Everyone glanced around. The refined looking girl sitting to Allison’s left explained, “In this game we’re playing, this deck has a pair of Ace of Hearts among its 40 cards. If you draw one, you have to kiss the other person who drew the other Ace of Hearts for two minutes.”

Allison was dumbfounded. A two–minute kiss?

She glanced at Nathalie, whose grin let her know that Nathalie must have known all along that the card was the Ace of Hearts. As a friend of Penelope, Nathalie clearly set

up this trap for Allison

Allison responded, “I didn’t know the rules, and I don’t want to play your game.”

Nathalie’s eyes widened “Hey, Allison, you’re not thinking of backing out, are you? No problem, you can just take a drink instead,” she said, clapping her hands.

Then another of Penelope’s friends, Sabina, came over with two bottles of wine. “Just finish these two bottles.”

There was no way a girl could finish two bottles of wine. It was an insane challenge..

drink? Allison, you’re just a maid. We’re all rich and powerful, we don’t mind taking a hit, but you, a

just didn’t like this

said, “Yeah, Allison, you won’t

the ones at a disadvantage: Who would want to kiss a maid? It’s

at all, actually,” a rich young man said, flipping over his card to reveal

after another, people revealed their cards. Kamilla did

“This isn’t fair.”

that’s not quite right. Allison drew the

put their cards on the

increasingly curious about who had the other Ace of Hearts.

their cards. Nathalie turned to Terry and asked,

hand, wanting to build suspense. “Take

not you, is it? Then you’d have to kiss Allison for two

Laughter erupted.

grinning and glancing at Allison. He, too, was disappointed. Why couldn’t it

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