was the worst thing you could have done if you didn't want to cum too quickly.
Your intake of breath sounds like a sob. "You're so p-pretty—"
He gasps your name, and it's so quiet that you could have missed it if you weren't watching him, staring at his lips with every intent on kissing him. You yank him toward you with both hands, cradling him like he's the most perfect thing in the world, and you plant one on him. His hand tightens just slightly, where it rests against your throat, and you can't fucking believe it.
You cum. Just like that, with his hand on your neck, holding you in place. You moan into his lips, arch against him, and grind down like you can somehow get him deeper while your cunt spasms around his cock.
It's not fair. He can't just— he can't just make you do that by simply existing, by just looking and talking the way he does, it's not fucking fair—
"Oh, fuck." Jack tenses and rocks his hips up into you, his brows pinched together and his eyes tightly shut. He moans so beautifully, his breath sweet in your mouth, and he cums, rutting up into you as hard as he can. Your limbs feel fluid, completely spent, but he holds you to him like he can't get enough.
He doesn't let go, at first. He stays with his hand on your throat and his arm tight around your waist, crushing you against his chest while he gasps for air. His nose pressed into the crook of your neck, just where his bite mark is starting to smart. Your legs feel like jelly, but you can at least lift your hand, dig your fingers into his hair.
Peaceful. It's peaceful, is what it is. It's soft. You wouldn't have expected Jack to be the perfect balance of hard and soft, to change whichever way he fits. He's a surprise from all angles.
Finally, you collapse with him onto the bed, a jumble of boneless limbs pulled down into a sleepy stillness. Except he's not still, not entirely. In the periphery of your awareness, you feel him tracing his fingertips along your spine. He outlines little shapes across your feverish skin, listening to your breathing slow.
"You're not—" Jack begins after a moment, then pauses, and starts again. "You won't be here tomorrow."
He sounds vaguely sad about it, like he'd been hoping you'd stick around for a little while.
"No. Headed to Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon. This was just a stop-over." You sigh and curl into him, a little too exhausted by everything to even consider how you hadn't mentioned anything about it to him. You figure he just put two and two together, considering you're in a hotel room and not an apartment.
"Hm. Better get some sleep, then."
You're all too willing to take his suggestion. Just before you drift off, you feel his fingers tangle in your hair, just at the nape of your neck, twisting around and around in tight circles. Never still. Always moving.
You aren't surprised to wake up without Jack in your bed. You're only minorly disappointed, since you stupidly wished that he'd be there to say goodbye with another couple rounds. But it makes sense that he would be the type to leave without saying goodbye.
Figures. You always fall for the emotionally unavailable ones.
You are surprised, however, to be turned away by airport security while trying to get into the gate at JFK. When the TSA agent asks to see your I.D., you grab for your wallet. You don't find it in your jacket pocket, where you were sure you left it last night.
But you do find, in its place, a single playing card with a phone number on it.
"Mother fucker." In spite of your rage, while you pull out your phone to dial the number so you can get your fucking wallet back— because you fucking know he did this just to keep you in New York, just to see you again, the little shit— you can't help but smile at the words scrawled beneath it.
Jack Wilder. Here's trick number two.
NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T (2025) dir. ruben fleischer
a jack in the deck | jack wilder
pairing: jack wilder x reader summary: you and jack were a classic example of toxic exes -- people who couldn't stay together but couldn't stay away. one way or another, you always ended up back in his arms, and then on a flight back to where you belonged the next morning. today is different though. jack walks in on a dinner date in your apartment. and of course, he's totally jack about it. themes & warnings: JACK WILDER is a warning in his own bc youll end up pregnant over the internet, jealousy, slight yearning, argument and swearing, jack being an ass, toxic exes is like my fav trope, spice but not quite smut, angst if u squint with resolution!!!
you knew deep down that this would be a fruitless attempt.
your date was cute, yes. he had exactly what you would've looked for years ago. blonde hair, blue eyes, a sharp jawline and muscular arms. he was respectful (he'd agreed for your first date to be at your apartment because of your hesitancy), he made you laugh, he did everything right. and he wanted you. you could tell. it was obvious in the way that he gravitated towards you, made you his priority in every time he was in your presence. in reality, he was perfect.
too perfect, unfortunately. this wasn't the first time you'd tried this. and every time, your mind flicked straight back to jack.
you envisioned the dark curls instead of the blonde. the deep brown eyes instead of blue. and jack definitely wasn't perfect, so perfect rubbed you the wrong way, as much as you wished it didn't. jack wore a watch with a black leather strap. bradley's (your date's) was all silver. jack smelled like cedar and something dark, mysterious, and pleasant. bradley smelled like clean linen and citrus. regardless, you tried to smile in his face and act like you weren't comparing him to your ex boyfriend in every waking moment.
for your date, you wore a strapless dress and minimal silver jewelry, something bradley had bought you and gifted you before he'd even asked you out. you worked with him at your corporate desk job, the job you'd decided to take after leaving the horsemen behind (and attempting and failing to leave jack behind). he didn't know jack wilder existed beyond the magic shows he heard about that he never attended.
bradley didn't like magic. he preferred realism.
and here he was, wrapping his arms around you from behind as you prepared him a plate of what you'd cooked together. his citrus cologne hit you hard, and his skin was cool. to be honest, it felt wrong. but you tried to flourish.
"y'know, you'll make someone a really good wife someday." he murmured in your ear, a grin on his dimpled face.
you scoffed inwardly. forcing a smile, you gave him a side glance.
"i hope i'm more than that." you chuckled, handing him his plate.
bradley just laughed, a smooth, easy sound that should have been charming. "of course you are! i just mean.. this. you're so put-together. a great job, this amazing apartment, and you can cook? you're a total package." he said it like he was reading from a checklist of desirable traits, his blue eyes sparkling with approval that felt more like an assessment than adoration.
you led the way to your dining table, the candles that had been lit flickering and casting soft shadows. it was a scene from a movie, one you'd tried to direct a couple of times now. the elegant dinner, the handsome suitor, the promise of a normal, stable life. a life without heists, police sirens, or the heart-pounding thrill of watching jack wilder perfectly execute a trick that stole from thousands.
a life without him in general.
"so," bradley began, cutting neatly into his chicken. "the quarterly reports are finally done. thank god. i was starting to see spreadsheets in my sleep."
you nodded, taking a sip of wine. "tell me about it. my eyes are still crossed."
this was it, the conversation of the life you were supposed to want. it was safe, clean, predictable. and with every word about corporate synergy and weekend golf plans, a little piece of your soul chipped. you were completely and utterly bored. you missed chaotic, nonsensical arguments about the best way to palm a stolen keycard, whispered debates in the back of a van. but you didn't miss it when it was happening. so, you suffered. did you even really know what you wanted?
"you're quiet tonight," he noted, tilting his head. "everything okay?"
"just tired," you lied smoothly, another skill you'd honed before you'd ever met him. "it's been a long week."
he reached across the table, his hand covering yours. his skin was smooth, grip firm and certain. "well, i'm glad i'm here to help you unwind." his thumb stroked your knuckle. it was a gentle gesture, but it felt misplaced. like he was stamping his clean-linen-and-citrus reality onto you. the reality was suddenly incredibly heavy. but then again, you'd asked for this.
you forced another smile, your heart a trapped bird beating agains the cage of your ribs. "me too," you said, the words tasting like ash.
as bradley took another breath to speak some more corporate words, you heard a rattling. it chilled your spine, like ice cold water being thrown over you in a bucket. you knew this sound. it was the sound of a torsion wrench and a pick, moving with a practiced, impatient rhythm. the sound of jack wilder picking a lock. breaking in, like he had time and time before. Just never into your apartment before now.
what the fuck?
"uh--" bradley began, standing from his chair, his brow furrowed in confusion. "is that... your door?"
before you could form a lie, a denial, or a plan, the deadbolt clicked over with a final, deafening thunk. the knob turned, and the door swung open as if he owned the place.
and there he was.
jack wilder stood in your doorway, silhouetted by the hallway light. He was dressed in his usual uniform of a dark henley and a leather jacket, his hair a mess of dark curls, his expression a carefully constructed mask of casual arrogance that didn't quite reach his eyes. those deep brown eyes scanned the room in a split second -- the candlelit table, the two plates of food, Bradley standing there in his crisp button-down -- and a slow, dangerous smirk spread across his face.
you cursed over and over in your head. of course. of course he'd pick now to come barreling back into your life. right when you just started (poorly and miserably) figuring things out.
"hey, sweetheart," he said, his voice a low drawl aimed straight towards your chest. he completely ignored the other man in the room. "door was sticking. you should really get that looked at." he stepped inside, closing the door behind him with a soft click. his presence instantly made the spacious apartment feel claustrophobic.
bradley puffed out his chest, the picture of affronted normality. "excuse me? who the hell are you? and how did you even get in here?"
jack finally deigned to look at him, gaze flicking from his blonde hair to his leather shoes with utter disinterest. "i'm jack," he said, as if that explained everything. a light smirk crossed over his face again. a smirk of mischief.
walking over to you, as if it was nothing, as if he hadn't just not seen you for six months, he lifted your hand by your wrist. he stroked a finger along the back of it, pointing out a fact to bradley. the heat of his touch burned. old memories, an ache in your chest blooming. you tried to loose your wrist from his grip, but he kept you there.
an intricate tattoo was what he intended to show the corporate man. a playing card -- a jack of hearts, the suit cleverly woven into the design of his signature flourish. your shared little secret, inked into your skin -- possessive, reverent. you hadn't paid to get it removed yet. you weren't even sure that you wanted to. you thought it might erase the memory of him.
a cocky air surrounded him, his lip curving even deeper into his signature smirk. "see? jack."
bradley stared, his face a comical mix of confusion and dawning outrage. "what is that supposed to mean?"
"it means," jack said, his voice dropping, losing its playful edge and turning into something low and possessive, "that i was here long before you were," he hummed, his thumb brushing over the tattoo in a gesture that was far too intimate for the setting, "and now i'm back."
he finally released your wrist, but the ghost of his touch remained, a brand. he looked from the tattoo on your hand back to your face, his eyes searching yours, the smirk gone, replaced by a raw, unguarded intensity that stole the air from your lungs.
"you gonna introduce me to your friend?" he asked, the question a challenge, his gaze daring you to lie, to pretend he was nothing.
you glared at him, e/c eyes hot and fiery. you could've burned a hole straight through him if it were possible. the ache in your chest worsened the anger. the audacity of him just threw gasoline all over the flame.
"this," you gestured towards the confused, irritated man before the two of you, "is bradley. my date. which you are currently interrupting."
jack's eyes flicked back to bradley, giving him another once-over that was somehow more insulting than the first. "bradley," he repeated, letting the name sit in the air like it was a joke. "i'm jack. y/n's fiance." he said smoothly, extending a hand to the man. bradley, obviously, declined to shake.
"fiance?" bradley bit out, his gaze turning to you.
"ex fiance!" you hissed. you wanted to strangle jack, to wipe that smug, ignorant smirk right off his face. "we are not engaged."
"semantics, honey," jack said with a dismissive wave of his hand, as if the distinction between being engaged to someone and having been engaged to them was trivial. "we had a little disagreement over the wedding planning. she wanted a big church, i wanted to elope in macau after a high-stakes baccarat game. you know how it is. women."
bradley looked like his brain was short-circuiting. "macau? baccarat? what the hell are you talking about?!"
jack could've glowed. he was so far under bradley's skin that this couldn't possibly be working better. glancing at his watch, he looked back up at the man.
"look, bradley, it's getting late. don't you think you ought to be going? it was great to meet you though."
the last part was definitely a lie. on the inside, jack was seething.
bradley's face flushed a deep, mottled red. he looked from jack's infuriatingly calm face to your furious, conflicted one. the perfect, predictable script of his evening had been torn to shreds. "i'm not going anywhere. y/n, are you going to let him talk to me like this? to just barge in here? he literally broke and entered. that's against the law."
you opened your mouth, but no sound came out. this was the moment of truth. the moment to side with the safe, stable, normal life you'd been trying to build. the life jack didn't want. to finally shut the door on wilder, heists, and dirty money for good.
but jack saw your hesitation. he pounced on it like the predator he was.
he didn't say a word to bradley. instead, he turned to you, voice dropping, losing all its mocking edge and becoming low, intimate, and devastatingly honest.
"tell him to leave, y/n," he murmured, his eyes holding yours, refusing to let you part with them. "or tell me to stay. one of the two."
the challenge hung in the air, thick and heavy as candle smoke. it was the simplest, yet most impossible, choice you'd ever been faced with. or maybe not. the choice to leave jack in the first place rivaled it. bradley stood there, a monument to everything good you should've wanted. and jack was beautiful and destructive -- you were so, so tired of fighting the burn, taming his fire.
your heart hammered against your ribs, a frantic, trapped bird. you looked at bradley's hurt, confused expression, then back at jack's raw, waiting one.
the words left your lips before you could stop them, like vomit.
"bradley," you whispered, unable to look at him. "i think you should go."
bradley scoffed, sputtering.
"are you fucking kidding me?"
the words were a whip-crack in the tense silence. he stared at you, his face a canvas of disbelief and wounded pride. "after all this? the dinner, the jewelry, the.. this?" he gestured wildly at the set up, now rendered a pathetic farce. "you're choosing a criminal who just broke and entered your aparment, then harassed me?"
jack didn't even flinch. a slow, victorious smile spread across his face, his eyes never leaving yours. you wanted to slap it off him.
"i'll call you. just please leave."
"no she won't." jack intercepted, the infuriating smile still pasted to his face.
"unbelievable." he snapped harshly. he grabbed his jacket from the back of the chair and stormed out, slamming the door so hard the pictures on the wall rattled.
the sound of the door slamming seemed to hang in the air, a period at the end of your attempt at a normal sentence.
the second the latch clicked, the smile dropped from jack's face. the victory was gone, replaced by something darker. the raw need you'd seen flickered in his eyes, unchecked.
"you're not gonna call him. what were you even trying to accomplish?" the question was quiet, deadly.
"you don't get to ask me that," you fired back, the anger you'd been suppressing finally boiling over. "you don't get to barge in here, ruin my life, then act like you have any right--"
he crossed the space between you in two swift strides. "i have every right!" he snapped, his voice rough, his hands coming up to grip your arms, not hard, but firm enough to stop you from pulling away. "that tattoo on your hand gives me the right. every night we spent together, even after you left gives me the right. the fact that you just sent mr. perfect packing for me gives me the right."
"you're impossible," you seethed, but you didn't even try to pull away. his touch was like a brand, burning into your skin and awakening every nerve ending. "why are you back here, jack?! what did you come for, huh? after SIX fucking months!"
the question hung between you, a raw, bleeding thing. all the bravado, the smirk, the conman's cool -- it all shattered. his grip on your arms loosened, his hands sliding down until he finally let go of you, opting to run a hand through his messy hair.
"because i can't breathe without you!" the confession exploded out of him, raw and ragged, his voice cracking on the words. "is that what you want to hear? that i'm a fucking mess? that everything is empty, every win is bullshit, because you're not there to see it?" he belted out, eyes desperate and intense. "that i tried -- god, i fucking tried, to be what you wanted, to be normal, but i can't. i'm not. and you won't just ACCEPT ME!"
the silence that followed was louder than his shouting. his chest heaved, the admission hanging in the air like gunpowder smoke. this wasn't the smooth talking thief. it was the boy from the foster system, the boy who felt he didn't belong anywhere, the one who was so terrified of being ordinary that he became a talented legend, and was now terrified that the one person who mattered saw him as a monster.
your anger simmered, borderline dissolved, washed away by a tidal wave of painful understanding. the six months of silence wasn't him moving on. it was him trying and failing to become someone else, someone you'd approve of. and failing miserably.
"jack.." you started, your voice soft.
"don't," he cut you off, his voice a broken whisper. he wouldn't look at you now, staring at a spot on the floor as if it held all the answers. "just.. don't. tell me to leave. tell me to go fuck myself, i don't know. but don't pity me. i can't stand it."
you exhaled shakily, staring at his slumped figure, his head in his hands at your kitchen table where bradley had been sitting 15 minutes ago. "i don't pity you," you whispered, the words firm and clear. "i see you. i've always seen you. you're brilliant, you're wild, and you're so much more than that if someone looks deeper. but you can't change yourself. you can't try to be anything other than who you are."
he looked up, his eyes dark pools of pure, unadulterated torment. "so tell me, y/n. what do you want me to do? because i can't do another six months. i can't do six fucking days more of this. i don't want to sleep together and get back on a plane tomorrow morning because you think i'm a mistake." he huffed, eyes beginning to gloss over. your chest ached. you wouldn't be able to handle it if he cried. "so either you tell me to walk out that door and never come back, and i'll spend every day of my life trying to forget you, or.. or you let me stay."
he was laid bare before you, no tricks, no lies. just jack. the hungry, broken, impossibly brilliant boy he was, and always would be. your greatest addiction and the only place you'd confidently called home. a tear dripped from the gathering moisture in his eye, trailing down his cheek. it felt like a personal, isolated hit to your heart.
you crossed the space between you, the world narrowing to the sound of his ragged breathing and the sight of that single, devastating tear. you didn't speak. words had failed you both for far too long. instead, you knelt in front of him, your hands coming up to cradle his face.
your thumbs gently wiped the moisture from his cheeks. his eyes, wide and shocked, searched yours, his breath catching in his throat. you leaned in and pressed a soft, lingering kiss to his forehead, a seal of forgiveness and acceptance that you never thought you'd reach. the two of you were too stubborn.
then, you pressed another kiss to his damp cheek, a promise. finally, you brought your lips to his, not with the frantic heat of your past, but with a slow, deep certainty that felt more binding than any failed vow. when you pulled back, your forehead rested against his.
"stay," you breathed, a final surrender and a new beginning all at once. one you'd been begging for in other men, corporate jargon, leather shoes and new york department stores. "no more planes, unless we're both on them. no more goodbyes. just stay."
a shuddering sob escaped him, and he collapsed against you, his arms wrapping around your waist and face buried into your chest. he held onto you like a man clinging to a lifeline in a stormy sea.
"okay," he rasped, his voice muffled against your skin, grip tightening. "okay. thank god."
as you held him, surrounded by the ruins of what you thought you wanted but truly never did, you knew you'd chosen right. you weren't taming him. you were standing next to him, giving him the love and respect he'd never gotten before you, and receiving his endless, fiery love back.
two weeks later
the city air was a crisp, welcome change from the stuffy, recycled air of the various venues you and jack had been haunting. your hand was tucked securely in his, his thumb tracing absent-minded circles over your knuckles. more specifically, over the substantial, art-deco inspired diamond now sitting back on your ring finger. it felt less like a piece of jewelry and more like a reclaimed piece of your soul.
"told you that italian place was overrated," jack mused, a smirk in his voice. "the chef was palming pre-grated parmesan. amateur."
you laughed, shaking your head. "shut up, wilder."
"make me," he countered, pulling your hand up to press a quick kiss to the jack of hearts tattoo, his eyes glinting with possessive warmth.
and that's when you saw him. bradley. he was standing outside a coffee shop, phone to his ear, looking every bit the part of the life you’d almost condemned yourself to. jack's steps faltered for a fraction of a second, his entire posture shifting. the relaxed, post-lunch contentment evaporated, replaced by the coiled-spring energy of a predator spotting easy prey. a slow, wicked grin spread across his face.
"oh, look. its brad," he said, his voice dripping with cheer.
"jack, no," you groaned, but it was too late. he was already steering you directly into bradley's path with a fervor.
bradley looked up from his phone call, his eyes widening as they landed on you, then on the nightmare jack wilder was, and finally, inevitably, on the glittering rock on your left hand. his jaw went slack.
"well, hey there, bentley! long time no see," jack said, his tone impossibly bright. the misname made it even more insulting. he didn't stop walking, forcing bradley to take a step back or be bowled over. as he passed, jack's free hand shot out with the speed of a striking snake. it wasn't an aggressive shove, but a deft, practiced flick of the wrist.
bradley fumbled, his coffee cup popping out of its sleeve and splattering liquid all down the front of his pristine, light-gray pants.
"whoops! clumsy me," jack said without breaking stride, not even looking back. he leaned in close to your ear, his whisper a hot, triumphant caress. "looks like he's got a little excitement in his life now, after all."
you glanced over your shoulder briefly. bradley was staring down at the massive stain on his pants, phone forgotten about, a picture of utter, flustered humiliation. as you turned back to jack, you watched him open a sleek, black wallet in his hand. not his. bradley's license photo glared at you grumpily.
you stopped dead, your eyes widening. "jack. when did you--"
"about two seconds before the coffee decided to take a walk." he said with a wicked grin, flipping through the cash compartment. he made a show of pulling out the bills. "let's call it a dry-cleaning fee. a very, very small one." he then snapped the wallet shut and, without another pause in an incredibly quick motion, sent it sailing sideways into a nearby city trash can without even looking at it. the thunk was barely audible over the street noise.
he tucked the cash into his pocket and laced his fingers back through yours, the cool metal of your engagement ring pressing between them. "our dessert is on bradley tonight. and, you know.. his coffee is on him too."
he was the worst. he was a criminal. a menace.
and as he pulled you into a searing, messy kiss, tasting of victory, italian food, and stolen cash, you knew you wouldn't want him any other way.
Dave Franco Regretting You (2025) dir. Josh Boone





