to the gambling area.

The gambling area was closest to his office, so they might as well go by there before they went into the club area. Meanwhile, there was already something going on here as well. Again he discovered a lot of the upper ten thousand in this area, there were also " ordinary people", but no one was bothered by it, rather it seemed to him as if it did not matter here who came from which stratum of society. He walked through the hall together with Velvet, looking around to see if he saw some people of interest to him. That's when it almost hit him when he saw Sophie and Penny House, who were just trying their luck at one of the tables. He also brings the two to Velvet's attention, who contorted her face, angrily, for a brief moment.

"What are they doing here? That's brazen, they know Phillip snuck me in here."

"Oh, so they know about the business too? Well then, you'll officially stay my secretary until we get Phillip out of the way, maybe we can have some fun." he replied mischievously.

He could see that Velvet didn't quite agree with that, but on the other hand she knew that Carl was resourceful on the one hand and let her have her fun too.

He grabbed one of his security detail and instructed them to keep an eye on the two of them and keep him posted on where they would be, then continued walking through the store for now. On the way he ran into Lara Price again, but today she was accompanied by Nele Rain, the city's new police chief.

"Ah, good evening, Mr. Taylor, how are you?" Lara addressed him.

"Thank you, I am excellent, I hope you are too? Is everything to your satisfaction?"

"Yes, thank you, I'm fine too. May I introduce you to the new police chief, Mrs. Nele Rain" Lara answered and Nele shook his hand.

Something struck him as strange, but he couldn't put his finger on it. But he got inside Lara's head to be on the safe side. And he found the answers. Nele was set on him by Boris, and Nele persuaded Lara to go against Carl as well. He also learned that Penny and Sophie had come with them as well. He just wondered why he didn't already know that, it was probably related to the fact that it was all controlled by Boris and not directly by Phillip, who knew he was working against him. Carl probably had to specify the input in that case. On the other hand, where is the fun then, after all he was omnipotent and could adjust everything, his wishes, accordingly.

"You see this here first, or am I mistaken?" He asks Nele.

"Well, at least in this area. The club area I have visited several times, and it was always a good mood." She answers with a put on smile.

"Well, now, if you'll excuse me, sometimes even I have to party." He said, putting on his best smile.