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“Uh-huh Just don’t bitch to e because you lost all your money at poker tables”

“I’ll just get a loan from you, Cap”

“I knew it!” A guy at the table points at en, the teaht?”

“Yes, sir” Pike shakes the guy’s hand, but my focus is on the woman next to him

She’s pretty, with dark wavy hair and hazel eyes fra lashes In a plain black shirt and very little makeup, she’s not dolled up like every other wooes to work, and I realize she’s watching the other players at the table Her gaze lands onelse is there, too What is that I see in her eyes?

Confidence She looks one-hundred-percent colint in her eyeswo with relief when I see that it’s bare

The dealer is a younger guy, and hewith e to him, and my heart rate kicks up like it does before a face-off The dealer gives her a grateful look, his eyes as adoring as a puppy dog’s

Her shts up her whole face and low It’s all I can do to look away froame

I try, though I fold the first few hands, just to getbets

“Auy at the table who flopped a pair of aces croith satisfaction

The gorgeous wo other players instead When she locks eyes with ht is that I don’t want her to turn away I need to keep her attention on me, and before I even have time to think better of it, I wink at her

I fucking winked I’ve never in ood at it I probably looked like a teenage kid with so inat her newly dealt cards

As soon as the guy in the chair next to her gets up, I instinctively grab o sit next to her But an older Blackinto the empty seat

“Gia, how’s it going?” he asks her

“Can’t co at him “How are you?”

“I’onna head over to the Bellagio I heard there are soht You want to join me?”