Chapter 9.

The Cabaret Girls .

After passing through that door, Glades reproached Emily for killing Daniela, but in her defense Emily said that it was the best thing they could do, because when the anesthesia wore off, the pain of losing her eyes would kill her and delay her path.

Glades insisted that it had been too inhumane, but Emily told him: if it were you, you would also want to die in her place, besides, we don't know how long she has been anesthetized in that place, so I just helped her finish dying .

Chester, for his part, had had to go to the police station, since they had found his DNA on the remains of a man of around sixty-five years old who had been brutally murdered days before, the moment Chester entered with his well-worked, burly body, in which his muscles and strong arms were marked, with that well-defined jaw and his upturned nose with that air of Alpha male pride, made everyone around him feel inhibited, due to the aura of his presence, making women and men involuntarily give him the pass easily and quickly; and when they went to take his statement, the officer, a bald, fat and short black man, began to ask him where he had been the previous nights and if anyone could back up that information; if he knew the victim, etc., so Chester said with complete naturalness: a month ago I had eye surgery in Torrien, for which I have been in the farm that I have northwest of Tarzas all this time recovering, you can corroborate the information by contacting the clinic Ojos de la Noche and they will tell you that everything I have said is true, in addition, you can see the security cameras around my farm and you will see that I only went out a couple of days ago to buy some medicines that I was beginning to lack from the postoperative treatment… And I only think I have seen the man once in my life, perhaps it was that I gave him a ride to some parish or he asked me for a tip or alms, I really don't remember, but you can't deduce that I murdered a person just to find my fingerprints on his hands… if you think about how many people I haven't touched before…

So the officer said to him: make yourself comfortable Mr. Valt while we check that what you have told us, It is absolutely true, until then he remains the main suspect.

With that, the officer left and Chester simply closed his eyes and concentrated on the silence that surrounded him in that place, relaxing his body much more than he already was; and waiting for time to pass quickly; after about 2 and a half hours the same officer came in, removed his handcuffs and said: you may leave Mr. Valt, we have verified that everything you have said has been true, I am sorry for the inconvenience caused and I hope you have a good day.

So Chester told her: it is always a pleasure to help justice do its job, happy official day…

Hours later, Emily and Glades were behind a completely red curtain waiting to find out what the next target they had to cross would be…

Suddenly, Chester's voice was heard over the speakers telling them: my loves, today I feel happy, so you will also be happy, so you must find the only woman who is disguised as a man as soon as the curtain rises, but you must be careful because men here also disguise themselves as women and they do it perfectly….

Having heard that, both sighed, letting a breath out of their lungs, perhaps they were expecting something much more risky from him and seeing him do something so common made them doubt…

However, without questioning his methods, they saw how little by little the curtain began to rise, thus revealing a cabaret. Glades ran out leaving Emily behind and told the first person she saw everything that was happening asking him to call the authorities to set them free, but the man she approached looked at her sideways and said: as if these things happen nowadays... What time do you live in, lunatic?... your place is in a psychiatric hospital.

Seeing that the man was walking away, she went to where one of the waitresses was asking for a phone to borrow, but that waitress said: why don't you relax and enjoy the atmosphere? It seems that you have been tense, here I leave you a beer so you can relax... It's on the house.

While Emily did exactly what Chester had told her, only the more she walked through that place, the more she realized that purple smoke was coming out of the ventilation ducts, which made her vision blurry, apart from the fact that men and women constantly approached her offering her a beer saying that it was on the house.

At first he rejected them, but then After taking a few more steps they insisted again and she, so as not to offend anyone, accepted the beer, only she didn't drink it, but sat down near a plant and pretended to drink it, while she really threw it into that flowerpot... No matter how hard she tried, everything was as he had said, the woman they had to find made sure that she was not recognizable in broad daylight, because no matter how much she walked and met women and men, she couldn't tell exactly which man didn't have balls hanging from his crotch.

For her part, Glades had abused the beers that the waitresses offered her and she didn't differentiate what she was doing, so she danced to the music, laughed with the people around her and forgot that they were really there to look for someone and not to have fun, in fact, she hadn't seen Emily for a while, thinking that she was probably having fun too. Chester Valt, from a corner of that cabaret, saw how close the two women were, but how far they were mentally, which made him smile, because he had already found with his eyes exactly the woman who was dressed as a man, but he liked to see the performance that each of the girls had... when trying to move forward, he saw Emily's determination and thought that maybe he had misjudged her because she was blonde, it didn't mean she was stupid.

Then, he saw the mess that Glades had set up when he went up on stage with some waitresses who insisted on taking off her clothes and she was letting them, then he smiled when he realized, since the purple smoke only affected those who were under the light, but those who were in the darkness of the corners could see everything clearly, there was the trick, but neither of them had discovered it yet.

After finishing his drink, Chester left the room and went to the upper floors to see how the other guests had been doing...