The Venus Trap - COMPLETED (The 1st Installment of The Derek Welsh Trilogy)

Chapter 19

Saturday, 7th

The blast of music on the dance floor was thumping rhythmically against Rita's ears. She was back in Shockwave again tonight with Derek. As promised, Jessie was also there, ready to point them to the right direction, of the person named Oggy, the pimp. Ryan had let them in with that look on his face as if he was too involved in the secret mission they were conducting.

Soon, Rita spotted Jessie in the bar. Rita had a very important role tonight. To look the part, she had donned a special outfit tonight. It was a combination of deep purple velvet corset with laces details and a pair of very short black faux leather hot-pants. To accentuate the look, she wore her long black velvet boots with stiletto heels. She looked super-hot and could feel the eyes of many men looking at her hungrily. Jessie signed them to follow her. Derek and Rita walked behind her.

Jessie led them through the crowd at the dance floor. It was so dense with people. The colorful lights were blinding, swaying around the dance floor following the rhythm of the loud music. It was all so inviting. It was hard not to start dancing to the beat. Jessie picked a plush sofa with small round table in the middle of the lounge so she and Rita could pretend to be on stand-by, the prostitutes' term for looking for a date.

Derek moved away by himself to get a better vantage point from the other side of the lounge. He stood there watching Jessie and Rita. The plan was Jessie would introduce Rita to Oggy as 'a new girl' who wanted to work in Shockwave, because her own pimp rejected Rita. If the plan worked, they hope to learn how Oggy operated in Shockwave and hopefully, it would lead to them to Lindsay's disappearance.

Derek was watching the scene around him. He was sipping his ginger ale slowly, occasionally greeting some of the familiar faces around him, women of course, who were also frequent visitors in Shockwave. As usual, they swarmed him like bees. Some of these women were slightly on the older age, in their late forties or early fifties. Most of them were heavily perfumed and looked absolutely rich. Some of them were dressed in provocatively expensive outfits, but some were dressed more elegantly befitting their age and looking more sophisticated.

Derek talked to some of them to kill time, sometimes in order to build network with this layer of society. He politely fending off any further invitation to a more intimate meetings with any of them (at some point they all asked him if he was up for a "fun" night on The Sub or outside Shockwave), while Jessie was busy eyeing out when Oggy would appear.

As the night grew, Rita looked as Jessie tapped her thigh lightly. Jessie nudged at the direction on their right. A big, tall, muscled man with a long curly blonde hair was walking into the lounge.

"That big blonde dude. My 2 o'clock." Jessie spoke into Rita's ears to beat out the loud music. "That's Oggy's right hand man. Buffalo."

Rita nodded. Jessie stood up from her plush sofa.

"I'm going to say hi and have a talk, we should get you to meet Oggy in person," she said.

Jessie walked towards the big guy named Buffalo and Rita watched as they exchange greetings and had conversation. Jessie looked at her direction while pointing, as she was saying something to Buffalo. Rita saw that the man nodded a few times and Jessie signaled Rita to come to her. Rita walked towards them and Derek also moved from his spot. He followed Rita from behind, keeping a safe distance so that they didn't suspect Rita.

"You wanna meet Oggy?" Buffalo shouted at Rita.

"Yes!" Rita answered him.

"You're new huh? Never seen you before," Buffalo said again, hungrily eyeing Rita from head to toe.

"Brand new," Rita added and winked at him.