The Pregnant Wife

By Stephen Leather

Dave is an English teacher in Bangkok who discovers a way to get free sex with a stream of beautiful girls. He has the perfect life, until he meets Nok. And when Nok falls pregnant, Dave's life changes for ever.

Stephen Leather is the author of Private Dancer, the best-selling cult novel about the Bangkok bar scene.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen Leather
• Release date: Jun 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476150956

Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan "Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful eBook authors and his eBooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. He has sold more than a million eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website www.stephenleather.com

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THE PREGNANT WIFE

By Stephen Leather

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Copyright (c) 2012 by Stephen Leather

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The Land of Smiles, they call it. Well I’m not smiling, I can tell you. I had a wife in Thailand, and I had a daughter. And now I’ve lost them both. And it was my own bloody fault. The wife wasn’t mine, though, I have to admit that. She was married to someone else. But the daughter was mine. Even though I never saw her, and now I never will.

How did I get in this state? Playing the numbers, that’s how. I wanted free sex and I found the perfect way to get it. I just didn’t realise that in the process I’d lose the love of my life. And my daughter.

My name’s Dave, Dave Taylor, and I’m twenty-eight. I work as a teacher in a Thai school on the outskirts of Bangkok. It pays quite well and there are plenty of holidays and I get to do some private tutoring on my days off so I have quite a good life, everything considered. I didn’t move to Thailand for the career prospects, hardly anyone does. Like most guys, I came for the girls. Literally. Thais girls are the prettiest girls in the world, no question. I came out for the first time two years ago with a group of guys from work. I was a solicitor in Derby, doing mainly conveyancing work. Boring as hell, but it paid okay and at least I had a job. Only half the guys who graduated with me found work as solicitors; the rest are either on the dole, driving cabs or working in fast food restaurants.

We had a blast. A couple of my workmates were Thailand regulars so they knew exactly where to go to get the biggest bangs for our bucks. We were in Pattaya most of the time and I got laid every day. I’ve never seen a place like Pattaya, it has to be the biggest brothel in the world. We spent the day by the pool and the nights in the bars and massage parlours and I had the time of my life. I had more sex in two weeks than I’d had in my whole life. The girls were just throwing themselves at me. Wherever I went, girls would smile and say how handsome I was and pretty much every girl I met wanted to go with me. Seriously. I was almost having to fight them off. Don’t get me wrong, I got laid in England, but it was never handed to me on a plate like it was in Thailand. In Thailand I never got knocked back, not once. If I wanted a girl, I had her. Simple as that. I was paying for it, but that didn’t worry me one bit. Not back then, anyway. We were on holiday and living like rock stars.

There was a street with bars on both sides with rooms upstairs where you could have sex with the girls. As you walked down the street all the girls would call out, telling you how good-looking you were and how they wanted to go with you. It was unbelievable. Amazing.

Then there were the massage parlours where you could have a bath with two girls and then they’d cover themselves with soap and rub themselves all over you. I had half a dozen threesomes while I was in Pattaya. Brilliant. It was like a sexual Disneyland.

We’d hit the go-go bars after nine o’clock and they were just out of this world. Drop dead gorgeous naked girls dancing around chrome poles, all of them gagging for it. They’d go with you short time at the drop of a hat and if you paid them more they’d stay with you all