After a few simple calculations, Lara had gathered a considerable amount of money with the help of Zeke and Trent.

That amount could have been collected in any other way, but everything that entered JACKPOT stayed in JACKPOT. Lara needed to raise the money as quickly as possible because of her younger brother. He had been in a terrible car accident. While crossing the street, a speeding car had hit him violently. For three months, her brother had been kept in a coma, as his surgery was both risky and extremely expensive. To save him, Lara needed to raise one hundred thousand euros.

After the director of JACKPOT got to know Lara better, he decided to take her under his wing to make her a player who would bring money to the house instead of taking it away. As a reward, Lara was allowed to collect the amount she needed in order to try and save her brother. But everything had to remain a secret. It wasn’t as if Zeke and Trent would have approved of it.

Maybe it wasn’t fair to them, but it wasn’t as if Lara felt any regret. Most of the people who ended up here could barely be called human anymore. Perhaps this place was built to exploit those who gambled away their fortunes trying to multiply them, people willing to use that part of the contract that allowed them to sell themselves, just to have one more chance to reclaim what they had lost.

JACKPOT didn’t bring out the worst in people, it simply allowed them to be who they truly were.