20She wasn’t expecting to find many customers in the club, but not that it would be empty except for a couple of cleaners who were setting up the tables and polishing them until they gleamed.
Better that way.
She was heading towards the rear when one of the cleaners, short and so thin that his trousers were almost falling off him, stopped her. "You can't come in now, the place isn't open to the public yet," he said.
"I'm one of Morena's girls."
"Are you new? Don’t you know that there is another entrance for staff? Just this time you can come through here."
Loreley thanked him with a smile and walked towards the corridor, where she met a girl with red bobbed hair who was going into the staff bathroom. So she wasn't the only one who had arrived early.
Morena was nowhere to be seen. Ma
