AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I knew how to speak a few languages. It made it harder to get fucked over.
“Este noche no tengo nada pedo una Cristal para ti.” He replied he didn’t have anything but a beer for me tonight, sliding it over the bar to me.
I nodded again and took a swig of the beer, turning my attention to the laughter echoing from the corner of the room.
“Read ’em and weep, gentlemen!” she exclaimed, throwing a domino tile on the table in front of her.
Almost knocking me on my ass seeing her in the place I least expected.
DUCHESS
“No jodas, otra vez?”
“I don’t know why you pendejos play with me. You know I win every time.” I chuckled, flipping my hair to the side as I racked up another set. “Otra vez?” I asked them for another round to play.
They both shook their heads and got up from the table.
“Pussies,” I muttered under my breath before taking a sip of my rum bottle.
I wasn’t fond of girly drinks. I drank rum in Cuba because it was the best, but I drank bourbon in the States. Sometimes just for shits and giggles, I’d do shots of tequila. For being fairly petite, I could handle my own when it came to liquor. Men were always surprised by how much I could take down on any given night. Going toe-to-toe and sometimes drinking them under the table.
“Yo juego contigo,” I heard a familiar, husky voice say they’d play with me from above.
Arching an eyebrow, I greeted, “Mira lo que arrastró el gato.” I told him look what that cat dragged in.
“Puedo decir lo mismo por ti,” he argued that he could say the same for me.
I wasn’t surprised he spoke Spanish. Everyone in Miami did.
I gestured to the chair in front of me. “By all means, you know how to play Cuban Dominos?”
He sat, nodding. “I can hold my own.”
“Oh yeah? How about you put your money where your mouth is?”
“How much we talkin’?”
“Winner gets a g?”
He cocked his head to the side. “You want to bet a grand?”
“Yeah.” I shrugged. “I’m assuming a bossman like you can afford it.”
“A bossman like me, huh? And what kind of man would that be?”
I eyed him up and down. “Look at you. Dressed in thousand-dollar suits and Louis Vuitton shoes in Havana? You asking to get mugged?”
He confidently spewed, “No one fucks with me.”
“Oh, that’s right…” I mocked. “You’re the big badass Jameson.”
“You know my name. It’s only fair I know yours.”
“Everyone knows your name.”
“And nobody knows yours.”
“I’m Duchess. That’s all anyone needs to know.”
