Brooke is level with me on chips. I glance around and see everyone is now watching the table. Two hands maximum and it will all be over.
Brent deals. The Russian makes a huge blind bet. Brooke stops. Shit, this has thrown her.
I see she doesn’t know what to do. This could be game over. I have to do something. I start to open my mouth, and I hear Brent call over the table.
“Miss, can you match the bet or raise the blind,” he says.
God bless you, Brent.
“Sorry,” Brooke says.
She doubles the blind. I make my bet, and it is back to the Russian. Brent deals the three cards. The Russian looks on calmly. He checks his stack. He goes all in.
Fuck, this is not the last hand.
Brooke does all she can and matches the Russian’s bet. I am stuck. I have a chance of losing now. That is not the plan. I have a good hand, but what has the Russian got?
I need a sign. I glance to Brent, no signal from him. What do I do?
I see from the corner of my eye. Brooke rubs her cross.
I hope to god you mean to have faith.
I call Mikey over. “I need that tray,” I whisper. Mikey comes out with his send tray of chips. He puts it on the table.
I push everything into the middle of the table. “I call.”
Mikey punches me in the back. “What the fuck are you doing?” he snaps quietly.
“Shush.”
Brent deals the last card. The Russian flips his cards. Brooke follows. I turn mine slowly.
I shake my head as Mikey rubs me wildly on my shoulders. “You fucking did it, the Russian is finished,” he murmurs.
The last hand was fixed so it was pretty easy. Brooke was going to win so, again all the chips ended up in the pot. I was sure Mikey was going to crap his pants with the move I had just pulled. It was to be one of those hands that would be remembered forever.
A royal flush for me up to the Jack, I already knew that was to be my hand. And, as a little “Fuck you Mikey,” Brooke was to have a royal flush up to the queen.
I go all in. Brooke just pushes her hands forward and her chips scatter over the table.
“All in,” she cries.
My hand is set, all it needs is the Queen to be turned. Brent begins to turn the card. I can see it is black. Brent makes a quick flick with his finger as he turns the Queen of Diamonds.
I turn my cards. “Royal flush,” I say. Mikey rubs my shoulders.
“I have a royal flush to the Queen,” Brooke says.
“Oh God! Lady, it looks like you have won,” I say.
I hear Mikey spitting and swearing in my ear. “You're fucking dead meat now Alex, you have fucked me good and proper.” He holds his head in his hands.
Brent starts stacking all the chips for Brooke. “You say you have lost everything?” I ask Mikey.
“You fucking know I have,” he says.
“I will make you a deal,” I say.
“You have nothing to make a fucking deal with,” Mikey snarls.
“Do you want to bet on that?” I reply. “I think you better pay the lady.”
Mikey storms off to his office with Brooke. She comes out with a wheeled suitcase full of money.
I start walking toward the door of the warehouse. “You can’t go yet, you still owe me,” Mikey says.
“Your right.” I walk to Brooke and open the case. I pull out three hundred thousand. I throw it onto the table.
“Debt settled,” I say.
“What? Fuck, how? Where the fuck are you going?” Mikey shouts.
I take hold of the case, and Brooke links her arm firmly through mine. She kisses me on the cheek and smiles at me.
Bell, Shona and Brent make their way out one by one, separately, but holding hands when they get through the door. We all laugh together and feel relieved and happy about our little Vegas adventure. It could have been so much worse.
It dawns on me for a moment that Brooke was a virgin before we made love the first time. I was sure she loved everything about it, and now we were going to live together in our own perfect paradise. We could even buy a place with the money, after I paid back Shona and Beau.
Mikey runs after us outside. He calls out to me, “I really liked you, you know. I’ll give you a call, sometime.”
I yell out, “Sure. I really like you, too. Lose the hammer thing, it’s not much fun having to dodge that, alright?” I smile. “We are going back to paradise. Tell Ronny he’s a cunt. You can come and see me, without that motherfucker.”
“Alright, bye!!”
We all laugh and feel relief.
“Paradise is just around the corner, but getting there can be hell.”
Afterword
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