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Drew

“Knox, have one of your guys check on table six Valerie pressed her in-house silent alarm”

Knox Dawson, my head of security and best friend, nodded and silently left the security roo track of well over two thousand cameras A lot of casinos would rather buy more slot machines than focus on security, but I didn’t take the same attitude I wanted my employees and patrons to be as safe as possible Each table had two buttons for the dealer One alerted hotel security,The second was directly to the police in case of a robbery

I brought my eyes back to table six and saw that Knox had sent Paul as now bent low and speaking to a lass of what I presu his drink and chips off of the table Paul tried to speak one uard showed up and the two of them “escorted” him out of the casino

“Whoa,” said one of the guys watching the monitors “Check out the babe in the lobby Day-um”

My eyes strayed to the screen showing the check-in desk It wasn’t hard to knoho they were talking about and to h me and a dark sense of possession followed in its wake

I was thirty-two years old and I already owned one of thethe Lennox Hotel & Casino had been le- on my mind As evidenced by my last few relationship, which broke up because the woed and moved on It wasn’t as if I hadn’t warned the a relationship felt like more hassle than it orth It had been years since I’d been with anyone, and in all that ti to find a bed blood into my cock was a complete surprise

She was gorgeous with dark curly hair and a curvy body I couldn’t see her face close enough to know her eye color, but I io with her hair and olive-toned skin She was standing in the check-in line, her hand resting on the handle of a s to stay long, but the fact that it wasn’t a si told me that I wasn’t in a complete rush

“I don’t swing that way and even I would consider tapping that,” drawled Karyn, one of the few females on my security team Chuckles echoed around the room

“She’s off limits,” I snarled, my tone so harsh it drew every eye to oes near her unless it’s to protect her” My face hardened andaround “Is that clear?”

Eyes wide and mouths slack, every one of theine what they were thinking Nor and patience Unless you fucked with me, my friends and family, my business, or as, one that ensured that people most certainly knew not to piss me off

With one last glare of warning, I left the security room and strode purposefully towards my office Once I was inside, with door firmly shut, I dropped into my desk chair and pulled up multiple feeds for the lobby camera on the wall of television screens I picked up the phone and punched the code in for the check-in desk

“What can I do for you, Mr Lennox?” a perky voice inquired

“The woreen dress, with the dark curly hair”

“Yes, sir?”

“When she gets to the counter, text me her name And, tell her we lost her reservation and for the inconvenience, we’ll upgrade her room”

“Um, okay,” the desk attendant mumbled “What room do you want me to put her in? We’re booked solid, Mr Lennox”

I answered without hesitation “The Silver Suite”

This tiether and chirped, “Yes, sir”