I thought of trying to escape, but where would I go and what would I do? I wasn’t complaining, but this was not part of my plan. XXX Her face– no her entire body– was red with embarrassment. “Might as well do it right,” I said loudly enough for everyone to hear as I sat back down and opened the package and dumped the sealed decks onto edge of the table. Nobody pays any attention to a price sticker, but the numbers above the price on the sticker told me exactly which deck was which. “One year as my slave, plus your signature on the divorce papers as MY lawyer draws them up.”
Charlie made a big show of checking her hole cards. Charlie and Barbara immediately folded, but Lari pushed a stack of chips into the center and said, “Double it.”
I looked at the stack of chips in front of each of the girls.
