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Ch.3 - Collateral

Scorpion.

That's the name of this casino bar that James knew, adapting the name of the hotel. From the bartender's explanation, James realized that this was no ordinary bar. Maybe the bartender was right, James had to be careful because he was new here after all. Since he entered, several pairs of eyes had been watching him, especially the workers dressed in black with earpieces in each of their ears.

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James didn't pay attention to Itt who was playing. His dull eyes were no longer focused, so he tried to sweep his gaze around the room. Until then Itt's frustrated scream made James almost fully awake from his drunkenness.

"Aaargh! B*stard! D*mn it! Aaargh!" Itt screamed loudly and hit the table with his hand. His face was very red and it was very obvious that he was frustrated.

"Itt, why? What's wrong? Did you lose?" asked James.

Itt acted like a crazy person. He hit his own face, then as if he was going to hit the worker on duty there but didn't.

"Aargh!"

One of the officers approached Itt.

"Keep your promise, sir," he said flatly with a scary expression. James shuddered hearing it.

"Itt, should we go home now? Quickly finish this, I have a bad feeling," James whispered to Itt.

James started to feel uneasy. Moreover, several officers approached him and stood pressing him to the side and behind him with their eyes unmoved by James.

Still with a frustrated face, Itt grabbed James' hand, grabbed his face and kissed his cheek.

"James, maybe we've only met for a few minutes, but you know, I already love you," Itt said while holding James' cheek.

James was confused. How could someone fall in love in just a matter of minutes?

"James, I will redeem you when I get 3 million Baht."

"Ha?" James gasped, he tried to digest Itt's sentence, maybe James had misunderstood and was still drunk. But James was sure he was completely conscious.

Itt removed his hand from James's grasp.

"I'm sorry, James," Itt said then left, leaving James with his innocent face that still didn't understand anything.

What actually happened?

Wait. What does it mean, Itt sold me? For 3 million? Holy shit!

But Itt said he would come back and make up for it. What does it mean that I'm being used as collateral for that man's gambling debts?

While digesting everything that happened and talking in his mind, the workers in black pressed his body and locked James' hands in theirs. James was closely guarded on the right, left and behind him.

D*mn it!

"Itt! You d*mn thing!" James shouted.

"Let me go! I don't know anything! D*mn it! Let me go, you b*stard! I don't know that man! I want to go home! Let me go! Let me go!"

"Shut up!" snapped the worker next to James, making James' guts shrink.

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James is now in a closed red room. James also saw scantily clad women as well as sexy men and ladyboys who were previously at the casino. They were guarded by four guards on the left near the door, while James sat on the floor alone on the right, with a man in black sitting on a chair facing him. What made James wonder, why was he the only one tied up?