Bad Girl Reputation: an addictive second chance romance from the TikTok sensation by Elle Kennedy

Author:Elle Kennedy [Kennedy, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2022-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

EVAN

Wyatt taps two fingers on the kitchen table. Cooper also checks after the turn. I’m sitting on a possible jack-high straight, but I’ve got a fairly good idea that Tate’s got the king, and I’m not about to blow my stack to see the river. I check.

“Tate, it’s your call, hurry up,” Wyatt shouts.

“He checks,” Coop says, huffing as he peeks at his cards again, like they’ve changed since he looked at them twenty seconds ago.

“Yeah, I bet your pair of threes says he checks.”

“Then you should have raised,” Coop tells Wyatt, getting irritated. “Let’s see that king already.” At that, Wyatt shakes his head with a knowing smile. Because Coop is a poor sport and it’s sort of a running gag at this point.

When we were kids, he’d steal from the bank in Monopoly and throw a fit when he was losing. After numerous tantrums, we started egging him on for fun just to see the fireworks. Really, it’s one of the few things that keeps poker interesting when I’m playing my brother. Play with anyone long enough and there ceases to be any mystery left. With twins, it’s worse. I might as well be staring at his cards. We can’t bluff each other.

“Tate, what the hell?” Wyatt yells. “I’m about to divvy up your chips.”

“Coming,” he calls from the garage, where we keep the drink coolers.

“I check,” Chase says, skipping Tate.

“And dealer checks.” Our old high school buddy Luke burns one card off the top of the deck and turns the next faceup on the table. “Queen of clubs. Possible straight, possible royal flush on the board.”

“Oh, come on. That’s not cool.” Tate comes in with his arms full and sets several beers on the kitchen counter. “I was going to raise.”

Coop and I smirk at each other across the table. He definitely has the king. We both fold out of turn.

“Yeah, screw you both,” Tate says, watching his best hand of the night go belly up.

“Where’d you go? Milwaukee?” Wyatt reaches out an impatient hand for his beer. “Or did you have to brew them yourself?”

“Next time you can get your own damn drink.”

It’s boys’ night at our house, a usual poker game we host every month or so. Enough time for the guys to replenish their wallets after the cash Coop and I took off them the game before. You’d think they’d catch on that the odds are stacked against them. Yet every month, here they are, swimming upstream and right into the bear’s mouth.

The rest of the hand quickly plays out, with Tate taking a small pot as everyone either folds or calls. Hardly worth the excellent hand. I almost feel bad for the guy. Almost.

“You gonna have the boat ready for tomorrow?” Danny glances at Luke for an answer, while Tate deals the next hand. Danny’s another friend from high school, a tall ginger who works with Tate at the yacht club as a sailing instructor.

“We put it on the water this morning.” Luke sighs.

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