Chapter 996

Marion’s men rounded up all the customers from the back rooms and brought them forward.

“Take them to the police station. Have Mr. Hardy interrogate them thoroughly,” Marion ordered.

“Yes, sir.”

Watching batch after batch of customers being led away, Marion turned his attention to the staff pinned to the ground. “Are you going to talk, or do I need to make you?”

“I’ll talk,” one of them blurted out, lifting his head. “Sir, some of us dockworkers just wanted to make extra money. Someone said businessmen were investing in arcade centers. All we had to do was pay a franchise fee, and we could run our own business. The setup and machines were all taken care of. But there was a rule. Only locals with connections could join.”

Marion’s eyes narrowed. “Connections? You mean my people?”

Osborne family, the Mathis family, and even the Frazier family. Any of

spine. This was designed to smear their names. If the mastermind couldn’t take them down directly, they’d start from the bottom, using their people to make money and then forcing them to clean up the mess. It was

you run

The machines were rigged to control how much we made. Inspectors

“What’s your monthly turnover?”

is small, so we make around 100

This small shop alone was raking in millions. Larger

just this deck of cards. How much do

here, even with smaller bets, the variety of games and

you give them half or a third of your

+25 BONUS

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