On some desolate country road covered in snow, a woman leaves a baby and some blankets. for one last time, the woman took a glance at the innocent baby giving off a sorrowful look before hurrying away.
A woman lying on a king size bed gasped as she woke up from a dream, then started to shifts and sighed deeply, she squeezed her eyes closed wanting to forget everything from that dream.
"Does a person need a reason to live, can a person live life without any purpose?" She thought to herself, oblivious with the person beside her, sleeping and snoring in small sounds.
*Lisa*
I sat up from the bed, massaging my temple as I felt my head throbbing in pain possibly the cause of non-stop drinking of alcohol. Then I heard my phone vibrated from a little table beside me. I started sliding my hand from my nape squeezing and looked up to the wall clock, 10:23 P.M. it says. I stood up from the bed, ignoring the continuous sound coming from the phone on the table. Looking in front of the mirror, a slender figure leaning on the door was evident through my peripheral view, wearing my sweater, and a panty, leaving her pearl-like legs exposed within my eyes.
"When did you wake up?" I asked, and started splashing the running water from the sink to my face.
"Just when you started running the water. you know, you should answer those calls from your friend. It kept bugging me from my deep slumber." She stated, waving my phone as I looked at her reflection in the mirror.
I leaned both of my hands within the sink, turning off the running water. As I looked again in the mirror, a deep and husky sighed was the only sound I could do.
"I gotta go, Taehyung is probably waiting for me in the casino." I took the phone from her hand giving me an awful look.
"before that, can we talk? I've got a lot of important things to say." She started caressing her hair and sat on a couch facing my back.
"Is it-" a call from Taehyung interrupted me from talking. I answered the phone while staring at the girl in front of me with a gloomy face. I gave off an apologetic look before talking within the line.
"Hey, where are you? I've been calling you for god knows how many times!" a cold voice came over the line, grumbling and shouting in a friendly way.
"I'm on my way Taehyung, I ended up sleeping right after drinking." Wandering my hands inside the closet to find a clothes to wear for tonight's event, which is to play and to win a large amount of money from those bastards having a big name in industry.
"Okay, meet me outside the casino at 12. I'll give you the details of this person you're supposed to play with. He's one of the big fish, and pretty sure that's a lot of money." Right after the talk, he ended the call.
"Son of a pig" I muttered between my breaths. And threw my phone on the bed, unaware of the stabbing looks that the girl was giving to me. Then I took my clothes, wore a white tank, combining it with a dirty white turtle neck completely surrounding my long and slender neck, a black tight pants, white shoes and a maroon long sleeve overcoat made of wool to secure myself from snow and cold breeze outside.
I noticed the uncomfortable silence inside the room, I looked and stood in front of the girl, kneeling and leveling her face.
"I'm sorry, this is really urgent. Even Taehyung told me that this one is an important person, and I can't just neglect this one." I caressed her left knee, implying to forgive me as my eyebrow started to narrow in a soft way. She let out a soft sigh and stared right into my eyes.
"I really want to talk this thing with you, but I guess this conversation can wait." Her face softened and caressed my left cheek with her thumb.
"Thank you, I'll see you and we'll talk about it later." I pecked her soft lips and bid my goodbye as I closed the door.
Outside the apartment, I felt the cold breeze of the wind through my face. As I locate for my car parked together with the other cars in a parking lot, my face started to reddened cause of the cold atmosphere lingering within the place. Pressing the button of my car key, a sound came from the southern part giving me a signal where my car is located at. I walked towards the car, entered myself inside and started running the engine on my way to the casino.
Reaching the huge building wherein a word "Seven Luck Casino" was largely displayed and embossed, it was full of bright red and yellow lights reflecting within my car's window, telling me that I've already arrived to my destination. from afar, a young tall man with a blonde hair was standing and waiting for my arrival, as he noticed a familiar car, he started waving his arms and producing a bright smile.
"You're literally taking your time, I'm already freezing here outside. Can't you see how red my nose is?" pointing his index finger on his reddish nose.
"Who told you to wait outside, solely wearing a suit on this freezing temperature?" I started laughing, and tapped his shoulder to get inside the building.
"So, this big fish is known as Yang Hyun Suk, 46 of age, a CEO to be precise. He's really good at playing 3 card poker." He started scrolling through his phone, not giving any attention to me.
A 3 card poker huh? I thought to myself as we walked through the corrigdor, letting a smirk slip off of my face. A game where I lead and won the most, Three Card Poker is based on stud poker, but odds are different when hands consist of three cards. Because the odds are different, the hand rankings are slightly different. In Three Card Poker, straights are rarer than flushes and outrank them. In five-card games, flushes outrank straights.
As we entered the room filled of disgusting smell of nicotine, people wearing elegant clothes, jewelry was evident in every part of their body from the hands up to their necks. Giving off a vibe that every person inside this filthy room is provided of large amount of wealth. But not me, I'm not even rich in the first place, nor have this so called silver spoon in my mouth. I'm a gambler and a con artist, I play games specifically in casino and tricked them by making their brains believed that they lose the game which is actually not. On the other side of the casino, a large door awaits me, Taehyung opened the door revealing a dim atmosphere of the room, wherein a table caught my attention placed in between the space where a middle aged man's silhouette is seen sitting on a luxury couch and started walking on my direction. I felt a heavy tension within the room, causing me to sweat in beads on my temple.
"A pleasant evening, I'm Mr. Yang Hyun Suk, CEO of Yang Corp." He stretched out his broad hand to me Informing me how abundant his name is on the industry.
"Name's Lisa, people were telling me how good you are in a poker game." My lips formed a smile, meeting his hand with my right hand gently squeezing it.
"Oh well, I've never been defeated. Guess that's how good I am." He chuckled. And proceeds on the chair, sitting on a chair facing me.
"Guess this will be your first time feeling it." I smirked while caressing my left eyebrow with my fingers. A vein popped out from his hand as he clenched it notifying me that he got irritated from what I've told him. Unaware of our surrounding, a man came inside wearing a white long sleeve polo, with black vest and a black ribbon tied around his neck, carrying a deck of cards. Which implies that he's the dealer of the night. He bid his greeting to the both of the player, then started explaining the rules of the game.
"You simply choose between a couple of bets before the deal, see what 3 cards you receive and hope for the best." He ended his speech and began to distribute the card one by one. On the other hand, Mr. Yang placed his bet, pushing the chips both of his hands between the table.
"10 Billion Won won't hurt right?" he snickered between his breath
"1 Billion" I pushed my chips in front, staring at him with unfazed look.
"feeling a little scared Miss Lisa?" his voice was surely irritating me, but I managed to smirked and made him feel a little uncomfortable with it. While Taehyung was solely focused on the cards I was holding.
An hour passed, the chips of Mr. Yang were no more visible on our eyes. Fear and nervousness are written all over his face, beads of sweat were clearly seen on his forehead, wiping it continuously.
"Are you sure you still wanted to continue Mr. Yang? You looked anxious." Waving my card which shows a set of straight flush, that almost made him faint knowing he already loss the game.
"I-I'm fine, I still have a lot of money. This ain't a big deal, we can still continue." He stuttered, as his hands began to tremble. A smirk was evident all over my face. Wanting to see how much he can suffer from his defeat and how much money I could gain from this game.
"You're doing a great job, Lisa." Taehyung started massaging my shoulder, easing the tension I felt in every card I received. For the one final game, the dealer started shuffling the cards and distributed each card. The atmosphere began to feel hot, Mr. Yang's uneasiness was clearly seen within his eyes. Every tick of the clock gave off a heavy feeling within my chest.
Slowly, checking each of my card. First card flushes a Queen of hearts. The second was another Queen of spades. Both of my palms started sweating causing me to tremble more, then I heard Mr. Yang Chuckled which caught my attention and gazed through his direction. I looked at Taehyung feeling more tensed than ever, he gave me a comforting look telling me not to worry about it. For the last card, I swear to god I began to pray inside my head to let it be a Queen card. After a minute, the middle aged man became terrified, and slumped himself on the floor, unable to pronounce a word. Whimpering were the only sound heard inside the room.