Except one. The one I've been sent to.The lights on the ground floor are all off, and the only light is a faint glow from an upstairs room. I assume i...t's a bedroom, and the glow is an ultraviolet blue, as though someone's using a sunbed. When I reach the front door, just as I reach for the bell, I notice that the door is slightly ajar.I walk in, and lying on the hall floor is a polaroid photograph. This time it's a long shot, of a latex clad body lying on a bed, legs spread and with a spreader. Put a couple of bottles of champagne on your tab and let's take these two into one of the private rooms and see if we can't blow their socks off.”The six of us carried our empty champagne glasses into a room which was furnished with an enormous bed, big enough for at least three couples, a few chairs and small tables. Vladimir brought a large ice-bucket with two bottles of Bolinger champagne and put it on one of the tables and refreshed everyone's glass.Valerie, who came across as the pushy one. “Detective?!” I thought aloud. “Shit, this is more serious than I thought,” I said to myself.Hideki didn’t appear concerned in the least.When we got to the police station, we were ushered into a private room with the officer and all our personal information was taken by the officer. Once he completed all our paperwork, he said, “Detective Chang will be with you shortly,” and he left the room.“Hideki, I’m scared,” I whispered nervously fearing that we would be locked up indefinitely.“Don’t. It was that beautiful.Gazing out over the calm waters, I saw four scuba men briefly emerge about thirty meters off shore. They flashed me brief hand signals, asking if I were finished with my swim. I signaled affirmative and good night, and then we saluted each other before they returned to their military speedboat a few hundred meters out.Wonderfully efficient, I thought. It struck me as odd when I first realized that none of the Ruling Royalty I knew bother to learn the guard's sign language,.
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