Straying to the roulette table I saw a man with a long black coat advanced towards me. We both sat down to play, seemingly a ruthless game.

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Win! That’s the last thing I did. It was amazing! At the age of 24 I had the best run of anyone. It was Sunday 1st of January, it started with a crossword. Going through the questions; one had stomped me, the question was “” 6 letters down and I was clueless. Then scavenging for words “danger” was the one that stood out the most, I looked at it strangely. Wildly, the door bell rang. The few seconds that I was walking towards the door I wondered who could be here at this time, 5:00am on this frosty winter’s morning. Adrenalin rushed through my body. Slowly the door creaked open like one of those murder movie. Peering out of the door I saw with my first glance a man about the same age and size as me, then looking properly I gazed again no one was there. The giant of a door shut, turning I saw that a letter sluggish glided down towards the floor.

The letter, it had nothing on it just at the back a wax, red, black eagle crescent holding the letter closed. Irresolute looking, my hand slowly shaking quavering went to open the letter excited and feeling miss lead by the figure at the door. My hands where on it, opening it when I was interrupted by the phone computer and mobile ringing at the same time. Picking up the phone no one was on the other end. The computer had an email “you are invited to an annual opening of the Royal Casino.” “You will be escorted there by your personal butler.” It didn’t hit me until I got over the email that, the shady figure at the door might be my butler. There was a 3 second pause in the house I thought “why was I invited to this casino if I was a nobody?” Feeling dizzy, I when to the kitchen to get a drink of water, filed ¾ of a wine glass when realising that the letter was still in my hand. As if I was drunk I opened the letter saying…

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The next day I woke up at about 5:31 a few seconds later the bell rang again. It was him. Looking at me with his deadly amber eyes it felt like he was peering through my very soul using some sort of supernatural powers. The butler asked me what my name was. My mouth was open for a few seconds thinking what to say before I said “Carlos.”

“Sorry I couldn’t properly introduce myself yesterday in the morning” “my name is Earl” the voice was an extremely posh English accent; he probably came from a long line of ...

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