Bright and Shiny 2

Chapter 221

"I heard you have come into some money." Meredith said to Mark sternly as she came upon him in the vending machine area of the ground floor. Meredith had started getting hungry since her husband stole her lunch, so she decided while she had a few minutes to run to the vending machines and stock up on some junk food and shove them in her pockets.

When she got closer to the area of the halls that had the good chips and chocolates she liked, she noticed Mark having the same idea. He was grabbing a bag of chips and a bar from the machine.

"Mere! So she told you." Mark gloated proudly as a he stuck another bill in the machine and punched in the code for her favorite chips.

"Yes, betting on my baby. Your nephew!" She scolded while rolling her eyes, Mark knowing she was teasing. Mark knew that Meredith knew that he bet on everything. When it was Mark's turn to pick places for the four of them to do on a double date, more often than not it always resulted in a casino or gambling in some way. A weekend to Atlantic City, that he said was so she and Addi could use the spa at the Trump hotel. Which was really a weekend for him and Derek to gamble while Addi and Meredith were using the spa. A weekend at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut for the same reasons, also because he said New England was beautiful in the fall. Yet none of them think he left the hotel to go outside. Once there was a charity dinner cruise around the Hudson River, that just so happened to be a floating casino charity dinner cruise.

"Hey, you know me and money is money. Plus she actually thought Derek would last. I love the guy, but come on we all know you were going to outlast him. He becomes mushy faster and you're the spawn of Ellis Grey." Mark said complimentary. "He told me about her visit, you tried to warn him, he wanted to be tough and your mom owned him."

"True." Meredith laughed and nodded as Mark handed her the chips he bought for her as he moved to stick another bill in the chocolate machine to grab her, her favorite bar.

"It was an easy win, I couldn't pass it up." He gloated as Meredith just shook her head. "Well you buying me chips and candy, make up for you betting on my child." Meredith winked as she opened the bag and started eating the chips just as her beeper started going off paging her back to the pit.

"Gotta go, thanks for lunch." Meredith yelled back as she took off running.

"Least I could do its money I won off your kid." Mark laughed back watching her run and tries to eat the chips at the same time.