What a low-down, sneaky, sly move!
He clearly knew the game rules, yet he played dumb to trick her!
Eleanor silently prayed to the gods: Let him draw a 10 on the fourth card; let him go bust!
After asking the other three players if they wanted more cards, Fiman glared at Bernard and said, "What's the rush? Wait for the next round."
Fiman asked the other players one by one and added a third card for them and himself before finally dealing the fourth card to Bernard.
Bernard, with one arm around Eleanor's waist, leaned down and gently kissed her cheek in front of everyone: "Darling, you flip the card."
Upon seeing this, Fiman got so mad he tossed his cigarette away. "How much money do you want? I'll give it to you straight. Just take your wife and go home."
The other three players couldn't stand it either, banging on the table in protest: "We'll give you all our chips; just go home; stop bullying people here!"
Bernard, holding his blushing wife, smiled provocatively at them: "You'll have to put up with it because you guys don't have wives."
Fiman: ...
Three players:
They understood that this guy didn't come to play; he came to show off his wife! Fiman clenched his fists, cracking his knuckles.
"Guys, I want to punch him!"
"We've been wanting to do that too!"
"That's why you guys are single; you’re too rude." Bernard chuckled.
"Can we punch him now?"
"Once we're done at the table, you can punch him however you want."
Bernard didn’t take the 'peaceful' exchange between the young men seriously.
He thought these men without wives could only vent their frustration with words.
And Eleanor, the object of showoffs, kept her head buried low, holding her face with both hands.
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