My name is, well call me Juan Hernandez. The Hernandez family adopted me after my parents died. The Hernandez family didn't have much money, but they were hard workers and perhaps they showed me the way to make something of myself. The Hernandez family took me in and saved my life. However, I had to work and work hard. I was a big kid, but no sports for Jua...
The ten years between the ages of 15 and 25 are difficult for any girl becoming a young woman. Those years were especially difficult for me for several reasons. I am the product of a ‘mixed marriage’. My father is Japanese and my mother Swedish. They met when my mother was a dancer in the Ginza section of Tokyo. My father was, at that time, an up and coming...
1. The Bait. The casino was busy tonight, but then it always was during the season. And the season in the Bahamas lasted pretty well all year. Anna Volkova had taken it on in part-payment of a business debt and ran it as a side-line. But like all of her enterprises, side-lines or not, it made a lot of money. The staff knew little about Anna, or Madam Volko...
BORING! That's how most people who know us would describe us. My wife and I are pretty straight laced individuals. At least that's what people think. And that's what we want them to think. And it really is true, most of the time. Meredith is a teacher and I'm an administrator for a government agency. We live a peaceful life in a quiet suburb outside of Atlan...
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Joe was feeling lucky. He had $400 to drop at any casino table of his choice. The colorful lights inside the casino blinked and spun and lit up the entire floor. The bells of the video poker machines chimed. He stopped at a poker machine, and on the first try he won $5. On the second, $10. A beautiful blonde holding a serving tray approached him. "Good eve...
Background This preferably should be read in conjunction with a knowledge of the seven previous parts that provide a cumulative of the story so far and the imbroglio that was progressively enmeshing and about to smash some of the participants. However this Part rests on its own facts and can be read as a stand-alone story and still be interesting and intri...
The scene was hotting up and the stakes were getting even higher for the players. Sue had swapped identities with her sister Pam. Sue was on a path to somewhere unknown, but risky, maybe exciting and undoubtedly dangerous. Pam wanted Charles and it would be interesting to what lengths she would go to keep him. Carlo's team was but one of three known su...
I was never one to go ga-ga over a man in uniform until I met James. Last summer, my husband took me to a posh resort casino down south. The facility was beautiful- a spa, large casino floor, upscale shops and restaurants and a lobby with comfortable chairs and a cozy fireplace. Even with the dazzling structural spectacle though, nothing compared to the vis...
Nick scanned across the lobby, sizing up the guests as they came and went from the elevators to the casino floor. The unctuous smile, ever present, concealed the contempt he held for the suckers that filled the casino in hopes of a quick buck. It was simple, the odds favored the house, not greatly, just slightly, just enough that if you played long enough, t...