Deadly Gamble (DI Sutherland Scottish Crime Thriller Book 4) by Oliver Davies

Author:Oliver Davies [Davies, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

DOMINIC

“Your turn, Donny.”

Tim Lake peered above his cards, as much in his element in the back rooms of his casino as he had been in the strip club, with Lacey working her witchy magic on the knots beneath his shoulders. Wearing taller platforms each time we met. I scoured through my own set consisting of fours of hearts and seven of diamonds. Smoke wafted out the end of my cigarette and hazed the air in thick realms of smog.

Thus far, poker had taken priority over most of the other agendas sure to be at play within the back rooms of the casino, talks were done over scotch or brandy and if there wasn’t any available, the talks didn’t happen. Poker hadn’t been my strong suit during the first week or so of being granted access to Tim Lake’s back rooms, though I had soon caught onto the aims of the game. Two of them were simple enough to remember. Make enough money by the end of the round to brag about and try to figure out the methods of your opponent in order to win the next. Whether they rigged the game, cheated often, bluffed too many times to keep count of, or never won at all. It was the key to winning the game and the respect of the inner circle too.

Once upon a time I would have believed DCI Aikman a better match for these kinds of soirees. A better candidate for infiltrating a gambling institution, to butter the inner circle up with his natural flair for all the above. In terms of natural skill, that was. If DCI Aikman could see my surroundings for himself and dabble in a game or ten, rather than hear about the ins and outs of them through the numerous crosswords I’d filled out for the CID team, he’d probably call it the return of the good old days. That was the thing about Tim Lake’s casino. It was a different world to the one we had come from, and it wasn’t necessarily the most terrible feat. Perhaps Lacey had been half right and half right only. I was good at acting like I was turning into the others. Wasn’t I?

I picked out a card from my selection. Then decided against it.

The cigarettes we smoked were always passed around without question by David Lee, the full name of CID’s ghost I’d been able to uncover after prodding and poking. David Lee dragged on his own cigarette directly opposite me, sideburns meticulously groomed into a U. Wide lips wetting the rolling paper of his own smoke every time he shifted through the hand he’d been dished out by Lacey. I could feel his glare lingering on me at the same time. Wondered if he was actually paying attention to the game unfolding in front of us at all.

I scanned the motley crew. Mark Keels sat a foot to the right of him, balling a playing card in his already balled fist whenever anybody

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