Chapter 927


    Chapter 927 If Olivia had not stepped in that night, the incident would have taken an unimaginable turn.


    Keegan clutched the document in his hand.


    "Does Marshall know about this?" He asked after a long time.


    "Mr. Moore went to the hotel and called the police that night.


    He may have been unaware.


    And, Mir. Saun withdrew from thewsuit to protect his reputation since it was Ms. Saun in the hotel


    room at that time," Aldor replied.


    ‘Unaware, huh?'' Keegan thought.


    After a long time, he put the file on the table and said in a deep voice, “Assist the police in finding the


    two underground casinos in Eastville.


    The holidays areing.


    We should help them with their search." Aldor understood what Keegan meant.


    Yoven owned the two underground casinos in Eastville.


    The gamblers range from high- ranking officials and dignitaries down to peddlers and traffickers.


    There were all kinds of people in the gambling ring.


    A few of themmit suicide every year because of their loss.


    It was a social cancer.


    Everyone in the business industry knew who the casino''s owner was, but the location would constantly


    change.


    Only those who got invited by a member of the casino could join the club.


    They would have to go through a series of trials to confirm their identity before they were allowed to


    enter.


    Since the gamblers were the ones to bring people in, none of them were willing to expose anything


    about the casino.


    Those who did not indulge in such activities but knew of the matter kept quiet because they did not


    want to get in trouble.


    The casinos would not have been in operation for so many years, and Yoven would not have been able


    tounder so much money without the help of insiders.


    One of Keegan''s college ssmatesmitted suicide by jumping off a buildingst year because of


    his addiction.


    He was a manager of an investment bank with an annual ie of tens and millions of dors, and he


    was the best among his peers.


    But, even so, he got addicted to gambling and started cking off at work.


    The Human Resource team in hispany tried to talk him out of it several times, but none of their


    advice worked.


    So, they fired him.


    He then started going to the casino day and night.


    At the beginning ofst year, he desperately went to Keegan and asked Keegan to lend him some


    money.


    He told him that one of his family members had gotten a chronic disease and needed the money to pay


    their medical expenses since he had lost all his money in the stock market.


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    Keegan lent him two million dors without any hesitation.


    The manager returned the same month and told him that the money was insufficient to cover the bills.


    Keegan thought that it was a little strange and asked Aldor to investigate it.


    They found out that the once golden boy had be addicted to gambling.


    He lost all his fortune, and his wife and children left him.


    Yet, he did not repent.


    Keegan then realized that he had used the money he lent him to satisfy his gambling needs.


    Not only did Keegan stop lending him money, but he also reported the incident to the police.


    Gambling was a bottomless pit.


    Keegan knew that no matter how much money he lend his old ssmate, he would never get it back as


    long as he kept gambling.


    After one month of being detained in prison, the bank manager was released.


    Keegan wrote a letter of rmendation for him and helped him get a job.


    However, he stole his client''s money and disappeared in just two months.


    Thepany called the police, and they put out a BOLO for him.


    Two weekster, they found his body on the west side of a building.


    The cause of death was a fall from height.


    On the roof of the building was a suicide note which entailed how much debt he was in, how he was


    unable to pay for them, and how ashamed he was of himself.


    Keegan attended his old college ssmate''s funeral and witnessed the tragedy that befell.


    His head waspletely cracked open, and it was a ghastly sight.


    His 60-year-old father''s hair turned gray overnight, and his infant child was still waiting to be fed.


    Many of his friends did not show up after knowing that he had jumped to his death due to gambling


    debt.


    It was a depressing scene.


    The man''s father pulled Keegan aside and gave him some of his son''s remaining valuables, promising


    to help his son pay off his debt.


    Aldor had attended the funeral with Keegan.


    Keegan''s expression was extremely gloomy when they came back from the funeral home.


    He told Aldor that his ssmate was particrly frugal when they were still in school.


    He meticulously wrote down every amount of money he spent.


    And, whenever he exceeded the budget for one of his meals, he would only eat oatmeal for his next


    meal.


    He would then use the remaining money from his allowance to buy study materials.


    “How could someone like him be addicted to gambling?" Keegan asked.


    Gambling addictions were simr to drug addictions; joined the wrong group of people, and they would


    peer pressure you bit by bit until you were done.


    Keegan could not control his emotions.


    The valuables in his hand felt heavier by the minute.


    He had taken gambling addictions lightly and set his expectations high on the willpower of men.