Page 34 of What Happens In Vegas
‘Where were you last night?’ Bonni was a little surprised at Ava’s blunt question. Usually, that was Celia’s department.
‘I got in this morning, before Quinn’s tournament.’
‘And he won today.’ Bonni glanced at Quinn and smiled. She wasdoing her best to conceal her misgivings about him being a poker player.
‘Wow, I’m impressed,’ Fredi said. She turned to Landon. ‘Do you play?’
He shook his head. ‘Nope, the only gambling I do is with the stock market.’
Celiascoffed, and Landon turned to her. She’d remained rather silent through the whole exchange. ‘You must be the quiet one?’
‘Hardly.’
Landon smiled at her, and Celia lookedup at him, her long hair falling down her back. It was like something just zinged between them. Bonni watched with curiosity.
‘So nice to meet you.’ Her vulnerability from earlier now hidden away, Celia was ready to eat him up.
‘Are you having a good time?’ Landon stepped toward her and Bonni noticed that Celia seemed to lean in a little closer to Landon.Yes, this was very interesting indeed.
‘How can you not have a good time in Vegas? As long as none of us ends up in jail or married, we’re good.’
Landon laughed. ‘And I wonder how many times that’s actually happened.’
‘Probably far more than we could ever count.’
‘I’m sure there’s been a lot of quickie divorces. Maybe that’s why it’s so easy to get a divorce in Nevada. Marriage is for suckers, anyway.’
Bonni looked over at Avaand Fredi and raised her eyebrows. They both nodded and leaned into each other, whispering, before laughing.
Bonni watched them and figured they were talking about Celia. She glanced over to see that Celia and Landon were chatting away.
Quinn tipped his head down to her. ‘I wonder what that means?’
‘I don’t know. But Celia’s a handful,’ Bonni warned.
‘Landon can hold his own,’ Quinn assuredher.
‘I guess we’ll see, won’t we?’
Landon turned around. ‘I know these two have somethingup their sleeve, but what about you ladies? Any plans for the rest of the evening?’
‘Not really. Maybe play some slots, grab a couple of drinks.’ Celia answered for them and shimmied a little closer to him.
Landon looked at his watch. ‘Well, I have a little bit of time, before I have to go up for a conferencecall.’
‘At this time of night?’ Celia asked.
‘Yes, it’s not night on the other side of the world.’ He gave Celia a rather cute smirk which made her shuffle her feet a little bit.
‘Well, then,’ Ava interrupted. ‘Since you’re on borrowed time, how about we get those drinks?’
‘An excellent idea,’ Landon agreed.
‘Right, then, since you guys have yourselves all sorted, I think Bonni and I willmove on.’ Quinn took her hand.
‘Aww, you guys are so cute.’ Celia lifted her purse and opened it. ‘Do you need any more—’
‘Okay, catch you all later.’ Bonni wouldn’t put it past Celia pull out a handful of condoms in the middle of the bar.
