Roommates... with my Ex Boyfriend (Roommates Series: Book #1)

Chapter 24

The casino is filled with drunks, people trying to get laid, people trying to make money, or a combination of them all. Jace told us that we were here to make a bit of cash. He hands us each a thousand dollars to bet on at different games we could do. He tells us that he wants his money back by tomorrow night. If we didn't make any money, we still owe him the one thousand. If we lost money, we still owed him. If we made money, we still owed him, but got to keep the profit.

Fortunately, there's a pool table. That's pretty much the only thing that I'm good at in bars, and casinos --- including holding my alcohol.

Since he was sixteen until he was old enough, eighteen, Jace had a fake ID. Jess had one too. They only managed to convince me to get one when I was seventeen, even then, I rarely used it. When I did though, they would take me to the best places, well, as best as they could get. Whenever Jace took me, and no one else joined us, he would teach me how to play pool. Jess later taught me how to bluff.

We decide to split up once we've entered. I go on my own, to the pool table, and I'm slightly shocked to see that Jace, or Jess haven't joined me. They're the best at it; a few bluffs, and good moves, they could get themselves quite a bit of money.

In the corner of my eye, I see two men eyeing myself, and the table in front of me. I smirk to myself a little. I begin to play terribly, acting as if I haven't noticed the men, and a few minutes later, I hear, "Is this your first time playing pool?"

I look up, and see the two men have approached me. So far, my plan is working. I stand straight, tuck a strand behind my ear, and smile shyly at them. "Yes, would one of you like to play with me?"

The man on the right nods. "I will, but I'm not doing it for free. How much do you have with you?"

I pull out the ten one hundred dollar bills. "Is this enough?"

The two men smirk. "Yeah, it's enough."

I had never bluffed while playing a stranger before, I had only practiced with Jess a few years ago because I felt bad about it. I was stealing money from the fair playing people. I was planning on sticking with Jess, or Jace the entire time, but then I saw the two men making disgusting comments about the women that passed them. Even though I didn't know any of the girls, I decided to avenge them. Let's just hope that I do that.

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By the end of the night, excluding the money that Jace gave us all, I have four thousand two hundred, and fifty dollars in my pocket. I begin to wonder what I'm going to use all of this money for as the women hands me a twenty. Clothes? Food? Bills? Probably bills, I need to start paying for my own things. The four thousand will hopefully last until I get a job.

The woman walks away without saying another word to me, passing Jace who's leaning against the wall not too far away from me. He walks up to the table, and grabs a cue stick. "If I win, you have to do whatever I want for twenty four hours. If you win, I'll buy you dinner from the restaurant of your choice."

I narrow my eyes at him. "Will you force me to do anything sęxual with you?"

"Maybe a few kisses here, and there, but besides that, no."

We go back, and forth; both of us trying to beat the other. We try to distract the other when they're making a shot, but Jace is more comfortable with doing things, so his techniques are more successful than mine. I wish that I could say that's how he won, but we both know he won because he's by far better than I am. I shouldn't have agreed to his deal, I should have remembered how good he was, and is at this. Now, I can only hope that his commands for the next twenty four hours won't be too cruel.