I was 44 when my wife died and I was devastated. I thought I'd never find anyone like her again, so I didn't even try. Instead, I threw myself into my work.
My employer was a big conglomerate with business concerns all over the world. They were always looking for people they trusted to work overseas.
The company had made investments in Eastern Europe so that's where I went. Abandoned practically overnight by the communist government when the USSR fell, these economies had simply collapsed. My employer had spent a fortune buying up farms, mines, factories, and transportation hubs. All bought for fractions of what they were worth.
Great plan on paper but it hadn't worked out well. The whole project was swimming in red ink. I was sent to investigate and they listened when I found problems. People got fired. Whole factories got shut down sometimes - though I tried to avoid that. But I did what I had to do.
I was paid well for what I did. Obscenely well after a while. After a few years, what I made in an afternoon might feed and house a local family for months. The locals didn't have money though.
Things were so desperate that women resorted to prostitution. The only people that could afford their services were foreigners like me. I could afford the best and so that's what I bought. I'd see them on the street and just take them back to the hotel room and they didn't charge by the hour - they were there for the night. When I was done in the morning, I dumped them outside in the hall just like the room service dishes. it was really like that.
Management didn't care. I got confidential memos from lawyers advising me things that I shouldn't do. Minimum ages, sodomy laws, and such. They also sent a bodyguard who watched my back.
It was an extreme life. I could have anything I wanted, but the problem with excess is that it's never enough. Sex was like a drug -- and I was looking for a bigger better high all the time. I got into kinky stuff. Rough stuff. Orgy stuff. Sick stuff. After a while though, I was just tired of it. The thrill was gone.
I AM not looking for sympathy here. I'm just trying to tell it like it was. I lost all interest is sex for a while. And then one day sex got interesting again. I guess that's what this story is really about.
It started with Maja. She was a desk clerk at the hotel I had been living in for a few months. She wasn't a stunner, but she was attractive in her own way. She was friendly -- we talked every night for a few minutes before I went to my room -- and she was a real go-getter too. I was impressed with her brain as well as her ass.
She wasn't stupid and I knew she couldn't miss seeing the never-ending parade of women entering and leaving my suite. She was a professional, though, and tolerated such things because I was a big spender.
I was all platonic and I never even thought about anything becoming sexual there, but of course it did.
It was around dinner hour when I stopped at the desk on the way to my room. Someone had delivered paperwork. As Maja handed it over, she made a snide comment about the two girls who had made their way out that morning.
"Whores so old. You pay?" She looked incredulous at the prospect.
This was shocking behavior in a part of the world where corruption and organized crime was rampant. People generally ignored bad behavior as you did not want to be noticed by powerful people.
She had to know that she was risking her job just mentioning that I was paying for the pussy -- but she had my attention and she knew it, so she kept on.
"I have friend. Many pretty. Many desperate. Her family, their home it is burning to the ground this yesterday.... Perhaps you pay her your fun?"
Maja studied my face looking for a reaction. I didn't give her one. She kept on.
"Not every night sex like whores..." She spat on the floor in a sign of disrespect. No respect for the working girl from Maja I guess.
"Look picture, yes?"
I waited for her to say more but she was done. She held out the tattered photo.
I took a look. The girl in the picture was only slightly more attractive than the average girl on the street. I handed the photo back.
Maja stated a price. An outrageous demand of maybe an hour of my wages.
"Too much."
"She is for you.... All things."
I smiled at that. "You have no idea what that means."
"Maja work for party boss. Two years. Know." There was pain in her voice. I had heard stories.
"Your friend - does she know?"
Maja thought about this for a second -- perhaps just seeking to translate, then.
"Her husband is ass-hole. Brute. No surprise."
I raised my eyebrows in disbelief, but Maja's gaze held steady. "No surprise."