Authors: Michelle Escamilla
I could feel one of his hands reach up behind me and begin to pull my hair back. It dawned on me, Liam
hadn’t seen how much I had cut off and was probably wondering where it was at that moment. I smiled
and then quickly bit my lip.
I quickly played with my spot that sends me off the edge and arched my back into him and screamed out
with him. He kept his fingers inside me for another moment, kissing all over my face and down my neck.
He then rolled away flipping on the lamp.
“Actually, I chopped a few inches off! It was a spur of the moment decision this afternoon, but I totally
love it. What do you think?” I asked as I slid my underwear back on and found my shorts from earlier on
the chair.
“You don’t like it?” I asked a little upset.
“Well, I prefer you with long hair. But I guess it looks okay.” He took a sip and came back to the bed with
the remote.
“Well, kind of! You could just say it looks nice!” I rolled over away from him. I just wanted to go to sleep.
I could just hear him sigh loudly, as if he wanted to go into it more. I just ignored him and closed my
eyes.
I was completely worn out from the all of the excitement between the test and my winning, so I was
glad to be in bed and finally getting some sleep. Tomorrow was going to be very exciting as well. I heard
Liam turn on the TV on for a short time before I fell asleep.
The room phone had woken me up at 9:30. I answered to find Stephanie, the young woman that carded
me after winning, on the line. She sounded awfully cheery for being at work this early, especially after
we had been down in the casinos late. I felt like I was going to be sick, but grabbed a bottle of water out
of the fridge and took a long sip.
“Well I was going to have the caterers put to work, but since it’s a small group, how about I just I
arrange a special meal for the four of you down atour steakhouse and provide a wonderful cake for the
party?”
“Stephanie this is more than enough, I think that will be all. We’re going to Haze this evening if you
would like to join us! We have a table and bottle service arranged if you would like to stop by for a
drink?” I invited.
“I met a nice manager down in the casino and was bragging about Courtney getting married last night
and she was really happy to help arrange some extras into the mix. She is arranging a dinner for the four
of us down at the steakhouse downstairs and getting them a cake! How cool, huh?” I said excitedly.
“Wow, they were happy to do that?” He asked confused. I didn’t want to quite break to him that they do
it for big winners, but was playing it as if they like nice people who ask.
“Not sure, she sounded drunk and I haven’t had any coffee yet to deal with that.” I picked the phone
back up and dialed up Court’s room. “Hey, Mrs. Goodson! Do you guys want to go down and get some
Starbucks?” I said a little too excited when Courtney answered the phone.
“Actually, I just got a call from that Stephanie girl from last night; she said that we are getting a free
breakfast! You really pulled some strings, didn’t you?” She enthusiastically asked. She then lowered her
voice. “How are you feeling?”
“I didn’t know about that, but I do know of a couple surprises this evening! You guys have a great
breakfast! I am going to go down with Liam and getsome coffee and maybe a light breakfast. I need to
fit into my dress still!” I paused and looked back at Liam and lowered my voice a little. “Yeah, I’m good.”
“Me too!” She squealed. “Alright, we are heading downstairs to grab some food. Thank you Ryleigh!”
“You’re welcome, Court.” I hung up the phone and headed into the bathroom to find Liam already
showering.
I stepped into the water and even though I knew that he wanted to have a little fun in the shower, all I
wanted to do was hurry and get through washing up and head downstairs. I wanted to get some coffee
and food in me and I was getting excited to help Court get ready for her big day!
I finished up my shower and got dressed. I realized how much I really loved my shorter hair when I
began to blow dry it. It was so much easier to deal with and didn’t take nearly as long to fix it. I could
only imagine how much time I would save in the mornings getting ready for work.
We headed down once I finished up my little makeup and headed downstairs to get some breakfast and
most of all coffee. Liam held my hand the entire way downstairs, but kept looking around like he was
looking for someone. That made me a little nervous, but he would kiss my hand or my cheek to reassure
me everything was okay.
We sat down at a little table by the pool; we both enjoyed a muffin and shared a cup of fruit. We sipped
our coffee, almost in complete silence except how much we both enjoyed the atmosphere of Vegas. I
tried to play out in my head how I was going to drop this entire bomb on him, but continued on about
how everyone was someone completely different here,they could be a top attorney or amazing plastic
surgeon but when they came to Vegas for the weekend, they were revisiting their college years.
I reached up for his hand and stood up with him. We threw away our trash and headed towards the
bank of elevators. As we arrived we ran into Courtney and Jason kissing each other. I cleared my throat
very loudly so I was heard when we approached them.
“Yeah, man, come on over! These ladies need to primp and groom themselves.” I shoved once again.
“Oh, and I wanted to apologize about last night. Iwas a dick and shouldn’t have walked out on you.” He
looked as if it were painful to say.
“All good, man. Thanks for the invite, I will grab my stuff and then come on over.” Jason said before he
kissed Courtney on the head.
We all headed up and went to our separate rooms to each grab our things. I grabbed my yellow dress,
shoes and makeup bag and headed for the door. Liam stopped me before I could open it.
“Ryleigh, I’m serious!” He said a bit louder and grabbed my wrist a little tighter. “I don’t appreciate you
being a bitch about it. You weren’t there last night. He made me feel like he was lecturing me about
being a good husband!” I didn’t think it was possible, but I could feel his grip tighten.
I quickly pulled my hand away as his grip loosened and could tell I was going to have a mark on wrist. He
never had laid a hand on me; this took me by complete surprise me. I already could see a mark on my
wrist as I opened the door. Fuck.
I walked down to Court’s room rubbing my wrist hoping that she wouldn’t notice. Fat chance. I knocked
on the door and put my dress over my wrist, to delay the reaction. Jason opened the door smiling; he
obviously was getting as excited as Courtney was.
“Me too, Ryleigh. I love her so much! Alright, makeyourselves beautiful and all that good stuff and I will
see you guys downstairs at 2:30. Don’t be late, well I know you won’t be, but make sure she doesn’t run
late.” He laughed and headed downstairs to get hissuit pressed.
“I’m in the bathroom. I was in the shower; I’ll be out in just a second!” She hollered behind the closed
door. I laid my dress out on the bed next to hers and sat down towards the top of the bed and turned on
the TV. I found it funny that Sex in the City was on and it was the wedding scene. I sat there watching
and rubbing my wrist.