The Bet That Ruined Us Novels & Stories

My hands trembled. “That bastard!” Vanessa leaned into the microphone. “My sister has always struggled with loyalty.” My chest tightened painfully. The betrayal was brutal. “They’re destroying me,” I whispered. Alexander’s voice remained calm. “No.” He picked up his phone. “They’re digging their own graves.” I turned toward him. “What are you doing?” Alexander smiled slightly. “Winning.” He dialed a number. “Marcus.” His voice turned cold. “Release the footage.” My heart skipped. “What footage?” I asked.

To expand my family's arms empire, I personally blew our old base sky-high. As I surveyed the charred ruins, I filmed a video and posted it on social media. I joked that my family had suffered a crushing defeat in a turf war and that I would have to wait tables to survive. My fiancé Antonio, who had always doted on me, called immediately. Feeling mischievous, I pretended to be afraid and tested him. "Anton, my home has been leveled, and our enemies are hunting me down everywhere… I’m terrified. Will you run away with me?" To my surprise, Antonio gave a cold laugh on the other end of the line and snapped at me. "Know your place, Ophelia. Without your status as the Don’s daughter, you should t

"And I remember Monica too. There's no way I'm wrong. He's the one who put her in my car that day. They left together, but he came back alone. That was the most money I ever made from a single ride. "I could never forget it." It had taken me a long time to track down that driver. I finally found him in a casino. That was when I learned that after Colton paid him, he'd started gambling and gotten hooked. He ended up deep in debt and had been on the run ever since. Finding him had taken a lot of work. With the whole truth laid out before him, Lorenzo looked furious. I gave Colton a small smile. "You sold me and used the money to buy Beth a gown. You chose Southeast Asia because you thought I'd

“Talk to me. I’m the one who just got fucked on camera while paying a rigged bet.” Maddox crouched in front of me, hands on my knees. His thumbs stroked slow circles, gentle after everything. “We’ll handle it. You don’t need to worry about that part.” “Bullshit.” I shoved his hands off even though part of me wanted to lean into them. “This stopped being just about the bet the second Festus admitted he rigged it. And now someone else knows? What if it gets out? What if my friends see? Or worse, our parents?”

At our joint engagement party, my best friend and I both left with rings on our fingers. Sabrina Vale was marrying Luca Marino, the boy I’d loved for ten years. I was marrying Adrian Calloway, the man every society columnist in New York swore was obsessed with me. When it was my turn to make a toast, Sabrina brought up an old bet and grinned at the crowd. “Let’s see whether our princess already has her fiancé on a leash.” The guests started chanting for Adrian to smear engagement cake across my face. His hand stalled. For one stupid second, I thought he’d put the plate down and stand beside me like he always promised he would. Then Luca asked if Adrian was whipped before the wedding had even

"Nope" "So you cheated." "I later found out I didn't even have to do that, she actually preferred me to him" "You are so humble Jayden, Self praise much?" Jayden couldn't stop laughing "Nah, I am serious, she told Bode our other friend that ended up with her" Janet shocked "So you didn't win?" "Not really, when we noticed Bode was really into her, and not for the bet, we decided to withdraw" "How noble of you. So you lost 50k?"

"I don't know… I have a problem, alright? What's done is done…i can't undo it… " "Well, you probably get ready with some good-ass apology because if you don't, the leader is definitely gonna undo you from the clan today!" "Fuck! Fuck…" "Wu stop freaking him out… " Su shunned Wu giggly taunts, "this isn't about the bets, Liam… this is prolly something else! But Wu is right, you really need to get rid of that nasty betting addiction…" "I will! Definitely… from today onwards I won't make bets—" ~bleep

“I'm so sorry, Charlotte.” Ten thousand dollars. Now, that was hardly any money to us, but back then, it was every dime Bastian, Leo, and Gabe had. They had saved for months working odd jobs and eating nothing but ramen. It had been everything back then. And Leo had bet it all. “You never said anything...” I was still processing the implications. Leo had bet all of the money without asking anyone. If the kicker had missed... Our business never would have existed. “How could I?” Leo's voice cracked. “You looked at me like I was hero when I said we had forty-grand. I didn't want you to look at me like a gambler. I didn't want you to see the real me.”

she mumbled, obviously surprised by my sudden appearance. Tears quickly rolled down my eyes upon seeing her. I weakly leaned my body against her, asking for her support. “He didn’t trust me, enough. I love him yet he ruined our marriage,” I whispered against my sobs and let myself broke down in pain. Yes, he's the one who ruined it. He might have seen me naked with another guy but I know nothing happened. If anything did… he would have known I didn’t want it to happen at all. He really did it intentionally.

She places a bet on something I usually do well and after some time of doing it, I lose drastically to her and end up doing her bidding because unfortunately, I'm a man of words. "Then what's the fun in beating your ass in everything? I can't scream in your face everytime you lose, I will definitely get tired at some point," She looked at me with that ridiculous expression she always had on when she tries to show that she's right and yes, she's right. Betting is a very important factor that kept us close as friends, we had a better on literally almost everything Betting on whose partner was going to cheat first, betting on who was going to get their order first in a restaurant, betting on ot