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After my rebirth, I never picked up any of Alaric McCall’s calls. I’d glance at his messages before deleting them without reply. Every night, I was out at the clubs with my best friend, surrounded by a rotating cast of handsome young men. On the night of my eighth blackout, I staggered home to my apartment. Alaric McCall was standing there. “The man you were with tonight. Where did he touch you?” I was still drunk enough to laugh. “My hand. Dice don’t shake themselves.” Instantly, his eyes darkened. He spoke to the men behind him, “Find him. Break his hand.” A smirk tugged at my lips as I walked straight inside. “Suit yourself.” In the life before this one, I was his wife for eight years. People called me the Queen of the Tables. I won him the Olympus Casino. I stood by his side as he clawed his way up from street thug to the king of the Las Vegas underground. But as soon as his position was secure, he fell for a new dealer at the casino. Her name was Chloe. She’d been sold to the casino, a girl who knew nothing about our world. Alaric himself placed her in the VIP room, teaching her how to deal, how to read the chips. Then I found it. Our marriage record had been altered in the casino’s internal system to show we were divorced. When I confronted him, Alaric was ice. “Chloe has no one. This title… it will keep her safe.” “No one in this city dares cross you, Elodie. Why get upset over just a piece of paper?” I stormed into the card room and slapped Chloe. That night, they brought my younger brother, Leo, back to me. He worked for Alaric. They broke his legs right in front of me, then dumped him in the alley behind the casino. “This, Elodie, is the price for touching Chloe.” I clung to Alaric, begging him to cease, but blood covered Leo’s face as he perished in front of me. A hot gush of liquid ran down my legs. A tearing pain ripped through my abdomen. When I opened my eyes again, I was back. Back on the day I first discovered the alter
