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My heart stops when it comes close to 21, but it pops up. Pops high and…lands on 21!
“Holy shit, baby.” Cormac grabs me. “You just won me thirty-six thousand dollars!”
“You won?” I yelp. “Don’t I get a cut? I picked the number.”
He eyes me cautiously.
I assume he’s living off some kind of trust fund. And he’s not on the run.
“What will you give me for your share, Stasia?” His tone drags me back to that conversation with Dante Caruso.
They’re all the same, aren’t they? Mafia men.
Cormac doesn’t work for his family, but he grew up in that world. Men like him usually only want one thing from women.
“How long are you in Vegas, Cormac?” I quickly change the subject.
“I’ve been here a while. No plans to leave.” He takes a swig of his drink.
He was a known party boy back home, not the type to get married and settle down. Maybe he is running away from something.
Despite the creepy comment about what I’ll give him, I feel safe with him. Doctors save lives, not take them.
And besides, we have something in common. Cormac escaped the life I also don’t want to live.
Feeling a little better, I smile. “Let’s see if we can win more money.”
“Addicting, isn’t it?” He takes my hand. “Come on, princess.”
We just won thirty-six thousand dollars!
Maybe I can make a life here after all hanging out with a cute, harmless doctor.
What can go wrong?
CHAPTER FIVE
Ana- Present Day
“How far along are you, Ana?” the EMT asks me.
“I’d check my watch, but I’m handcuffed,” I sneer sarcastically because that’s who I am now.
A woman who sneers.
A woman who is unhappy, bitter, and hasn’t smiled in I don’t know how long.
I live with a man I hate.
He hates me, too.
After six months together, I lost all interest in Cormac. The sex continued because I had nowhere else to go. With my pregnancy came my imprisonment.
Cormac stares at me from the second ambulance parked across from mine. He’s also cuffed, his ankle messed up from rolling and totaling our car.
I stole it to escape him, even though I don’t know how to drive. I left with the clothes on my back, rushing out of the cheap motel room he’s kept me in when I had the chance.
Cormac caught up to me and jumped on the hood.
