Chapter 1: The contract
The year is 2733 AD. Quantum technology research has come a long way with many breakthroughs in quantum teleportation and quantum entanglement. However, mankind has yet to achieve true teleportation but through use of a pair of specialised markers, copy can be made and linked through quantum entanglement. A blue marker and a red marker. Blue marker will create an invisible portal on what to copy. Original object will remain unchanged. Red marker will create a portal on where the copied object will protrude from. For example, if a circle is drawn on a ball with a blue marker then a red marker draws a circle on the table top. Half of the ball will appear on the table top while the original ball remains fully intact. If this is used on humans the subject's body remains unchanged but the nerve endings of the copied body part will be linked to the subject via quantum entanglement.
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Olivia is a beautiful 28 year-old white blonde. She is 5'11" with a perfect pair of 36C and perky tits. She has been married to Josh for 5 years. Josh is a hard working miner and a family man. His work requires him to be away 1-2 months at a time depending on the duty. The couple loves the lifestyle that they have because it gives them some alone time while they are apart.
It is the time where Josh needs to leave to catch his flight to the mining site. Olivia gives Josh a hug and kisses him on the lip before hopping on the taxi heading to the airport. Usually while Josh is away Olivia would browse the Internet for ideas to start her business. However, while she was browsing today, an advertisement for an online casino popped up. Normally she would not be interested in this kind of thing. Olivia is highly educated and knows all the psychological tricks casino uses. She thinks there's no way she will be addicted to online gambling. She's too smart for that.
She clicked on the link to sign up and put 100 USD worth of credit on the family's credit card. The casino gives her another 100 USD credit as a first sign-in bonus. Her first game of choice was blackjack. Because she knows blackjack is the game where the house has the last advantage against the player.
First day Olivia played for a few hours and she's up by 500 USD.
Next day she played for 6 hours and she was up by 2,000 USD.
The day after she played 10 hours straight and ended up with 8,000 USD.
"This is so easy. If I could make this a career Josh might be able to quit his miner job" Olivia thought to herself. She continues to play the whole week ignoring her business research. At the end of the week her winning is down to 5,000 USD. She wins some and loses some. Her demeanor slowly changes as her brain is getting used to the amount of dopamine bombardment. The winning of 20-30 USD per hand no longer provides her with satisfaction.
She gradually increased her betting size per hand. From 30 to 50. From 50 to 100. From 100 to 300. By the end of week 2 her minimum betting is at 500 USD. This week she faced a devastating losing streak combined with heavy betting. She is down by 3,000 USD which she puts on the family's credit card.
Olivia thinks she needs to stop and cut her losses and confess everything to Josh. But she is afraid Josh might get angry at her for using the joint credit card which is only for emergencies. Then she thinks it's only 1 more bet to even out her losses. All she needs to do is place 3,000 USD bet on red at the roulette table. If she wins then she will quit and Josh won't find out.
She begins her plan to even out. She proceeds to add 3,000 USD credit to the casino website. She clicked on one of the roulette tables. She clicked on red then All-in. The dealer spins the roulette then throws the ball on the wheel. Her heart races as the wheel slows down then the bounces. It's as if time stopped. The ball landed on red.
Olivia jumps off of her chair. She jumped so high with adrenaline that her head almost hit the ceiling. Her hands are trembling with excitement. She has never won such a big hand so easily before. After the excitement died down she turned off her computer.
"I would withdraw the winning tomorrow" she thought to herself.
Next morning arrives. Oliver turned on her computer with the intent to withdraw yesterday's winning. As she's about to click on the withdraw button, a thought flashes into her mind.
"What if I do the same thing as yesterday? Put all 6,000 on red. If I win, I can play off of the winning and put the other half into the credit card."
Her intrusive thoughts won. Olivia proceeds to access the roulette table again. She even made sure it's the same table she played yesterday for good luck. She did the same ritual as yesterday, if she could click on the same pixel she would.
"6K, RED. Let's GOOOO!" She stood up hyping herself up.
The dealer spins the wheel, the ball drops and bounces until the ball comes to a rest in a pocket.
"18 black" the dealer announces the winning number.
Olivia's emotion goes from highest of high to lowest of low. Her knees dropped to the floor. She was distraught and so pissed off at herself. If only she had withdrawn her winning it would have been over with. Now she's even deeper into the hole.
She calculated that if she doubled down she could afford to lose 3 more times before the credit card max out. All she needs is 1 win then she'll break even. After she made up her mind to double down, she logs back into the casino. She adds the remaining of her credit into the website.
1st roll: 12K on black.
2nd roll: 24k on black.
3rd roll: 48k on black.
Olivia's luck ran out. She was betting against a red run. Now that her hopes of resetting back her life vanishes right before her eyes. Josh will be coming home next week. There's no way she could come up with this amount of money in time before Josh arrives. She tries to come up with ideas to generate money. The only way she can come up with is getting a loan from a loan shark.She managed to find a loan shark not too far from her.
She quickly put on t-shirt and jeans then hopped into her car and headed there right away even though it was quite late at night. The loan shark is located in the worst part of her city. As Olivia drives closer to the loan shark's location she can see many run down houses that look like drug houses. The lawn has obviously never been taken care of. She observed an adult bookstore. There is barely any working street light, some of the lights are flickering. Occasionally she would see a half naked woman standing on the side of the street. Nervousness slowly creeps behind her neck. All her senses and intuition are telling her to head back but she needs to push on. She needed money.
As she arrives at the house with a red stair as instructed. It is the best looking house in this run down neighbourhood but still not something a normal person would choose to live in. Opposite of the house is a brothel with bright red lights in the front. The sidewalk is full of men with shady characters grouped up and smoking.
She parked her in front of the house and proceeded to knock on the front door. After a short while a 6'5" black man cracks the door open just enough for him to look out the door.
"Who are you?" The man asked
"I'm Olivia. We talked on the phone earlier. I'm here for a loan," Olivia replied.
The man opens the door and lets her in.
"First door to the right," the man instructed her.
Olivia walks down the hallway and looks into the room. The door is already open. She sees a man with a thick black beard wearing a bright blue shirt sitting behind a wooden desk.
"Please take a seat, Olivia" the man invited her in.
Olivia sits herself down on a chair opposite of the desk.
"I'm Rahman, the one who spoke to you on the phone," the man introduces himself.
"So, you're here for a 50k loan, right?" Rahman asks
"Yes." Olivia confirms the amount
"Normally we will need something as a collateral asset. Did you bring any assets with you?"
"None, I don't have any assets in my name at all," Olivia responded in shame.
"Hmmm. This is too bad," Rahman pushes his chair back and stands up.
"Can you stand up for a moment," he instructed her
Olivia complied with the command she was given. He looks at her body from head to toe and pauses to think for a minute.