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After a long pause, her father finally replied, “WHAT??? Jessica, have you lost your mind? Why would you bet that much money?”
“I’m sorry, Dad. I was drunk.”
Jessica’s dad replies, “Oh, hell no. Don’t you give me that drunken nonsense now! How did this happen? Jessica, seriously? How are you going to get out of this mess?”
“I honestly don’t know yet. I don’t have that much money on me right now. I might have to take out a loan from the bank. The hotel also assigned a financial advisor to me. I might end up needing your help with this. I swear I’ll pay it back at some point. Maybe I can call Spencer for the money.”
Jessica’s dad was silent for a moment. She could sense that he was mad at her. She would be too. “I don’t have that kind of money lying around, Jessica. We spent a lot on the wedding arrangements with Spencer. I know what he did to you isn’t fair, but Jess, you can’t just go ahead and be so irresponsible. We are normal people with normal funds, not billionaires to be able to gamble away $50,000, and no, don’t call Spencer, no matter what the situation is. He is the one that put you in this position. You can figure it out on your own.”
“Okay, Dad. I’ll see what I can do.”
Suddenly, she heard a knock on the door. “Hey, Dad, I’ll uh... Talk to you later. There’s someone at the door.”
“Okay, honey. Please keep in touch and keep me updated. I’ll give your mom the rundown of recent events once she wakes up.” After having said that, her dad ended the call.
She put the phone inside her bag and went to the door. When she opened it, Matthew Millers was standing on the other side.
12
Matt felt like he’d never had this much fun in—well—forever, ever since he laid eyes on the alcohol-sodden, beautiful woman gambling away at the casino the other night. He had been watching over the casino tables from an upstairs balcony that overlooked the whole room. When Jessica won a few hands from what looked to be an amateur newbie at the casino, he had decided to step in to amp up the entertainment, and it seemed as though that was the perfect decision because Jessica turned out to be as entertaining as he had guessed. She was not good at gambling at all. He was amused at how clueless she was in the game but still showed such confidence and cheerful enthusiasm. Whatever reason had gotten her drunk like a sailor during a celebration, he didn’t know, but he wanted to play with her. At first, he let her win a few rounds on him, then he started going hard on her, made her lose small amounts, and made her believe she could make it up with a few more rounds. Soon, the numbers kept getting bigger, and Matt relished in watching her slowly start to squirm. This went on until she had lost $50,000. She still might have kept going had he not reminded her of the amount she had already stacked up.
When she had come to her senses, Jessica had looked as if she would throw up her vodka. That had made Matt a little concerned, and he had suggested that she turn in for the night. He had been the one to assist her back to her room. Pretty good room, from the looks of it, and a couple’s suite too.
What an interesting creature.
He had helped Jessica into her bed and let her sleep the night off. He had even placed a glass of water and some aspirin on the bedside table, and then the next morning, he called her room and made the marriage proposal to her, to which she had completely lost it over him. Understandable, Matt thought, but what he didn’t understand was why he felt the sudden urge to marry her. There was something about her that drew him towards her like a magnet. It was amusing to him to see her get all flustered, and by the look on her face when he had told her the amount of her debt, he deduced that she was probably in huge trouble and had no way to procure that huge sum of money. That was when this crazy thought had occurred to him, to give her the offer of marrying him. It gave him some carnal kind of pleasure knowing that she was somewhat dependent on his help for clearing her debt, and he intended to try his best to make sure she accepted.
Right now, Matt was standing by the door to her room. He could hear her talk over the phone inside but couldn’t make out what she was saying. A few seconds later, the door opened, and there she was standing on the other side, with her hair still a mess and mascara smudges under her eyes. This lady could use a good night’s sleep, he thought, and yet, she looked striking to him. Like some lush and mysterious beauty with secrets in her eyes. Her confused face changed into a scowl as she recognized him and was about to close the door when he put his foot inside and prevented it.
“Good morning, sunshine,” he said in a loud cheerful voice, to which she flinched. “Rough hangover?”
“Get out,” she said, turning away. Matt followed her inside and closed the door behind him.
“I’m only here to help. Your knight in shining armor.”
“Look, Mister, I don’t know what your deal is, but people don’t just go around offering marriage proposals to damsels in distress,” she said, annoyed.
“So you admit you are my damsel in distress?” he cocked an eyebrow.
“But why? Why would you possibly want to me marry me? I’m nothing but a stranger and an unreliable one at that, who gets drunk and loses all her money at casinos.”
“Maybe I just really wanted to help such an unreliable person with my generosity.”
“Are you so generous that you throw proposals to everyone who lost money here? That would be a lot of wives for you.” She said.
“No, you’re the first. Maybe you just struck my generous side into being activated,” he said with a wink.
Jessica rolled her eyes and sat on the corner of her bed. She crossed her hands on her chest and asked, “Where are you getting the money may I ask? Are you that rich?”
“Maybe I am.”
“Oh, please, drop the cockiness,” she snapped.
“Okay, okay, I’ll tell you the truth. My family owns this hotel. I’m the heir, and most of the shares here are mine, so you could say that I own this place, even though it technically belongs to my family.”
The look on Jessica’s face was another one that amused him immensely. He couldn’t help but twitch his lips in amusement at her expression. Her jaw dropped, and she stared at him like he had somehow transformed into someone else entirely.
“But you- but then why didn’t you tell me that sooner? We played poker all night, and you never once mentioned this while you stole all my money!” she cried in disbelief.
