John was in a good mood. He sipped his coffee and recalled all that had happened to him since he first visited Vietnam with a cattleman's delegation a few years back.
He had arrived in Vietnam after the death of his wife depressed and dispirited. In the course of a couple of years he had been transformed from a disinterested visitor to the largest single foreign investor and businessman in this poor remote province. More importantly he had been adopted into Rose's Vietnamese family surrounded by the love and affection of her eleven orphan daughters.
This mornings meeting with the family would hear reports of the financial success of the Hotel, the chicken farms, the feedlot, the slaughter house and the orphan training schemes at the garage and the embroidery plant. They were over the hump and heading for a period of growth with bird flu the only possible threat. It could only be a problem if authorities ignored what he had done and acted with panic implementing controls irresponsibly.
Since he had moved into Rose's bed one night after returning from Glens girlie bar his sexual satisfaction had reached heights he had never experienced before. Under Roses conservative demeanor he had discovered a hot blooded exciting woman. After years of celibacy Rose now wanted him every night. At first she had demanded that the lights were off and the shades drawn. Then she had relented when he kissed her pussy. "Turn the light on love," she had whispered. "I want to watch you love me."
Each night she went a little further responding to his mouth his fingers his cock and his words. As their love grew so did her sense of security in his arms. No longer embarrassed to let her orphans know of her delight in his arms her moans and groans and shrieks of delight grew knowing smiles from her daughters.
As their love grew she confessed to him that she had never thought she would ever dream of wanting a man's mouth to make love to her pussy. "Oh my," she had cried, "I still can't believe how I excited I become when I wait for you to kiss me in that special way each night." Their love blossomed and it showed in their treatment of each other in public. Especially in the kisses and cuddles they exchanged every time they met on the farm.
Then things changed. Rose became ill. For a while she refused to see their doctor but eventually gave in when John promised to take her to the French hospital in Hanoi and then spend the weekend with her in Sapa. They never made it to Sapa. The foreign Doctors in Hanoi immediately admitted Rose and scheduled an urgent operation. That night John sat alone in the waiting room when the doctor told him that Rose had not survived the operation.
He was stunned not knowing what to do. He had told the women who made up his loving family to stay home because he and Rose were going to have a lover's weekend in Sapa. His loss of Rose compounded by the need to tell her orphans messed up his brain until he could not think straight. For a while he felt that they would be upset and hate him because they were not with him at the hospital when Rose died. The families loving response soon made him realise that they loved both him and Rose. If anything he felt they were more worried about him than the loss of their mother. "Bring mum home," they cried. "We love you."
Never the less John became despondent crying inconsolably as he traveled back with her body feeling that his life was over. For months after the funeral he procrastinated refusing to accept she was gone and unable to face life without her. Rose's orphans rallied around surrounding him with their love and their words. Caressing him and cuddling him at every opportunity they gave him new hope as he remembered how he and Rose had met and the wonderful times they had experienced building their families Business Empire.
But his active love life with Rose had made him a horny old man. He privately lusted after the young Vietnamese lovelies in the village. He watched the young women working with the cattle noticing sexually for the first time their tiny bodies and the curve of their bottoms in their clinging outfits. He lay in bed at night and masturbated unable to recall a time in his long life when he was horny like he was these days.
He found himself thinking of visiting Glen's girlie bar. Glen had opened the bar after making arrangements with an Australian travel agent to organize what were virtual sex tours. Most of Glen's customers were Australians. Farmers from the Glen's home towns who were guaranteed a visit to girlie bars in Ho Chi Minh City, night clubs in Hanoi and as a final highlight three to five nights in the small provincial bar Glen had set up in Rose's village.
Months before when Glen had been bashed by some unhappy husbands and boyfriends Rose had encouraged him to support Romany the beautiful Vietnamese widow who ran the establishment for Glen. Despite the fact that she had a history of involvement in gangs Rose gave her the benefit of the doubt. "She is not a bad woman," she said when he was reluctant to visit the bar; "You must help her. Make sure no drugs and no big city gangsters move up here."
The bar was a Mecca for local girls all of them warm petite and lovely. They had found Glen a kind but horny boss who looked after them in return for a few sexual favors. The major attraction for local women was the fact that the bar was reserved for foreign visitors no local men were allowed entry. The foreigners were very generous with their dollars when compared with the few Dong the girls could earn selling produce in the local markets in the province.
Glen provided girls who worked his bar with a free meal a place to sleep and sexy outfits to wear. They did not have to flaunt their profession in the village because Glen operated a foreigner only guest house above the bar. They could leave the bar with a foreign man have sex and return to the bar without venturing outside where their friends and relatives could see what they were doing. His spa baths and showers and the beauty parlor provided comforts not known in their modest homes. When he instituted weekly health checks more and more women tried to join their friends working in the bar.
Glen after his bashing had lost interest in the bar. "I'm going to move out of the province down to Hanoi for specialist medical treatment and I'm taking Pansy with me," he said when John paid him a visit. "I own everything in that bar. It doesn't make much money but as long as I don't have to pay graft it will be profitable. I started it for the safe sex and the fun. I wanted to relax each evening surrounded by these little sexpots knowing that I wasn't going to catch Aids or have my dick rot away from some local disease."
"Romany turned it into a business. She is not only very beautiful and smart but she's a good root. She helped me a lot so I don't want to dump her and walk away leaving her flat." He laughed, "I don't know how to ask this of an old square like you but I want you to take the bar off my hands. I want to give it to you."
He smiled at the look on Johns face, "As strange as it seems the local women will see you as a benefactor especially if they can snare a foreigner into paying a hundred bucks for a roll in the hay," he laughed. "As you know that's over a million Dong and its enough to set them up in business or make them a rich wife for some buck back in their home town. Even the local authorities close a blind eye to the bar as long as I keep the locals out and play it low key. Promise me you will keep it going and look after Romany she needs help to free herself from the gangs."
On the first night after Glen had told Romany that John would be the new bar owner two tough young Vietnamese men pushed him into the back room and threatened him. "We will run girls here," they said. "We won't let an old white foreign dog like you interfere. What happened to the other foreigner will happen to you if you cause trouble."
Their threats turned out to be the worst thing they could have done. Instead of being reluctant to become involved in the bar John was determined not to bow to their threats. The next night he was playing pool when they pushed in close to him, "go home," they whispered, "Before you get hurt."
A rough life in western Queensland country towns had taught John how to handle him self in a brawl. He remembered his old dad saying hit them first and hit them hard with anything but don't loose. Before they could turn and leave he kneed one in the balls and hit the other over the head with his billiard cue. "Some one will get hurt all right," he growled as he repeatedly bashed them both with any available cue or piece of furniture, "and it won't be me."
To his surprise the few Aussies from one of Glens sex tours joined in. "It's about time these young shits learnt a lesson, they've been harassing the girls for the last few nights," a strapping big cane farmer called Fred said as he grabbed one of them around the neck and threw him against the wall. "Do you want me to give this little prick a good thumping?"
"No mate lets get Romany and talk to them." John groaned as he kneed the other in the balls once more. They dragged the two battered thugs into a room and asked Romany to interpret. Under pressure from Fred the two young Vietnamese thugs caved in quickly admitting that they had no city connections. They had moved up to this province hoping to establish themselves. They had heard of Romany's history and had thought she would help. But to their surprise Romany had seen an opportunity to turn her back on the gangs and had resisted their advances.
They thought they had struck gold when they watched Romany ring public security to ask for help and no one responded to her calls. If public security wouldn't help they knew they could provide muscle and demand protection money.