I was young, well 20 years younger, we had been working incredibly hard in Monte Carlo to finalise a deal as the client would only sign face to face and we did it, we won the contract. When you've worked so hard that you've never even left the office where you've been living, working and eating and quite literally, you've never even felt fresh air, you'll know the feeling.
The guy I was working with was an American, I had got to know him very well working together and he told me that all he wanted was to party. I, too, wanted to relax and unwind and we went down to Jimmy's, a bar in Monte Carlo, he had been there before whereas it was my first time. He seemed to know the staff very well and soon he was chatting to a very striking, gorgeous blonde, she was with another girl and he called me over.
The other girl was also very pretty. They were both Russians and spoke fluent French. More and more champagne seemed to arrive and soon all of us were getting progressively drunker. The girl was very friendly, she would run her fingers over my hand, flick her hair across her face, giggle. look at me intently and then she kissed me. As for the American, he was already snogging the girl he was with.
I honestly thought I had pulled a gorgeous and attractive girl.
Anyway, the American managed to pull himself away from his girl's mouth and announced that we'd all be going back to his suite. His girl giggled and said that she'd get more of her friends to come.
We got back to his suite, the music played, the drinks flowed, the dancing commenced and two more Russian girls arrived. It's all a haze of arms, legs and boobs after that. If you've been with a girl after you've been drunk, you'll know exactly what I mean.
In the morning, I woke up, the girls were gone and the American was preparing a chaser.
I was on a high, which quickly turned into a low, when he told me he'd given the girls £5,000 and asked me for half.
I really and honestly thought they were girls, it had never occurred to me they were prostitutes.
Anyway, I gave him half and left with a deflated ego.