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by Stephen Leather


  I feel very sorry for the girls that were forced to work in the brothels. That is the good thing about Oliver’s agency. No one forces us to do this job. We all do it because we want to do it. We do it by choice. But the gang did not give the girls any choice. I am happy that they went to prison. The newspaper did not say what happened to the girls. I hope they were allowed to stay in England. It would not be fair if they were sent home, too.

  When he took the money, Oliver gave everybody £300 back and said that was the fee for the party at St John’s Wood. I took the money but I didn’t say thank you or anything. I am fairly sure that Oliver put something in my drink at the party, and he knows that the Russian made love to me without a condom and he doesn’t care. And I think he and Cat saw them forcing me to have anal, but I am not sure if that is a dream or not.

  Dao was laughing a lot and saying that she wanted to go to another party like that because it was fun. I think she is a bit crazy. She has changed a lot and isn’t like the girl I used to know. Before she was sweet and a bit shy but now I think she is just crazy. She lost a lot of money playing cards, too. More than £1,000. I lost £600 because I found it hard to concentrate.

  Chapter 60

  Thursday June 8. Sandra phoned me yesterday to say that she was really angry with Bee. Bee still hadn’t paid her the money she owed her and now Bee has stopped answering the phone when she calls. Sandra said she wanted to go around to Bee’s flat and talk to her and wanted me to go with her but I lied and said that I had a headache because I didn’t want to get involved. Sandra kept asking me and said that Alice and Rachel were going with her and then I definitely didn’t want to go because I know that Alice and Bee really hate each other and there will be trouble if they get together again.

  A bit later Bee phoned me and asked me if she could come and talk to me and I said okay because actually I want to talk to her about working as an independent. I am still very unhappy with Oliver about what happened at the house in St John’s Wood. Oliver is supposed to take care of me and he didn’t at the St John’s Wood house. He let the Russians do what they wanted and he didn’t care. I don’t see why I should give one third of everything I earn to Oliver if he doesn’t take care of me.

  Bee came around just before mid-day and she brought a whole watermelon for me which was really nice because she had remembered how much I like to eat it. I cut it in half and we ate half each, using spoons. That is the way I like to eat watermelon. It is much tastier than eating slices.

  Bee had some big news for me. She said that she was stopping work as an escort. The rich American customer who gave her the Rolex watch wanted to take care of her and he had said that he would get a visa for her to go to America and get her an apartment in New York and that she would be his mistress which is like being a Mia Noi. Bee said the customer’s name was Christopher and he had a good heart and a lot of money. Christopher had told her that one day he would leave his wife but that even if he didn’t he would buy her the apartment and pay her a hundred thousand dollars a year and buy her anything she wanted. Bee laughed and said that Christopher really loved her. I asked her if she loved him and she said he had a good heart and he was rich and that was all that mattered. I asked her what would happen if she went to America and then Christopher changed his mind and Bee said that would never happen because she had used the magic perfume on him which meant that he would always want her, no matter what happened. She said that he was hers now until the day that he died, that whenever he thought about her he would want to have sex with her.

  She said that if I wanted I could buy some of the perfume from her but actually I am not sure if I believe her. I think Robert and Simon both love me but it has nothing to do with magic. I think that maybe some men who use working girls find it too easy to lose their hearts. I think that is dangerous because some girls will take advantage of weak men. Actually that is what I think Bee is doing. I think she is taking advantage of Christopher.

  I asked her if she was going to pay back Sandra the money for her contract and she said that maybe she would but she didn’t have the cash just then. She said Christopher was giving her some money but not enough to pay all the money that she owed Sandra. Bee said that really it wasn’t fair that she had to pay Sandra so much money. Sandra had only paid £6,000 for the contract but Bee was supposed to pay her back £18,000, which means a £12,000 profit for Sandra which is a lot of money. I didn’t say anything because it isn’t my business but I do think that a deal is a deal and Bee had a deal with Sandra so really she should pay her back.

  Bee said that the reason that she wanted to talk to me was to ask me if I wanted to take over her website. Actually she wanted me to buy it. She said I could put my pictures on the website and that I could start working as an independent. She said I would make a lot more money than when I worked for the agency. I said I would think about it and actually I will because I think that maybe Oliver doesn’t really care about the girls who work for him, I think he only cares about himself and about money. I used to think that Cat was my friend too but now I think that she is not really my friend. Bee said that if gave her £1,000 I could have her website and the mobile phone number. I think I will talk to Robert and ask him if he thinks it is a good idea. If I see Robert for four hours outcall he pays me £690 and I have to give £230 to Oliver. If I was an independent then I would keep all the £690. I am sure that Robert would be my customer if I was an independent. So would Simon and Simon comes to see me at least twice a week and stays for three hours each time.

  Bee asked me if I had read about the Russian gang who had been sent to prison for trafficking girls and I said yes, we had talked about it on Sunday and she asked me if I knew that they were friends of Oliver’s and that was a surprise. I said I didn’t know that and she said that she had been told it from a girl who worked for another agency. She said that before Covid a lot of working girls met at a Thai nightclub in Trafalgar Square called Thai Square and she used to go there every Friday night. She said that she met a girl who knew Oliver and she told Bee that actually Oliver has friends who work for the Russian Mafia and that I should be careful of him because he was a dangerous man. I am not sure if that is true. Oliver has always been very kind to me. Sometimes I think that Bee does not always tell the truth. Anyway, we ate the watermelon and we watched some Thai soap operas.

  In the evening Richard came to see me again for an hour’s incall but he only stayed forty minutes. Richard is the customer who tells his wife that he is out running but really he is in my flat having sex with me. He came in his tracksuit and running shoes and said that he had taken a taxi to my flat because it was quicker. I think it is more fun exercising with me than running around the streets. Actually, he is not having exercise, he is having sexercise!

  My last customer was Vince and he came at just before midnight and booked me for two hours. I like Vince now. He is a customer but I think he is a real friend. He took cocaine while he was in my flat and asked me if I wanted some but I said no, I didn’t like taking drugs and he said that was okay but that there was nothing wrong with cocaine so long as you didn’t get addicted to it. I am not sure if that is true because if drugs were okay I don’t think they would be illegal.

  Chapter 61

  Friday June 19. Yesterday I had two incall customers during the day. One was called Luke and he was quite nice. He said he worked in a pub but now he was out of a job and he said that he hadn’t had sex for three months. I am not sure if that was true or not but he paid for two hours and had sex with me four times. I don’t think he had taken Viagra either because his face wasn’t red and he wasn’t sniffing.

  The second customer was called Jean and he was from France. He was quite young and said he was a lawyer and that he lived in Paris. He had booked me for two hours as well and asked me if I had any cocaine and I said I could get some so I called Vince and he brought some around to the flat and Jean paid him.

  In the evening Simon booked me for four hours and
he came around with a pizza. We watched two movies on Netflix and I opened a bottle of champagne. Then we went to the bedroom and I made love to him. I wish that I had more feeling with Simon but he is so small that there is no feeling at all and I am always worried that the condom will come off. That is the funny thing about condoms. In the shops they only sell one size but men are actually all different sizes. Do you know, I have seen hundreds of men naked and there is a lot of difference between the biggest and the smallest but there is only one size of condom. I suppose that if they did make them in different sizes the men who needed the small size would be too shy to buy them.

  Simon left at one o’clock in the morning and I thought I would be finished for the night but at two o’clock Oliver phoned and said that I had an incall booking for ninety minutes at half past two. I was so tired that I just wanted to sleep and then I remembered that Jean had left behind a little bit of cocaine. He had used most of it but there was some left and he had forgotten to take it with him. I had actually thrown it away but I got it out of the bin and sniffed it. It was the first time I had ever sniffed cocaine and the feeling was totally different from licking it. It is difficult to explain how it felt but it stopped me from feeling sleepy. I felt like I had a lot of energy and at one point the customer said I was making love to him so hard that I was hurting him. I thought that was funny and I laughed a lot and he said that I was crazy.

  His name was Eddie and he said that he had been arguing with his wife because she had been unfaithful so he had slept with me to make her feel bad. His wife had left home and was living with another man, he said, so really I am not sure that he is sleeping with a working girl. I felt a bit sorry for him and I gave him my phone number and said that I hoped he would come to see me again. After Eddie had gone I tried to sleep but I couldn’t because my heart was beating so fast so I lay on the sofa and watched Netflix movies all night.

  Chapter 62

  Saturday June 20. I put more money into DVD cases and posted them to my mum in Thailand. This time I sent £3,000 in fifty pound notes.

  Oliver phoned me at mid-day to say that I had a booking for domination with Candy again. It was for two hours starting at one o’clock so I went straight around to her apartment to get ready. Candy was wearing a red plastic dress with holes cut out for her breasts and thigh-length black plastic boots and she had painted her nails a bright red and she had on bright red nail varnish. Actually she looked very sexy. She helped me get changed into a very strange dress that was just strips of leather held together by studs that showed off most of my body. She gave me a pair of thigh-length boots and I put them on then she put lipstick on me. Lots of lipstick. Then we stood and looked at each other in the mirror and said that we both looked very sexy. The customer was called Walter and he worked for a bank. I thought about asking him about how I could open a bank account in England but after I had seen what Candy did to him I didn’t want to ask him for his advice. He wanted Candy to use a strap on him while I held him down. He kept begging her to stop but he didn’t use the safe word which meant that really he didn’t want her to stop. The strap on was so big that it must have really hurt. He kept calling her Mistress which was quite funny. Mistress can be the same as Mia Noi, a girl that a married man takes care of, but in domination Mistress means something else. Mistress means that she has power over the man.

  Candy told me that sometimes men liked a woman to have power over them, especially men who are in important jobs. They spend all day telling people what to do and to relax they want someone to tell them what to do. But I do not understand why he wants a dildo up his bum. I think that maybe he is gay and that really he wants a man to do it to his bum.

  Candy spent thirty minutes doing that to him, then she tied him to the bed and put a blindfold on him and then we both hit him with leather whips. Candy made him beg us to hit him and every time we did he had to say ‘thank you, Mistress.’

  While we were doing it Candy talked to me in Thai, telling me about the last time she went shopping with Alice and Rachel and the fun that they had. I think the customer would be annoyed if he knew what we were talking about because we were supposed to be working but Candy said that he didn’t understand Thai.

  Candy said that Walter liked to make himself come but he wanted to do that while she dominated me. She had done it before with Nancy and was I okay and I said sure, so long as it didn’t hurt too much. She took the blindfold off him and untied him, then he helped tie me up and Candy hit me with a leather whip as Walter sat in a chair and made himself come. Then she made him kneel down in front of us and kiss our feet and thank us. He must have really enjoyed it because he gave us both a £100 tip.

  After Walter had gone I used Candy’s bathroom to shower. I went to pee and it itched a little bit when I peed and I had a white discharge which I think is not a good thing. I asked Candy what she thought and she said that it was nothing to worry about and that maybe I had been eating too much spicy food. Maybe she was right. It only itched a bit and it’s not as if it hurt or anything. Maybe it will go away on its own.

  I went home and I had two customers for incall, one at six o’clock and one at eight o’clock. The first one was called Ryan and the second was called Danny and it was funny because they were both from Ireland and they both looked the same with black hair and blue eyes. Now when I think back I can’t even remember which is which. I asked them both for their phone numbers and told them that I really liked them and wanted them to come back and see me again.

  Bee phoned me at ten o’clock and asked me if I wanted to meet some girls who work for another agency, the ones she used to meet in Thai Square before Covid. I said yes. I sent Oliver a text saying that I had a bad stomach and that I couldn’t work any more that night and then I got changed and ordered an Uber taxi.

  When I got to Bee’s flat she was with two pretty girls. Their names were Poy and Fun and Bee said they worked for A1 which is the biggest Asian agency in London. They were quite pretty but had very dark skin. I think they were from Isarn. Bee asked them about the girl who had been attacked and they said that she was still in hospital. Luckily in England when you are in hospital you don’t have to pay because in Thailand you have to pay a lot of money when you are very sick. Poy said that she had heard that two other girls had been attacked and the police had a picture of what they thought he looked like but they still hadn’t caught him. I told her about the policeman who had come to see me and Fun said that he had come to see her, too. The police really care about the working girls in London. The police in London are really nice, I think. In Thailand you have to be careful of the police. If you have an enemy and he has friends who are policemen then you have a big problem. Bee told Poy and Fun that she was giving up work and that her big American customer was going to take care of her. They squealed and hugged her and told her how lucky she was. Poy said that was the dream of a lot of working girls, to find a man who can take care of them. But that is not my dream. I want to work and make money so that I can help my family myself.

  Then another girl arrived. Her name was Moon and she worked for A1, too. Bee introduced me and said that Moon used to work for Oliver but she had stopped after a customer had forced her to have sex without a condom. Moon had complained to Oliver but Oliver said there was nothing he could do about it but Moon found out that the customer was a friend of Oliver’s and that he was from Russia. The customer was one of the men who had just been sent to prison, said Moon. Oliver was a bad man, she said, and he worked for the Russian mafia. She said it would be better for me if I did not work for Oliver because he did not care about his girls, he only cared about money. I did not know what to say because Oliver has always been good to me but it is true that he didn’t help me when I complained about what had happened in the house in St John’s Wood.

  They talked about Thai Square and how sad they were because it had to close.The girls said that the bar was a good place to meet Asian guys and even farangs and that the men usually didn’
t know that they were working girls. I said that I didn’t want to meet farangs or Asian men because I didn’t want to FFF, I just wanted to work. The girls wanted to know what FFF meant and I told them it meant Fuck For Free and they all laughed at that. Fon said that she never did FFF. Even if she met a guy who didn’t know that she was a working girl she could still get him to spend a lot of money on her. She showed us the Cartier watch she was wearing and said that a guy she had met in Thai Square had bought it for her. It was a nice watch.

  We had a really good time, eating and laughing and sharing stories about our customers. It almost made me forget about the problems I was having with Oliver and Kung.

  Chapter 63

  Sunday June 21. Yesterday I saw a VIP customer. That is what Oliver called him but I didn’t recognise him. It wasn’t like when Nancy and I saw the famous actor. But he was a VIP that is for sure because he had bodyguards, a lot of bodyguards.

  Oliver said that I had a VIP customer at a house in Belgravia and that I should wear something smart. Oliver said the customer would pay me in dollars and that was okay. He should give me $800.

  I took an Uber taxi to the house. It was huge, a mansion. I rang the doorbell and after a few minutes a very good looking man in a black suit opened it. My heart actually turned over he was so good looking and I thought he was the customer and I was very happy but he wasn’t the customer, he was a bodyguard. He had a thing in his ear and once he put his hand to his mouth and spoke into his sleeve which looked quite funny. As he spoke to me I saw two other men watching us. They wore good suits too and had things in their ears. I went up in the lift with the good-looking bodyguard. Yes, the house was so big there was a real lift in it. He didn’t say anything to me in the lift and even though I smiled sweetly at him and asked him his name he just looked at me. I think he was smiling a bit, though. I wondered what he would do if I knelt down and gave him a blow job, but that was just me thinking crazy like I do sometimes.

 

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