In almost every respect, I'm an ordinary thirty-seven-year-old guy, tall but not too tall, good looking but a chiseled jaw short of handsome. I've got my health but not much wealth. I'm just to the right side of being a median average male.
My job is as a curator at a natural history museum in California. My passion is digging for fossils in places no one would visit unless they are a scientist or deranged. Come to think of it, the two are synonymous. Who else would hike four miles into the wilderness with fifty pounds on their back, camp, battle bugs the size of footballs, and take a shit among rattlesnakes? I love my job but it's as isolated as being in solitary confinement. I mean, women are as rare as Tyrannosaurus bones.
They occasionally let me out of the museum on good behavior. It's not often but it's a chance to greet the real world. That real world is in Las Vegas. Wait! That's not the real world either. I like to go there because I'm good with numbers. I've been good with numbers since the third grade and as an undergrad wrote a paper on probability theory. I know the odds. They're not good if you are an average gambler. They improve slightly if you know a little arithmetic, but not by much.
Oh yes, one more thing. I like women, the women in Nevada. Despite my profession's celibacy, women are the second feature in my getting lucky fantasy. They usually cost me a week's pay and I'm not talking about the hoes. Mostly, women on vacation want to be wined and dined. Maybe that's what they mean by gambling and women don't mix. I don't mind if I can get laid. Most of the gals coming to Vegas are out to have a good time so that can include a mambo on the mattress.
The truth is, winning at the tables and scoring with women are mostly about luck but not entirely. As Louis Pasteur wrote, chance favors the prepared mind, so I double up on being prepared.
First, in the field, I look like Indiana Jones but that costume isn't good salesmanship in Vegas. The James Bond, 007, look works better. A winning smile is equally important. Many women wouldn't give you a second look in the city but in Vegas, the rules change. An appealing smile means more in Sin City. I pursue smiles with the same dedication as searching for fossils.
Oh, another thing about preparation, money. Smiles and Bond don't sell nearly as well as a thick wallet. That's where I'm a little light.
So, on one of the days when the dice weren't rolling my way and the cards and wheel were conspiring against me, a woman with voluptuous tits was working the craps table with some success. As for me, I tried unsuccessfully to avoid looking down her blouse. It's an old habit and hard to break.
She had rolled three consecutive sevens and hit her point four times within a half hour. It wasn't just her enthusiasm that kept my eyeballs entertained. Each time she won, the lady would jump up and down making her unencumbered boobs bounce. When she reached down to place a bet, her tits nearly fell out of her low cut blouse. She loved the attention. I liked giving it to her.
It was time for me to make a bet with her. She rolled the dice. We both lost. That was her cue to pick up her chips and leave. I stayed for a while longer hoping to cash in on her luck. It didn't work out.
Lady luck was sitting at the bar when I left the room heading for dinner. She sat with a fat guy wearing Bermuda shorts that looked like a brightly colored patchwork quilt. His head was as bald as a billiard ball and his fat legs dangled over the side of a stool that struggled to hold him. He was trying to talk with her. She was trying to be polite without showing interest. He wasn't getting the message.
As I approached them, she looked at me and said, "Oh darling, where have you been? I won, I won, I won. I can't believe it. I won!" she beamed. "How have you done, dear?"
I got the message. "Oh, okay. I broke even," the cliché everyone who loses uses.
She followed her act with, "Honey, buy me a drink."
The fat man slunk away believing I was her husband. I figured it might be worth being her surrogate husband for one night and said, "Hey, how about you treating, ah, dear. You got the money, honey!"
I sat down next to her and ordered a Manhattan. It tasted like embalming fluid. Maybe I wasn't in the mood. She was drinking a daiquiri.
"Look, fella," she said, "you catch on pretty quick. I appreciate you going along with me on this. The guy was a bore. It might even be worth a dinner to you."
"I could use a little charity after the day I've had."
"They're not treating you well at the tables?" she asked.
"Let's say that the house has been greedy."
"Too bad," she said in a way that didn't sound too sympathetic.
We talked and ordered a second drink. She was a nice lady, had a nice smile, had a nice purr to her voice.
The Manhattans and her purr made me feel a lot better. We took our third drink with us and waltzed across the street to an all you can eat buffet. She was into seafood. I loaded up on ribs and onion rings. We went Dutch.
It was well past eleven thirty that night when we finished eating and returned to the bar. The daiquiris made her talkative. For the next hour, I heard her life story. I listened. She was recently divorced with three kids. She called herself Flora for Florence. We got along. Flora asked, "Mind seeing me home?"
I asked, "Where's home?"
"Upstairs." I was delighted to escort Flora to her room.
The double bed with six pillows was comfortable. She was even more so. I had never fucked a woman with breasts the size of melons. My lips nuzzled her nipples. My cock found a cozy place in the valley between her mountains. Flora tit fucked like a pro. I went down on her for a nightcap. My tongue curled around her clit. She liked it. She liked it even more when I speared her cunt with a solid eight inches. We bounced around together until I came hard and deep in her pussy with a month's worth of seed. She liked that too.
"You know," Flora said, "Maybe you should tell me your name."
"I thought you'd never ask. I'm Lawrence. Friends call me Larry."
"In that case, I think I'll call you Larry."
I lit a cigarette and relaxed, too relaxed. I was sleepy. Fucking can do that to a guy. I drifted off. She didn't.
When Flora waltzed out of the bathroom, her tits swayed with each step. She had my undivided attention. Everything about her gorgeous body made me eager for round two. She was about five feet six with broad hips, a pussy shaved like a crew cut and a waist that showed a little age. Flora was still very pretty for a woman a few years older than me.
"Have you recovered, Larry?" She asked. "I could use more of what you did before, only I like it doggy."
Flora laid next to me and began playing with my balls. "You know Larry, I love the feel of a man's balls. They are so soft and supple." Then she used her mouth to emphasize the point. It took a few minutes before Flora had me hard enough to activate the dog in me. She sucked me like a straw in a milkshake until I was ready. She was on all fours when we went at it again.
I like it when a woman is filled with semen. Her fluids and mine make for a slippery slope. That's what it was like. She moaned and sobbed. I grunted and groaned. We were doing human mating calls that rose to a crescendo, ending with total silence when we collapsed entangled together. I folded her into my arms and fell asleep.
I awoke at ten the next morning, Flora was gone. She left a short note. "Thanks for a lovely evening. Good luck today." I never saw her again.
I wasn't back in Vegas for several months. As always, I was as optimistic as a fool playing the Three Card Monte. This time would be different. It was but not in a way to fatten my wallet. This time I got lucky and in a surprising way. It was as different as vanilla is to chocolate.
I hadn't been at the roulette table for more than an hour when a tall black woman stood next to me. She smelled like the sweet scent of jasmine. I turned to look at her magnetic smile with teeth as white as snow. "Hi, I'm Chloe. I don't know how to play this game. Would you help me learn?"
"Of course," I said and told her the basics.
With only rudimentary information, she was doing much better than I was. I cautioned her not to play a single number because of the odds. I explained how the odds worked on a single number.
She said, "Yes, but you can win more," and placed a hundred dollar chip on number thirty-six. "Today is my birthday. I'm thirty-six today. I can't lose!"
The wheel spun. The pill dropped. She screamed. She had won. It was a thirty-five to one payday. I got a big hug and a juicy kiss and she said, "Let me buy you a drink. You bring me luck."
We found a bar. It wasn't until then that I could admire the woman's ass, as wide as the Mississippi and her legs like stilts, and her breasts that swayed when she walked. She wore stiletto heels and a t-shirt that read, "I'm a MILF Birthday Girl." I was going to enjoy my drink.
She was a teacher in the Detroit area. Chloe said a few of the girls took her to Vegas to celebrate her birthday. "Look, mister, thanks for bringing me luck. I've got to catch up with my girlfriends but hey, I'm having a birthday party tonight in my room. I'm in the Fountain View King. Say ten? Don't come unless you're ready to party."
I soon would learn what she meant by a party when I arrived shortly after ten. There were a half dozen people in the room, all were men except for Chloe lying naked on a giant king size bed with two black men. One was in her mouth, the other was reaming her pussy. After a short while, the man in her cunt pulled out and was quickly replaced by the guy getting a blow job.
She turned her head to look at me. She recognized me. Why not? I was the only white guy in the room. "Hey honey, come over here. Let's see what you got." I knew what she meant but I immediately felt inadequate and intimidated when watching the guy on top of her with a cock as thick as a Polish kielbasa.
I looked around to see he wasn't alone when it came to oversized sausages. The others were as hung as him. "Come on, baby," she said, "bring it to me."
I wasn't sure but I had the feeling some of the guys had already had their turn as they relaxed with a drink in one hand and reefer in the other. One of them nodded his head toward her and said, "Go ahead. She likes all flavors." Affirmative action never sounded so good.
Although I felt out of place, it wasn't a deal breaker. I decided to go with the flow and leave my pants on the floor when I slid next to her just as the guy on top was finishing.
"Oh, oh, oh, Jamal. That was so good, babe. That felt so good."
Chloe gazed at my cock and said, "Not bad for a white guy. Let me taste it."
While she had me down her throat, one of the other men put down his drink and climbed aboard. She had her long slender legs high over his head and far apart as he banged into her. She slurped at my dick. He grunted and groaned as he pummeled her cunt finishing with a loud guttural expletive, "Fuck, fuck, fuck." He pulled out with a plop and a gusher of cum rushed out of her slit leaving a nice creamy puddle on the sheets.
She put her arms around my neck and said, "Okay, my lucky charm, time to give me my birthday present. I can't go back to Detroit without men presenting me with lots of gifts. You don't even have to wrap it."
That was obvious. None of her friends came gift wrapped.
She turned over on her stomach with her lovely ass in the air in anticipation of receiving my birthday present. I was anxious to give it to her so I went all in. Giving is better than receiving but in this case, we were both giving and both receiving. Eventually, I gave her all I had deep in her cavernous vag.
I hung around for another half hour watching others being generous, sometimes two at a time.
I had nothing more to give when I left.
For the rest of that year, I was working at the museum and doing research in the field. I didn't get back to Vegas until February of the next year The weather was milder and the crowds were lighter.
On this trip, I watched a woman twice my age playing the dollar slots without the results she came for. The bandit was stingy and wasn't paying out. I had to admire her persistence. She had the patience of a saint and little to show for it. I don't play the slots. The odds are worse than tossing a ping pong ball in a jar at a carnival. And I miss pulling the lever, not buttons. Now they're too much like video games.
I waited until she moved over to sat down at the next machine. I knew better than believing the machine she left was overdue and that the odds favored me now that it's been uncharitable for so long. On a hunch or maybe delusion, I decided to contribute twenty-five bucks in the machine. Before I even put my wallet away, the wheels spun and the machine seemed to explode. I had hit the jackpot for a twenty grand payback!
Of course, it attracted a lot of attention. I was surrounded by well-wishers and congratulations. Winning gave me an odd sensation. I had never won that much money before. I was determined to enjoy it and decided to put my winnings to work. It wasn't my money, after all. It was the house's money. I loaded up on the higher denomination chips and visited tables with higher limits.
I won a bunch of hands at the blackjack table. The chips were piling up. I was getting more attention than I wanted and left for the roulette table. The stakes were higher and I put my blackjack money on red, won, let it ride, and won again. The casino security men were paying attention as was a very fine lady dressed like Princess Grace. She looked like her too.
I tried black. It didn't deliver. Then I played brown chips on red again. It paid. The Princess crept closer. Remembering my caution to a lady who won big on thirty-six several months earlier, I threw caution to the wind and put a stack of chips on thirty-six. It worked for her and it really wasn't my money anyway. This bet had only slightly better odds than playing the lottery but it was just one of those days. The croupier announced, "Thirty-six red."
I felt uncomfortable with people staring at me and went to play craps. Several elegantly dressed women were at the table. The Princess was one of them. I watched the action for a while, then placed a pass line bet. I lost and tried again. The second time was a winner and several more over the next hour. In all, I figured I now was up over a quarter million, maybe more. It was time to cash in. But first, I took a detour to the bar where the Princess was sitting with a younger woman who didn't look more than eighteen or nineteen.
She said, "Hi. You did well at the wheel." I smiled and nodded. Her breathy voice was as soft and delicate as an early winter snow shower. My throat felt a little thick and I ordered a martini. "What about you?" I asked offering to buy her a drink.
"I don't drink. It's not good for your health," as the smoke from her cigarette curled above her head.
It was when she turned to me to introduce herself that I noticed the rock hanging around her neck. The pendant was a three-karat teardrop tanzanite surrounded by diamonds. I had written a paper on tanzanite as a geology student so I knew it was worth more than my year's pay.
"My name is Victoria. This is my daughter Abigail. We like to be called Vicky and Gail," she said with a hint of a Southern accent.
"Hello, Vicky and Gail. I'm Larry."
"What do you do for a living, Larry, other than robbing the casino?" Vicky asked.