Novel What Happens In Vegas Novels & Stories

One Year Later The light from the sign towering a few feet above us highlights our location on the Vegas strip. It isn't the town that brought us together, but it's close enough. Vegas is where I was headed when my car got stranded on the road one year ago and I met Lukis, the man who changed my life. It's also the first place we stopped once we hightailed it away from the Last Chance Motel. I figured he'd drop me off once we hit civilization and tell me good luck, but here we are, still together.

"What about Vegas? Did you get to see the sights? Meet any interesting people?" I fiddled with the edge of her blanket. "Not really. Mostly stuck in meetings about the new development project. Spreadsheets and blueprints don't leave much time for fun." "Oh, come on," Hazel groaned. "You were in Sin City, and all you did was work?" I smiled, remembering the casino floor. "I did try my hand at blackjack. Actually, won a decent amount." I twisted a strand of hair around my finger, hoping they wouldn't press for details about exactly how much - or who taught me.

I stare at my computer monitor while my thumb slowly rubs the underside of the golden band on my finger. A small smile slowly creeps out as I remember a particular 24 hours a few years back. For someone who is normally very serious and always thinking about how to push our company ahead or how I can get one step in front of my brother, the super son, I still can’t believe that I let Ryan actually talk me into going to Vegas for a night. I never in a million years would have dreamed that I would meet her there and got married. Granted, I was drunk, but I wasn’t that drunk. I should have been the sensible one, but for once in my life, I wanted to walk on the wild side.

Emily “Come on guys. Live a little!” Jesse shouts excitedly as we make our way to the casino. “So, this is the famous Las Vegas?” I ask, somehow not as excited as I thought I would be. Maybe spending all my savings for this trip was part of it. “Are you kidding me?” Stela questions in disbelief. “This is life, Babe. Look at that, its Mark from the Beast!” I let out a sigh and try to loosen up. I might as well enjoy this adventure, I paid for it after all.

Just let me go home. “We'll deal with this in the car. Move it, Missy.” He strides ahead and I scurry after him, brain all mushy. Everything is happening so fast. “Where are we going?” He holds the door for me, eyes glinting. “Vegas.” Sin city. Where angels go to rot. Where I will make the worst decision of my life and not think twice about it. Fuck, this shit just got real.

My dick rose to half-fucking mast. I swallowed hard and then began scrubbing my skin until it was raw. Perhaps, I stayed under the water too long, long enough for my fingers to become pruned and my skin burned, but at least, I felt clean and my thoughts had settled into something I could manage. It was fine. Last night was…nothing. Just a mistake. A lapse in judgment and a ‘we don’t talk about Bruno’ situation. It would never leave the four walls of this hotel. What’s that saying? Whatever happens in Vegas…dies in Vegas.

The mile-long buildings, the busy Strip, the luxurious cars and the imposing casinos made up the city of sin as it was; pure pleasure and fun. This was the city of drunken marriages, frequent divorces, unlimited debauchery and the flow of money. Whether as an ordinary citizen or as a millionaire betting his chips at a gaming table, everyone knew what to expect in Vegas. And in the middle of the hurricane that the street was, all lit up with vivid colors by the richness of the buildings, was Blair Collins. She got out of the limousine lightly, but what she got was a flood of looks in her direction. Some turned their heads as they walked, just to look at him for a second longer. Three women de

I whispered back. "Mrs. Stranger." "Mr. Stranger." He laughed — soft, real, undone — and his hand tightened at my waist. "Come on," he said. "Let's go home." I did not ask whose home. I did not ask anything at all. I let my husband of approximately forty-five seconds take my hand and lead me out of the chapel, into the warm Vegas night, toward a penthouse I had not booked, in a city I had never been to, on the happiest, drunkest, most catastrophically reckless night of my entire life.

I say going to grab me a glass of wine out the fridge. Thank you Heather. For the first time in my life I understand why people drink after a stressful day. “Fine, but if this happens again” he starts. I hold my hand up. “If it happens again nothing because they are my mates and this is my problem, just go okay. I need to prepare myself to deal with Vegas” I say. And somehow dealing with the brute sounds harder than dealing with the actual incident. “Fine” he says storming out. “I will see you two tomorrow” I say to Tati and Treasure.

“Don’t you feel that there are too many things that have happened these few days, ever since I arrived in Las Vegas from Mordu?” “My mother-in-law was kidnapped. I’ve been attacked several times. On top of that, some people have been eyeing my wife’s shares of Sky Casino Palace…” “Everything is far too coincidental.” “And with the way these coincidences come together, I’ve begun to believe that there is no such coincidence in this world.” “Some are carefully planned.” As Harvey ate, he advised Edwin, “Edwin, you’re also from the Sword Camp. Sometimes, you should think more deeply when you run into problems.”