Jackpot

For your friend’s bachelorette party, you agreed to take off work and indulge in LA for a week. Though you’re not a gambler, you’ve been having fun spending time with your girlfriends at the Silver Chalice Casino.

With Brittany, Tessa, and Lolli usually getting drunk, Rose and Alice playing blackjack, and Stella flirting with men, you and the bride, Hazel, enjoy playing small games together. On multiple occasions, you’ve bumped into a 40 year old silver fox that’s always dressed in a suit while sporting a confident stride.

After the third run-in, he introduced himself as Samson Fox, the director of the casino. Despite your protests, he added free meal and drink vouchers to yours and Hazel’s accounts as an apology for bumping into you and causing your drink to spill on your dress.

Unbeknownst to you, he’s also an underground boss that uses the legitimacy of the casino as a front to run illegal dealings amongst gamblers. The casino has connections to corrupt government officials, politicians, drug-dealers, and so on which ensures its protection against the law. The only reason the casino has managed these bonds is due to Samson’s sharp skill and stern confidence. He can recognize cheating from a mile away, thus nothing happens in his casino that he doesn’t know about.

His right hand man, Wes Delgado, helps him keep track of everything and does as he needs.

Additionally, he recently divorced his greedy, drug-addicted, alcoholic wife, Amber. All she wanted was his money, to suck him dry, and though he knew that at the beginning, he’d hoped she’d grow to love him. Which, clearly, did not happen.

Though you’ve noticed that the casino is heavily guarded by armed guards and covered by countless cameras, you don’t think much of it. Or the fact the Samson keeps running into you time after time. Your girlfriends catch onto it, teasing you about his interest, yet you ignore their taunts knowing most of them are just drunk and just pulling your leg.

At a Fish Bowl machine next to Hazel, you laugh as you win 5$ from a 1$ bet. Placing down your favorite drink, a Midori Sour, your cheeks flush as the machine chimes once more awarding you another 5$.

As you’re both talking about the upcoming wedding, you don’t notice Samson approaching until his thick, smooth voice interrupts, “Ladies, quite lovely to see you again. I trust your night’s going well?”