Perfect coincidence

By: Yasmina Soto

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

I had to attend a leadership course on a Friday afternoon in one of the most luxurious hotels in Bilbao. After the talk, we went up to the hotel bar, and by chance, our eyes met—she was in the restaurant, seemingly in a boring meeting, while I was with my colleagues from the dental clinic where I work as a dentist.

My colleague Julia devises a plan for me to meet the woman I'd been exchanging glances with all evening, and after talking to her briefly, miraculously arranges a date for me and tells me to wait for her at the bar. What I didn't expect was that Marta, as she's called, would mistake me for an escort and ask me how much I charged for a night. After thinking about it for a few seconds and concluding that a woman like her was out of my league, I decided that at least I would have her for that night, so I gave her a price and she accepted it.

The problem is that lies always complicate everything, and when I realized I was falling in love with her, I didn't know how to tell her that I wasn't really who she thought I was.