WOULD YOU CONSIDER AN INDECENT PROPOSAL FOR 40K?

The last of the party revellers were just leaving the bar. After watching them leave, I turned to my friend and sighed. "So, you going to tell me what happened to your rollo" ? In resignation, he exhaled a huge plumb of smoke defiantly in my direction then stubbed out his cigarette into the over flowing ashtray.

Finally, he spoke. "It was all going well until she took off to Alicante".

"And...?", I replied. "She got back with her ex-rollo but it's more the circumstances surrounding it which worries me, even though we were only f**k buddies. Mores’ the pity that she left, she loved sex. I'm talking at least 5 or 6 times a night, whatever position and wherever".

"I need to ask you. What would you do now if I gave you 40,000 Euros"? He questioned. I explained about my love to do higher education, maybe to get a mortgage or to travel more widely. I asked him what he'd do, and remarked on his clever changing of the subject. "Who said I changed subject coño. Let’s say this is the stroke of luck my Polish rollo had".

My jaded nature pondered where the conversation was leading. Previously, it was fashionable for Eastern Europeans to declare undying love for Western Europeans for a hand in marriage and a few thousand pounds in cash. Many Brits have tried this. They’d forgotten that your wedded partner had entitlement to all your belongings plus the money given for the wedding. In Cataluna, you might be saved from this recourse with a wedding contract. Still, it can feel harsh, if one marries for love.

I asked about the stroke of blinding luck his female friend had. He went on and explained that she had gone away for a holiday by herself to a southern Spanish resort around a year ago. She had gone to a bar and met a well dressed and spoken man called Petri from Romania. After a few drinks, an invitation to a nice meal and a VIP club entrance, she was pretty much livened up for a bit of the dirty.

Getting back to his luxury hotel, she didn't take much convincing that the hotel's breakfast for two was going to be as good as the night’s hors d'oueves. Café was accepted, and the night's love-in commenced. The sex was good. She’d noted he was a guy who'd learned how to make a girl feel special and fulfilled. The next day, they awoke and had breakfast. He remarked they ought to meet up again as he was returning in a few nights time after he'd been to a high tech show in Madrid.

She thought about the appealing repeat possibility of a champagne breakfast. She then agreed to meet him a few nights later. He announced that he had a proposition for her to consider. 'If I was to offer you 40,000 Euros, black money, to have sex with me a weekend a month, what would you think'?

His friend was taken aback at first. She startled to giggle and asked where the money was going to come from. This money was earned by dealers buying state-of-the-art hi-tech sample items. They fetch a premium. Opening the heavy satchel from under the bed, proved the money was where his mouth was.

For her, it was a quick decision time. Agreeing to the deal, she could do with the money. Two days later commenced a sordid sex evening. His appetites had become more bestial. For as much as she was adventurous, uncontrolled S&M was the dish of the evening. It left her outwardly sore, and inwardly violated.

Next day, Petri left and she returned to Barcelona. After receiving suggestive and intrusive text communications, she decided to end the deal. She planned to return the money, when he was next in Spain and pray that the meeting would not take and undesirable turn of events.

Three weeks later, she met up with Petri. It took all her polish huevos to hand back the money. But the meeting went particularly well. She take one month's advance, even when it was offered. She took the next train to Barcelona.

Up to now, she had 1.5 years of bad or hollow relationships. This had hardened her to a mercenary resolve and decided to get back with him and to follow her dreams. My friend and I pondered, "To what price are the streets really paved with gold"?

Note: Names, places and occupations have been changed by request.