Gambling for Ashleigh by E. M. Hayes

Author:E. M. Hayes [Hayes, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2019-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Callum

I get out of the Jeep, and a shiver runs down my spine. It's fall outside, and while the days are still warm in central Texas, the nights can be downright freezing. Especially when you're out in a parking lot, exposed to the wind. I wanted to be closer to the front entrance of the casino, but it's apparently a much busier night than usual. When I get up to the casino, I see why.

There's some sort of big poker tournament that will be here two Saturdays from now and leading up to it is an event where someone wins a car every night. Oh, to have the money that a casino does. I'd probably be out of my troubles with that and maybe living out a happily ever after with Ashleigh.

Ashleigh. Fuck. I very nearly slept with her tonight, and I would have enjoyed it. But there's some sort of cardinal sin against sleeping with another woman in your ex-wife's family's vacation home, isn't there? I'm sure Samantha's parents would want me to be happy—and being with Ashleigh has made me very happy, despite the danger that surrounds our lives at the moment.

But perhaps having sex with Ashleigh would have been just that. Sex. Before I ever met Samantha, I was one of those cops who loved the attention that came from the uniform. I had plenty of one-night stands. But all that changed with Samantha. Since then, I've been as celibate as a priest. In fact, the first woman I've kissed since Samantha has been Ashleigh. And she was the one who initiated the kiss both times, although I would have started them if she hadn't.

I think we're on some sort of carousel going round and round each other. And I don't know if we'll ever meet in the middle.

I have to play it cool. Pretend like nothing happened. Or rather, pretend like I have no idea who Ashleigh is. And that I don't have feelings for her.

I push through the front doors and nod to my left to acknowledge Jenn, the clerk working the Guest Relations desk. It's what I would typically do. She gives me a little wave, and I see her reach underneath the desk. I've always thought of it as her counting the visitors, but suspicion has me on edge, and I wonder if she's alerting Gary to the fact that I've arrived.

How many people here are in Gary's pocket.

I swallow and shrug into my jacket even more.

Play it cool, Callum. You have nothing to hide.

Except for a beautiful woman that I've started to care too much for. A woman who saw something she shouldn't have.

I know that Gary is at the bar where we met last time, waiting for me with a smug smile on his face

He's such a prick.

I spot him at the bar, in the exact same spot as when he spoke with me last Saturday night. I hide the curl of my lips as I make my way up to him and sit down.

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