The Acid Vanilla Series by Matthew Hattersley

Author:Matthew Hattersley [Hattersley, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boom Boom Press
Published: 2021-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Seven

Five hours and plenty of gory tales later, Acid and Vinh left the modest apartment and headed for the Kim Ma district. It was a fair walk, but Acid had decided she needed the air. Four strong coffees had left her with a pounding headache she needed to clear. She was, however, pleased she’d won the kill-off. Not that she’d had any doubts she wouldn’t. She hadn’t met a person yet who could beat her well-told tale of the neck scarf and the high-heeled shoe. Although Vinh’s tale of how he infiltrated a hostile’s base and single-handedly took out four enemy soldiers, armed only with a piece of his dead friend’s shin bone, was also impressive.

It was a few minutes after ten when they turned the corner and saw the lights of the Andromeda Club at the end of the road. It wasn’t a particularly big or impressive-looking establishment – all they could see of it from here was a wide entrance, above which a neon sign quietly buzzed. More remarkable to Acid was the size of the bouncer leaning against the wall and staring blankly out in front of him. He had a few more inches on her and Vinh, and double their girth put together.

“Let me do the talking,” Vinh whispered as they approached.

Acid rubbed at her bare arms, silently bemoaning the lack of a jacket as the hot day turned into a cool evening.

“No worries,” she whispered back. She had every intention of letting Vinh do the talking, since her Vietnamese was embarrassingly non-existent. Spitfire and Davros had tried to get her to learn languages in the early days, but she’d resisted. It felt too much like school. She spoke some French and Spanish but that was all. The way she saw it, the only language she’d ever needed was that of the assassin.

At the nightclub door the bouncer slowly turned his head to acknowledge them. His eyes were bulbous and bloodshot, and he had the kinds of lips that were eternally moist. He eyeballed Vinh then moved onto her, his gaze lingering on her breasts. Instinctively she made a fist, but held her tongue. They’d come unarmed and the plan was to keep a low profile, find out anything they could and then get out of there.

Vinh addressed the man with a friendly tone, laughing and pointing first at her and then back to himself. The bouncer grunted, screwing up his face like he'd smelt something rotten. He drew his eyes her way for a few more seconds, then with a sneer waved them through.

“What did you say to laughing-boy?” she asked as they hurried down a short, dark corridor leading to a set of double doors.

“Same as before. Told him you were a famous English actress,” Vinh replied. “Said you’d heard good things about the club and wanted to visit.”

“I’m not sure he bought it.”

“I just don’t think he was too bothered.”

“Clearly.”

They got to the end of the corridor and took a door handle each, yanking on them in unison.

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