Page 5 of Game of Love
“What the hell?” I scuffed. There was no way I’d ever expected the bastard to be late to meet me.
That idea to keep the chip was starting to look better and better. Two million was definitely better than five hundred grand.
A shuffle made me turn, but a blow to the back of my head sent me down to my knees.
Stars speckled my vision as I coiled from the blinding pain.
And, fuck, another blow in my face that felt like being hit by a truck knocked me right out.
Darkness surrounded me, blocking everything out.
Chapter 2
Jia
“So is that a no?As in,nope, not at all?” Mr. Green Eyes asked me.
“It’s a no,” I replied.
“Aww honey, you’re breaking my heart here.” He grabbed his chest and made a show of looking disappointed. “How many more times are you going to turn me down? I swear to God I’ve never heard ‘no’ that many times in my life let alone a week.”
That was the tenth time this week I’d turned him down.
“As many times as it takes.” I chuckled and rocked back on my heels. The movement made his eyes drop to my breasts and linger there for far too long.
Yup… that would be the reason for my many attempts to turn this man away.
He was gorgeous and definitely my type. Definitely the kind of guy I would go for hands down. But he was totally the type that I was trying to avoid in my pursuit to fold over a new leaf.
No more assholes.
Armand Ricci, my ex, had been the biggest asshole ever. Asshole enough to rule them all.
He’d loved my breasts too and the entire look of me. Blond hair, blue eyes and big breasts seemed to definitely get a lot of attention. Like most guys he’d never looked past my appearance and valued what was underneath. As such it turned out he loved the look of a lot of women at the casino as well and made plenty of room in his bed to accommodate.
I’d found him cheating on me with not just one woman but two. Wonderful… and double the shock.
The idiot didn’t even care who I was when he started cheating on me. It was what happened when you got privileges from the king.
I wanted more than that.
More than a man who was just looking at me for my beauty and body, like this guy in front of me now, and I wasn’t going to find anybody like that in Sin City. Las Vegas attracted all manner of people. That was the first lesson I’d learned from living here all my life.
All manner of people and no one was who they said they were. What you saw was what you got and you had to make your own inferences from that.
I cleared my throat in an exaggerated manner and Mr. Green Eyes looked up at me with a sly smile on his face that brought out the dimples. Gorgeous dimples.
“Come on sweetheart, why no again?” he challenged.
I smiled and released a sigh. “Do you really want to know?”
“Oh yes… I would love to know why the woman of my dreams keeps turning me down.” He moved away from the bar, reached out and took a lock of my platinum hair, allowing the ends to curl around his finger then loosen.
We both looked at my hair in his hands. I also took the chance to scan the distinct impression left on his ring finger from a wedding band. A wedding band indent that looked like it was very recently worn.
Out of the corner of my eye I glanced my father coming down the stairs. I mentally groaned when I spotted Armand next to him. He looked over to me and frowned when he saw I wasn’t alone. I guessed I was going to have him to deal with tonight too. Unfortunately, despite my daily attempts to remind him of all the reasons why I would never go back to him he still kept trying and wouldn’t take no for an answer.
It was fine, I didn’t mind reminding him that I had no intention of getting back together and if he had a problem with it he could take it up with my father.
