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18. Crown Aces
"Arghhh..." Gray Stewart groaned as she sat up from an unfamiliar bed. A bed would be a stretch as it looked more like a backless stainless steel bench not even long enough to hold her six foot long body.
She rested both elbows on her open thighs and dropped her head on her palms. "What the hell happened?" She strongly brushed up her hair as the intense pain in the head came knocking in.
She looked around the room. It was closed with no windows and two doors. The bench she had slept in was placed nearly at the center of the room. Both sides of the walls had large glass wine cellar cabinets and a door on each edge. Behind her were racks with stored cardboard boxes, and wall hanging cupboards.
She heard clinking noises from the door on the left. She finally rose and headed towards the door. As she peeked past the d
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