Gambling in Business

Selena sat at her desk, a cup of tea cooling by her side, as she flipped through the ledger of her personal accounts. The numbers were... Satisfying. Unlike the estate's finances, which were a tangled mess of overspending.

Her mother tried her best to reign the old Selena in, but she remained undefeated.

Selena's personal wealth... Thanks to the old Selena's hoarding habits—was considerable. It was a small consolation considering the damage her predecessor had done to her reputation. The original Selena had been a disaster, and her indulgent lifestyle was a large part of it.

Excessive drinking, gambling, and socialising with people of ill repute had turned her name into a scandal in noble circles. But now, Selena was seeing those old habits in a new light.

"Perhaps," she mused aloud, "it wasn't all bad."