The Billionaire's Bet #4: A Final Game (Erotic Romance with alpha male) by Clarissa Wild Read Free Book Online

The lobby was filled with people, and not anyone looked up. Everything seemed normal. Nobody looked hurt. There was nothing out of the ordinary.
    We walked inside, and Dominic’s head turned from side to side, scanning every part of the lobby. My legs were shaking , and I tried to regulate my breathing, but it was out of control.
    “Sit down in a corner and don’t be conspicuous. Pretend you’re one of the guests,” he whispered.
    I nodded and sat down somewhere in between an old couple in the middle of the lobby, but not too prominently visible. Dominic walked toward the open ground and started turning around, watching people move. His eyes were like those of a hawk, scouting the area, noticing every move, calculating if it was a dangerous one.
    A man approached him. Dominic winced.
    “Someone told me to give you this,” the man said. I could barely make it out.
    Dominic read the note and crumpled it in his hands that were forming fists. He walked toward the roulette table and stood in between a man and a woman, watching the game. I couldn’t see clearly enough what they looked like.
    Shit! Why did I have to sit down here?
    I didn’t know what they were doing or what they were saying, but something told me this was bad. The lady whispered something into his ear. Then she walked sideways, still unrecognizable to me.
    Suddenly the man next to him rummaged in his pocket and pointed his jacket in an awkward way at Dominic.
    I heard a bang and fell off my stool. My eyes were closed and my hearing was one big beep. The sounds were muffled, but I could hear the high pitched voices of the people beside me. They were screaming.
    I blinked and lifted myself off the floor. I looked around and tried to focus. At the roulette table was a body. Blood stained the carpet below him.
    It was Dominic.
    I screamed, but I don’t know if any sound came from my mouth. My throat was dry, and I couldn’t hear anything but my own unruly heartbeat. The people around me ran away, but they seemed like blurry shadows to me. My body grew cold as I crawled toward him.
    When I reached him I could only see red blotches on his clothes that grew bigger and bigger. His hands were clenched tightly on the wound. He winced and closed his eyes, cursing and screaming at the same time. Then he coughed up blood.
    “Dominic!” I yelled, and I pried away his fingers to look at the wound.
    An alarm finally went off. It seemed like hours before the casino staff had noticed someone was shot.
    I held his hand and brushed away the blood spatters on his face. My face was wet with tears. I cried so much, but it didn’t help. The hands that were once firm, weakened their grip on mine.
    “Dominic? Dominic, stay with me!” I said, and I shook him a bit, but to no avail.
    His eyes closed shut, and his head dropped to the floor. Sharon came running up beside me.
    “Code red, code red, this is an emergency. Get an ambulance, right now,” she yelled through a walky-talky.
    “Where were you?” I screamed at her. “You were supposed to protect him!” I grabbed her coat and shook her, but she pinched my hands and pushed me away.
    “I’m sorry, Julie. I wasn’t there when it happened. I was patrolling the upper floor when this started.”
    “Did you catch them?” I yelled.
    She shook her head and bit her lip. “I’m sorry, Julie. They managed to infiltrate the fleeing crowd and ran away.”
    I frowned, angry at everything and everyone, and turned my attention back to Dominic. He wasn’t conscious anymore, and I was desperate to know if he was still alive. When I lowered my head near his lips and nose, I couldn’t hear him breathe.
    My sobs became louder and louder, but the sound echoed into the void that ripped my heart to shreds.
     
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    The trip in the ambulance seemed to last forever. I held his hand during the ride toward the hospital, but he wasn’t awake. I prayed for his wellbeing, hoping it might make a difference. Sharon sat beside me with a