little salad and cold-pressed watermelon water from the little eatery also on the eighteenth floor. Hydrates after all the things we’ve done today and helps to prepare you for whatever craziness you do tonight.” Suzanne winked.
“I like this girl.” Jinx grinned. “I like her a lot.”
“You girls are a trip.” Suzanne helped Chloe out of her chair.
The checkout process was terrifyingly simple. She just had to sign a little electronic clipboard. The number was slightly nauseating, but it was whipped out of her hand so fast that she didn’t have time to digest it.
Oh, she memorized it. Definitely knew that four-digit number like the last four of her social, but she was trying like hell to block it out.
They were shuffled off with huge shopping bags and a bunch of product as well as samples. Oh, and the robes. Couldn’t forget those bits of lusciousness.
She would guard hers with her life, and pray that she could keep peanut butter and jelly off of it for at least one full day. Maybe a week if she hid it in the back of her closet and only put it on after Axl was in bed for the night.
Maybe.
This time, the elevator was designed like a desert sunset. There were a mind-boggling number of elevators on every floor of the damn hotel. So many floors. It was like a maze. And the little room card was their golden ticket to everything.
Terrifyingly awesome.
The doors opened on eighteen. She thought she’d been prepared after the luxury of The Golden Dragon, but that one had nothing on the chrome, gold, and glass of the shops that seemed to go on forever.
They followed the signs to the eatery Suzanne mentioned. The watermelon drink was ridiculous, and the salad was just enough to kill the empty feeling living in her gut. Nerves didn’t allow her to eat too much, but she didn’t want to be looped after one drink, so food was a necessity.
“Are you done yet?” Ivy asked again.
“Dude, what’s the rush?” Chloe sat back on the dainty white wrought iron chair. They were eating next to a glass balcony that looked down over two more floors. There was a double escalator and a massive fountain below.
One of the casino entrances was flooded with people streaming from the slot machines to electronic card games. It wasn’t the main casino, but there seemed to be a dozen smaller game stations all over the hotel. In between were restaurants galore and a huge archway that teased the shark attraction in another building.
It was a feast for the senses.
And made her dizzy as hell, and not because of the height. She just couldn’t imagine this many people in one space. Hell, she lived in LA, but it didn’t feel like this. It was claustrophobic sometimes, but at least there was space and the ocean. There were little pockets where she could actually get away with Axl and sit on a patch of grass.
This was just ostentatious and overwhelming.
A world so outside of her own.
“Earth to Chloe.”
“Hmm?” She turned to Ivy. “Sorry. Just people watching.”
“Anyone hot?”
She laughed. “I hadn’t noticed.” How sad was it that she wasn’t even looking for men? The last man she’d been with was Snake. Her hormones had closed up shop sometime between her pregnancy and losing him to the accident.
They’d emerged a few times for brief moments of mayhem, but the trouble of having a man in her life outweighed the benefits of getting naked with one.
You can get in all sorts of trouble this weekend.
She pushed aside that little voice. It was pretty quiet most of the time. Actually, probably in a coma more often than not. Getting an average of four hours of sleep a night usually kept that voice dormant.
“Girl, that needs to change.” Jinx slapped the table. “You’re a screaming hot ginger. You need to own that.”
“Sounds like an adult beverage.”
“That’s awesome.” Ivy pulled out her phone. “I’m totally writing that down. We’ll find a bartender to create it.”
“God save me.”
Jinx stood up. “God has no place in Sin City, baby.”
Chloe looked up at her. “I don’t like that look in your eye.”
Jinx hauled her sister up. “The longer your butt sits in that chair, the shorter your skirt is on the dress I deem worthy for tonight’s festivities.”
Chloe got up. “All right, all right. No need to get so bossy.”
She let them drag her across the unbelievably sparkly marble and obsidian checkered floors to Luxe’s gilded doors. Chloe’s stomach dropped. Yeah,