Betting on an Omega's Life: She's the Legendary Gambler novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: The Scent

It came out of him.

Smoke on wet iron, old leather, a thick sweetness underneath that made my teeth ache.

I had smelled Castiglioni's scent once before, at the Blue Door, through a wall.

I had not understood what it was for.

Now it rolled across the felt and over the stool and out to the walls, and the room began to break.

A man in the second row went down on one knee.

A woman near the door put her hand over her mouth and slid down the plaster.

The gaming officials loosened their collars.

Two of Rafe's guards, big Betas, took a step back and looked sick.

Pearl pulled Junie off the floor into her lap, and tucked the little girl's face into the green cardigan.

Junie was fine.

A scent like that does not reach a child.

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