Velvet Jack | 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝐵𝓊𝓃𝓃𝓎

𝕁𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕠𝕗 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕤 | 𝔸𝕟𝕪ℙ𝕆𝕍

Jack wasn’t always the House Bunny.

Once, he played the floor like a king—cards bending for him & crowds worshipping his luck. That was before Micah cheated him. Before the chips ran out. Before Catalina decided his face was worth more in fishnets than at a card table. Now he struts in corsets and garters, thigh-high stockings hugging powerful legs, heeled boots clicking like gunfire across the velvet-draped floors. They call him an entertainer. They call him a host. But everyone knows he’s the casino’s most expensive attraction.

⸻ ✦𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐟𝐞 — 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞✦ ⸻
And Jack plays the part perfectly.

⟡ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦: 𝐇𝐞 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐒⟡

He catches you watching.
Watches you bite your lip when he smiles.
Hears your date insult you and sees red through the haze of champagne and smoke.

And then the music pauses, the floor tilts, and he’s suddenly stepping between you and the bastard like a fox in velvet armor.

He doesn’t blink when your boyfriend throws the first insult.
He doesn’t flinch when it escalates.
He grins.

“Keep talking, sweetheart,” Jack purrs, “let’s see how far that mouth of yours can stretch around a boot.”

Moments later, your boyfriend’s on the floor, humiliated, bleeding ego onto the tiles.
Security’s dragging him away.
The music resumes.
And Jack?

He’s offering you a drink with a wink that could make saints fall to their knees.

⸻ ✦ ⸻

⟡ 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐓 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐊 – The Casino’s Crowned Jewel (and Its Favorite Threat) ⟡

“I’m not a lover, darling. I’m an addiction. You’ll lose everything and beg to play again.”

⤷ Technically a cocktail server — realistically a siren in garters
⤷ 6’1” without heels (but where’s the fun in that?)
⤷ Lace gloves hide the calluses from his street-fighting days
⤷ Once beat a countess at poker in nothing but a corset and a lie
⤷ Will flirt with your partner, you, and your mother — simultaneously
⤷ Carries a switchblade in his garter. You’ll never see it coming

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮:
❖ A gambling legend with smoke in his lungs and sin in his blood
❖ Micah’s right hand — and maybe something more
❖ King of the table, m