“Yes!” I was then approached by a very sweet girl, who didn’t even look old enough to be in Vegas let alone work here.
“Miss. Congrats on your winnings! I am just going to need to check your ID, please.” Her badge read Stephanie.
“Of course!” I still squealed at the poor girl. I pulled out my idea and showed her. “Sorry, Stephanie, I didn’t mean to shriek at you! I have never won anything before and this was just so incredibly exciting.”
“Well congrats again Miss Andrews. If you print out your ticket and take it over to the cashier, you can collect your winnings. Are you a guest of this hotel?”
“I am! Room 26310.” I grabbed my room key just in case. I was going to correct her to Mrs. Andrews, but was not in the mood to go through all that.
“That’s not necessary; we’d love to compensate a night stay.” Stephanie said looking at all of us. “Actually THAT is not necessary, it is my friend, here, her wedding is tomorrow afternoon and if you could possibly help with that; that would be really appreciated.” I said smiling over at Courtney and Jason.
“I think we can help you out with that. Congrats to the two of you as well! Miss Andrews, may I actually get your room number one more time, this way I can call you in the morning to work something out.” Stephanie said as she pulled out her pen and pad.
I printed out my ticket for my winnings all while I was arranging a call time with Stephanie. Afterward, I headed towards the cashier booth. I was so excited I had actually won, I never had hit anything over twenty bucks before and that was if I was lucky. I really didn’t care to share my excitement with Liam, he missed it and that was now on him and it didn’t even seem to bother me that he was still missing.
I didn’t want to lose any of my winnings so I told Courtney and Jason I was done for the night. They had agreed, both of them looked like they were ready tospend some alone time together anyhow. We all headed up to our floor and went to our separate rooms.
When I opened my door the curtains had been closed. I didn’t remember closing them, but knew that sometimes the housekeepers closed them during evening turndowns. I flipped on the switch; I saw Liam was lying in the bed. He had been asleep. I quickly turned off so he could wake up without a bright light.
“Hey, what are you doing up here?” I asked as he sat up rubbing his eyes. I felt nauseous again and thought I was going to have to make a run for the bathroom, but just took in some deep breaths. “Well, this is my room still. Unless, you’re stillupset with me.” Liam said sleepily, he sounded as if he were being a smart ass.
“No, it’s still your room. It’s just, Jason told me that you guys had a fight during dinner and that you walked off. We’ve been downstairs looking for you.”
“Yeah, I’m sorry. He pointed out what an ass I was being earlier, but at that point I was already feeling bad and he kept pushing it. I needed to go for a walk. I sat at a blackjack table for a little bit, but wasn’t having any luck so I just took a walk down the strip for a little bit and then came back here. I thought you girls were going to go out?” He quickly changed the subject.
“We went to dinner and we both agreed that we weretired.” I felt the moment of truth on the tip of my tongue but it was definitely not the time. “The sun, flight and being pampered finally caught up with us. We had a mini slumber party in her room before we went to find you. We are still going out tomorrow though.” I smiled and laid down next to him. I needed to get off my feet, and most of all rest my nerves.
He snuggled up next to me and started to kiss my head, cheeks and then my lips. I could feel his hand stroking down my jeans as it came back up he undidthe button. I could feel his fingers slip into my pants and in between my lacy thong. He began to rub my clit as I arched my back and my eyes rolled into the back of my head. His fingers felt amazing, but I couldn’t help but feel guilty. I didn’t want to stop, but I also didn’t want to go any further.
I could feel him teasing me, I moaned out in pleasure. I dug my nails into his arm not knowing if I wanted to push him away or closer to me. I could feel I was so close though! I needed him to keep going so I could release this orgasm that was quickly building up.
“God! Liam! Don’t stop!” I screamed out. 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.
“Ryleigh!” He groaned out. 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.
“Is it just me or did you lose some hair?” Liam jokingly asked. “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.
“Well. It’ll grow back. I don’t know why you chopped it off. If you like it that is great, you still look the same.” He said as he grabbed a soda from our fridge. “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.
“Gee thanks.” I said hurt and lay back down on the bed.
“You’re upset now?” He said throwing the remote down. “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.
“Good morning Miss Andrews. This is Stephanie the Casino manager. We spoke last night about your friends’ wedding.” She said happily.
“Good morning. Please, Stephanie call me Ryleigh. You aren’t waking me; well actually you did, but I need to get up and tend to the bride, so thanks.” I said smiling.
“Alright, Ryleigh I need to get a little bit of info from you, how many people will be attending the ceremony this evening?” She inquired.
“It will just be four of us. The bride, groom and then me and my husband, Liam.” “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?”
“Wow, Stephanie that sounds perfect! I’m sure that my friend, Courtney, will be absolutely thrilled! Thank you very much!” I said happily, noticing that I was waking Liam up.
“What’s going on?” He whispered and I held up a finger to single just a moment.
“Is there anything else I could help with you, Ryleigh?” Stephanie asked, you could tell she was more than happy to help. “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.
“Thank you, Ryleigh. However, they frown upon us drinking in our place of work. I’ll make sure to pass on the word down there that you are going to be joining them, though.”
“You don’t have to do that!”
“It is our pleasure, Ryleigh. Will you send a congratulations from everyone here at the Aria, to your friend and husband? Enjoy your day as well!” She said kindly.
“Thanks again for your hel
p! You have a great day as well.” I said as we hung up.
“What’s going on?” Liam repeated. “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.
“Yeah, I think that she is just a hopeless romantic and saw how much in love they were last night.” I lied.
I then got out of bed and looked at the coffee maker and decided that this hotel room packet coffee was not going to cut it this morning. I remembered that I saw there was a Starbucks down in the lobby.
“I’m going to run down to Starbucks, do you want me to bring you back anything or do you want to come with me?” I asked grabbing my shower stuff.
“I’ll join you. Should we see if the love birds want to go?” Liam asked as he started to get out of bed.
“Good idea let me ring up her room.” I said grabbing the receiver. I noticed that someone was already on the other line.
“Hello?” I asked. I could hear a girl on the other end. She was giggling.
“Um. Helllllooo.” She obviously was still drunk from the night before.
“You must have the wrong number.” I said a little annoyed and hung up, I really didn’t want to deal with a drunken girl this early in the morning.
“Who was that?” Liam asked. “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.”
“Liam is there then, what time did he get back?” She quietly asked.
“I am not going to ruin any surprises for you! You’ll have to see later!” I lied but she quickly picked up that he was next to me.
“Oh he is right there, okay, tell me later. Remember the wedding is at 2:30, so I was thinking if you could help me get everything ready about noon-ish?” She asked.
“Of course! I will be at your room at 12 sharp! I am so excited!” I really was ecstatic. “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.
“Can I come in?” I asked as I poked my head in through curtain.
“Sure. Water is wonderful! Company is always welcome.” He smiled. 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!
“Everything okay?” Liam asked.
“Yeah! I’m just trying to play through all the things I need to do to get Courtney organized for today and then make sure that I am ready as well.” I said uncertainly.
“Everything will be just fine.” He leaned in for a kiss and then stepped out of the shower.
“I’m sure it will be, too. I just can’t help worry that I will forget something.” I definitely was having butterflies about everything that was going on this weekend. 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.
We both laughed at the thought of both of our bosses possibly coming to Vegas and acting like complete idiots. It was nice to take my mind off of the pending conversation.
I glanced down at my phone and had a missed call as I checked the time. It was 11:27, I needed to finish up and head upstairs to help Courtney start gettingready.
“What time is it?” Liam asked as he finished up thelast strawberry.
“Almost 11:30. I need to finish up here and head upstairs. I am kicking Jason out, mind if I send him your way?” I asked sipping the last couple drops of my coffee.
“That’s cool. I owe him an apology anyway.” He stood up and held out his hand for mine. 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.
“Don’t you know that you actually aren’t supposed to see each other the day of the wedding?” I asked with a smile.
“Oh shut up! We aren’t having a traditional wedding anyway, so it’s okay that I see him.” Court said rolling her eyes.
“Well you have perfect timing; I was going to head up to come over to your room! Jason, you can go over to our room and chill out and get ready there.” I shoved Liam with my elbow. “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.
“Hey, I love you.” He said as he leaned in for a kiss.
“I love you too!” I said with a smile. He grabbed onto my wrist.
“But make me feel like shit; in front of someone that I feel was wrong for going off on me in a public restaurant, I’m going to get really pissed off. Understand?” He said coldly.
“Yeah, I get it.” I said rolling my eyes. “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.
“Liam! That fucking hurts! Let go!” I screamed out. Tears were building in my eyes as I tried to pull away.
“I know I fucked up, but I don’t need one of my friends to point it out, my WIFE already pointed out and that is all that should have happened!” He said through gritted teeth, angrily. 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.
“Hey there, Groomie! Are you all set? Before you answer, I hope your answer is a yes, cause I am kicking you out anyway.” I laughed.
“Yeah, I just need to see if they can press a suit downstairs, so if you can call up Liam and let him know I will be over later.” I interrupted him.
“He’ll be fine being alone for a bit. Go do what you need to do.” I smiled and gave him a brief hug. “I’m so happy this is happening.” “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 promise!” I hollered after him laughing. I shut the door to find Court wasn’t anywhere in the room. “Court? Where are you?” I asked aloud. “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.
“What’s wrong with your wrist?!” Court said loudly, standing in awe in the doorway.
“Don’t worry about it, it’s nothing. Let’s start getting your hair done. How are you going to wear it?” I asked trying to avoid the conversation.
“Ryleigh! Did Liam do this?” She grabbed my wrist. It wasn’t bruised but it was red.
“We were playing around and he grabbed it a little hard. It truly is nothing, okay? It is now all about you. You should be telling ME this, not the other way around!” “Alright, if you say so.” I could tell that she knew I was lying, but she was getting nervous about her wedding, she seemed to let it go. “I was thinking of wearing my hair in waves. What do you think?” She asked as she messed with her hair.
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