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People all around us cheered A couple of theh the crowd to place a hand on ood luck I was too excited to find it creepy My heart was going a million miles a minute

“Mr Afsal,” the dealer interrupted “I’ll need you to watch while I count out your winnings”

“Of course” He stepped aroundout stacks of chips

I took that asjust a er to check outa deep purple button-down shirt that probably had my face print on the front of it now but was immaculate from the back His pants were jut normal black dress pants, but they fit hi twenty thousand wasn’t nearly as big a deal to him as it would be to me

I took one last look and slipped off back toward the slotabout what that kind of money would e, of course, but I would spend a little of it now Maybe we’d go on trip together somewhere fun, like Disneyland Maybe even Disney World, if I was feeling really spendthrift

I found my friends exactly where I’d left them Elyse turned to me as I sat down, her expression stern

“Sorry, that seat—oh” She smiled “Skyler You’re back!”

The rest of the girls glanced down at me from the line

“We thought you’d got lost,” Heather said

“Sarah wanted to send a search party,” Ariana added “I told her you’d make it back to us eventually”

“You told me she probably fell asleep somewhere,” Sarah objected

I laughed “You guys won’t believe what actually happened”

“If it’s crazier than the idea of you falling asleep on a busy casino floor, then I’ back froirls followed suit, until I had a line of cheery faces waiting to hear my story

I told theuy at the craps table and about his lucky throw Before I even had the chance to tell the he was, Elyse interrupted to ask if he was sexy