Morning at the service entrance to the Tan junket office inside the Sapphire Suite. Cold blue-grey walls, black glass, hard overhead light.

Security checkpoint outside the junket office. Scanner panel, badge reader, glass doors.

Inside the Tan junket office: glass partitions, printers, stamp pads, locked drawers, clerks behind counters.

Mak Mei-Lin's glass audit office, shadowed and precise, lined with locked document cabinets.

Inside Mak's office. Glass wall behind Hayun, desk between the women.

Mak's desk as Hayun opens the dossier and begins the evidence sequence.

The evidence expands across Mak's desk: camera logs, corridor map, maintenance overwrite notice.

Witness-statement documents and thumbprint comparisons on Mak's desk.

Personnel files and old dealer records related to prior marked dealers.

Comp-card records and creditor ledger extracts are added to the evidence spread.

Mak reads the dossier in silence while Hayun stands across from her desk.

Mak finishes reading and asks her first substantive question.

Mak identifies the financial significance of the camera overwrite.

Mak initiates an audit lock from her office.

Across the casino, outside Liang's floor-manager office. Door scanner, tablet, cold corridor light.

Liang's corridor and a security terminal listing active floor managers.

Mak's audit monitor displays Hayun's marker account moving between creditor channels.

Mak closes the audit console. Hayun understands the debt has changed hands.

Mak presents a written contract instead of a clearance notice.

Hayun reads the terms: Monday hosted-room work for one year, no comp, no private betting.

Mak lists what she will protect in exchange for Hayun's year of Mondays.

Hayun processes the offer and what Monday nights mean for her sobriety.

The contract waits for Hayun's signature. Mak offers no comfort.

Hayun reaches for the pen. The chapter ends before the signature is made.