“One of the few places where I never feel they do anymore,” he admitted, undoing his tie and pulling it off with a slithering sound and tossing it onto a table. “But people pay the price for it, so why shouldn’t they have it all?”

Of course, that was said by the man that wasn’t paying a dime for it, even if he had worked hard for that privilege. Both in building his reputation and while in Dubai itself.

“At least three,” he repeated, a questioning lilt on the end. “Is there a reason for that many times? Something planned for each,” he asked, hanging his jacket on the back of a chair.