“Pick.”
Cristo. “Fine, I’ll take the blonde.” I preferred brunettes, so I took the one who was the least attractive, not that it would matter anyway.
“Nice choice,” Leo said. “I want that one…with the cat eyes.” He kinda pointed but almost stumbled over.
He was gonna collapse on the bed, and she was going to rob him blind.
I headed to the back with the blond girl, and we went into a private room. It had a king-size bed, lamps on the nightstands, and a couple couches on a rug. It was a room without windows that reeked of sex.
I had my regulars come to my place.
“I’m Cynthia.” She untied the sash around her robe and started to take it off. “What are you into?—”
“Put that back on.”
She stilled, the robe hanging in the crooks of her elbows, her tits out, and all she wore was a little thong.
I only looked at her eyes.
“I said, put that back on.Now.”
She put the robe back on and covered herself.
I set my phone on a table across the room and started to record before I moved to the couch. “You play cards?”
“Excuse me?”
I pulled out a deck of cards that I kept on me sometimes, what I played with the guys while we waited for a deal to finish. Sometimes it could be hours. “Poker? Blackjack? If you don’t know how to play, I can teach you.”
She looked at me like I was crazy. “You’re going to pay me to teach me cards?”
“Yep.Sit.” There was a little cushioned purple stool for her.
She took a seat across the table and crossed her legs.
“Long story short, the guys forced me here, and I’ve got a girl at home that I can’t tell them about. So, we’re goingto play cards. Easiest money you’ll ever make.” I nodded to the camera. “Just some proof in case I ever need it.”
“Why don’t you just leave?”
“Because he drove,” I said with a sigh. “I’ve gotta roll with it.”
“Why don’t you just tell them you’re seeing someone?”
I shuffled the deck then started to deal the cards. “Because one of the guys I’m with…it’s his sister. Kinda under wraps right now.”
“And when he realizes you’ve been seeing her, don’t you think he’ll be pissed off, knowing you came here?” She grabbed the five cards I’d put in front of her.
I nodded to the camera. “Hence, the camera. So how about poker?”
She looked at the cards in her hand before she looked at me. “How about Go Fish?”
I smirked. “Not my style, but hey, whatever you want.”
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WOLFE
Leo was too fucked up to leave after the fun, so we crashed at a hotel and left in the morning. He drank a full glass of water and popped a couple of pills then leaned against the window with heavily lidded eyes. His phone vibrated in his pocket a couple of times, but he ignored it.
