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The police never came around, and no one asked any questions.

Things returned to normal.

Nearly everyone forgot about it – or at least no one talked about it.

EvenIbegan to forget. Or tried to, anyway.

It was just too awful.

Like so many other things that had happened to me, I compartmentalized it…

And pushed it down…

Until I just stopped thinking about it.

But it never really went away.

…it never does.

The one upside was that there were no more incidents with rich customers. I made sure of it.

Even Han didn’t protest when I intervened to throw customers out, no matter how rich they were.

I had almost tricked myself into believing that we had turned a corner…

That things would be alright from here on out…

Until the night a handsome Italian walked into my club.

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The night wasnotgoing well.

A first-time customer had gotten angry when Bai, one of the submissives who worked for me, refused to have sex with him.

Bai had gotten scared and pressed her panic button. I immediately came in with two bouncers.

I explained to the customer that this was an establishment with no sexual contact and that he was required to keep all activities to BDSM practices with no penetration.

Technically, ‘no sexual contact’ was a half-truth. It was up to the sub or dom whether they wanted to have sex with customers – butonlyoff-site.Neverinside the club.

I was 99% sure that Lau would keep the cops off my back, but I was still paranoid. After all, I’d nearly lost everything the night After Dark got raided.

I tried explaining Hong Kong’s laws to the customer, but he didn’t want to hear it. He was German and started ranting about prostitution being legal in Germany.

“This isn’t Germany, sir,” I said politely.

At that point, he became verbally abusive towards me –

Which sealed his fate.

I told him he would get a full refund but that he was to leave the premises immediately and never come back.

That made him even angrier –

So I had my security guys subdue him.

I tucked the 40,000 Hong Kong Dollars the German had paid (about $5000 US) into his pants pocket, took a picture of him with my phone as he screamed obscenities at me, then had my bouncers escort him down the elevator and throw him out in the lobby half-naked.

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