Milk Tea Part 5

Were we the hunters, or the hunted?
Thoughts tore into pieces from my brain, Leanne was the vixen who played the seductress all her life, she was the playgir

Were we the hunters, or the hunted?

Thoughts tore into pieces from my brain, Leanne was the vixen who played the seductress all her life, she was the playgirl of Black Venus, and it wasn't the cliche 'revenge from the ex.'

This sex goddess is like a segment of retrograde amnesia, so complicated and mysterious. No wonder Anton put me on the case, he would have no responsibility for failure.

'Chris, where was Leanne when she last call you?'
'Golden Hawk Cafe. Pandora, you can't investigate in this stage when Eric's after you. He has a chainsaw of army.'

'I was thinking of having Aiko setting up a GIS system and CCTV in the cafe. Everything is linked to the Cafe, Eric has a rivalry with it, Black Venus is in the same group with it and Hiroshi met her there, correct?'

Chris interrupted my soliloquy as he grabbed my hand over the Sharp GX22, 'You have no idea about Eric's power. He is a miniature mafia, with his death squad. Black Venus was a facade of his lust's conquest. He was the bloodsucker, and Hiroshi wanted him dead for so long. But, Black Venus was too popular to be eliminated..'

Muted silence - this is no suave case - it is a labyrinth of the siren, her charming prince in Gangster World, the mysterious cafe and her frightening ex-lover.

'Chris, we need a GIS installed in Golden Hawk, and Anton's minions.'

Chris immediately dialled Aiko's number, yelling his plead for a GIS system, whilst I call Anton. How could mafias ever share territories, and still proclaim to live in peace?

'Anton? Does Golden Hawk Cafe seem catchy?'
'Yes. The vixen's cemetery.'
'You know, being friendly is one of the most essential lubricants in social circumstances on the phone, mafia?' I teased him, are mafias ever so satisfied that emotions are ripped from their hearts?
'Get to the point, Pandora.'
'Can I lend your Causeway Kids for 3 days, tracking on the flow between Black Venus, Golden Hawk Cafe and Victoria Park?'
'Meet me in Dragon-I, PM.'

Chris made a gesture, implying Aiko was willing to install the GIS as he drove the Honda Odyssey into the universe of Dragon-I.

Welcome to Dragon-I, the haven of Causeway kids. Disco lights scattered across the atrium, with a blaze of haunting blue in the bar. It seemed a common party: the piles of margaritas and tequilas; drunken Causeway Kids and the team leaders with their troop of girls...

Then Anton stepped in, surrounded by his bodyguards, in his Emperor-esque Paul Smith shirt, restoring the order:

'Ok, this meeting is called by Pandora. As we have discussed before, it was concerning Leanne's murder. So far, there are rumours that the legendary rapist in Golden Hawk Cafe strikes again. He was known as the bloodsucker, since all of his victims seemed to die peacefully without a trace of blood. But they were all raped.'

'So that's why I need 20 of you to spy around the workers of Golden Hawk Cafe. Since Leanne loved Milk Tea, it has to be the staff that got so close to her. And, did a gangster war take place between the Taos and some others?' I asked.

'The Red Angels of Black Venus?' - A Causeway Kid replied.

'Aren't they in the same group?' Chris stepped in.

'You were too young,' the Causeway Kid replied, 'Red Angels was my dad's generation. They were the hottest girls in the club, and used to have barons to sponsor them like Geishas. Apparently, they became enemies with Golden Hawk Cafe because of a drug in the Milk Tea, and something with the bloodsucker. It wasn't until Eric came in, that sought a temporary liaison. Most of the Red Angels are all gone, except a famous Diana Sugabuchi and her friend Anne Ng.'

They were on Leanne's address book. Leanne, are seductresses all so complicated?

'So could you spy on the whereabouts of staff of Golden Hawk Cafe, and investigate a bit on Red Angels? I couldn't go to Black Venus without being a permanent prostitute. All men in there are the sluts of 21st century' I pleaded again.

'Deal.' Anton said, and whispered, 'but that is, if you promise me that you won't die on this case; got trapped in prostitution, or get into gang warfare.'

He stroked my dyed curls. Amazing - when did the cold, suave mafia of Causeway Bay had a sense of emotion?

'I think I am falling in love with you, Pandora' - a shower of kisses surged before Aiko rushed into Dragon-I, but Chris was heavily drunk with gross vodka.

And, it is not the cliche murder by the ex crime story.