Rolling 75

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>La Lune Noire has a pulse. It rules apart from its owners.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Backroom deals and electro swing. Extravagant parties and bootlegger tunnels.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The walls have secrets. The doors have codes.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ashes and lies. White oak and screams. Champagne and delusions.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hope is the gateway to hell.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ryker</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The house always wins.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unless it's concerning Mercy Phillips.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My brothers and I own La Lune Noire a resort and casino that caters to the criminal underworld.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To them we're kings.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To her I'm the friend she left behind.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Some say absence makes the heart grow fonder. For me it bred obsession.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Three years searching.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One offer she can't refuse.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Countless rolls of possibilities.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cognac. Contracts. Coming home.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And someone lurking in the shadows playing us all.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the house will win again. She's always been mine.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mercy</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's not even my name anymore. Much less who I am.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Other than my precious baby boy only shards remain of that girl.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Scars from a monster.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until Ryker Noire-my best friend and a reminder of the worst night of my life-breezes into town with a tempting proposition.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Three years running.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One haunting phone call.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Countless reasons to stay away.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the choice isn't mine. What a Noire wants a Noire gets.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No matter the battle hope is the last thing to die.</span></p><p></p><p></p>