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Alona and I exit the CR to see Jana and Maria sitting on the bed. Jana pats the mattress by her. Alona, come sit by me.

Alona stands by me, wrapped in a towel, and looks at me, frightened. It's OK, you are not in any trouble. Go ahead.

Sitting on the bed, next to Jana, Alona is still fearful. Little sister, why are you shaking?

You hate me. I am afraid.

Why you think that?

I love Gordon.

Yes, I know that. Do you think I do not know that Ma'am Maria loves Gordon? Or Eve or Ma'am Zelle? They love my husband too.

Ma'am they not love him like me.

How can you be sure?

They kill themselves if anything bad happens to Sir Gordon? Truly?

Is that how you feel?

Yes, Ma'am. I kill myself.

I see. Do you understand that he loves me and will never leave me?

Yes, Ma'am! I know this. I will protect you because, if you are hurt, then Sir Gordon is hurt. I never want Sir to be hurt.

Rose say that you need to be with women but, you love Gordon. Is she correct?

Yes, Ma'am. This is true.

So you still want to be with a woman?

No, Ma'am.

What?

Not just one. I want what Sir says, many women. I should have many women to live with. We will have many buyers! A team. If there is a bad one, I will kick her out. We will have a team! I will have happiness of women to lie down with and we will have a loyal team for Bayan Na! But I will come to be with Sir Gordon when I can. I need him inside me. Very much so. Maybe I have a baby with him like Rose has from Jake. I think that is the right thing to do. You not hate me?

I do not hate you. I was confused. This is true. I thought you throw up at Gordon's penis.

Yes, I do, that happen but, that not happen now. But, Ma'am, it true too I want to be with females. No other man. Only Sir Gordon. It true that I want to be with you because you are Sir Gordon's wife. I want you to love me. I want you to do things to my body. I want to do things to your body. I afraid you hate me.

Jana looks at me. Did you talk to her about this?

No, I am hearing it for the first time.

What do you want me to do?

Jana, this is your decision. I can't make this one for you. If you want to take Alona to bed, then you should. If you don't, then be honest and tell her. I think right now the only thing that works is honesty.

Jana looks at Maria. Help me move my things to Alona's apartment. I am moving in with her.

I interrupt, Jana, that may not be a good plan. It looks like Alona will be able to move into Zelle's house later today. We will start adding other girls to that house with Alona in the next few days.

Gordon, thank you for the information. Maria, do as I say. When Alona moves, I will move with her. Alona, have you chosen who will join you?

No, Ma'am. Not yet. Alona looks at me, We were going to do this now?

Yes. That was the plan. Jana, what is going on? What are you doing?

Gordon, if Alona is Rose, then I am Joy. We are a team. Maybe we figure more out about this later. But I think I need to spend time with Alona for now. You will be fine. You have Maria, Zelle and Eve.... and maybe Cynthia. Gordon, I think she is staying. You know this?

No, well, sort of, but, I did not believe it.

Believe it.

Why are you leaving me?

I am not. Just like Alona is not. We are setting up the other house. We are going to spend time together. We are making sure that the other girls do not hurt any of us. Is that right, Alona?

Yes! Yes, Ma'am.

Stop calling me Ma'am. I am Jana.

Yes, Ate! That gets me and Maria laughing. Jana is not going to win this one.

I decide we need to get with the program. Jana you can probably move after dinner. Alona, please go up to my office and bring down the box of folders. You, Jana and I will look at them together on the dining room table. As soon as Alona is out the door, I look at Jana and ask the question I have to ask. Why?

Jealous?

Huh?

I am going to own that girls body. She may be yours but, to be yours, she has to be mine. When I am done with her, she will know that. Those other girls will come and go. I will always be here and she and I will be a couple. A couple for you but, a couple. Maria, Zelle, Eve and Cynthia, yes they love you but, die for you? I am sorry Maria but, that is not true. Well, maybe Zelle. I not own her. I partner with her.

I am not sure about this. Jana, I think you are wrong. Maybe Maria needs to speak for herself.

Thank you, Gordon. Yes, Jana is not correct. I think there is a truth she not tell herself. I think she likes girls very much. I think she wants Alona very much. Yes, she loves you and she always be your wife. But this is because she wants the girl. For me, I never leave you. You know this.

Thank you, Maria. Jana, any comment.

Hindi. Maybe she is right. I not know. But I do know I need to be with Alona for a few days at least.

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The selection process is interesting, Alona has a pile of mothers with older daughters. Jana has a pile with younger daughters. I am leaning towards Alona's pile for that reason. Jana is pushing back. Jana we have no way to deal with ones as young as the ones in your pile. I suspect that part of you seems to want to have young ones sexually. Maybe that is why you push young ones on me. That is OK to admit, if that is part of you but, it is a part we can't do. We will use Alona's pile.

Jana looks a little scared. You love me, Gordon?

Yes, of course, I love you. Why do you ask that?

Because of what you say.

What I said, has nothing to do with my love for you.

You love me anyway, even if it is true?

Yes, Jana.

Oh. OK. OK, we do Alona's pile.

A text is sent to Rose with details of who and how to contact follow. We tell Rose we have to wait a day or two.

Anyone hungry?

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Jana and Alona have retired to Alona's apartment. It is 3PM when Zelle's Pajero pulls into the compound. I watch her get out of the car. Actually, I watch as she sits in the car for the longest time. And then she gets out and just stands leaning against it for a few minutes. Finally she stands up straight and comes into the house. As she enters I hand her a cool glass of water. She drinks it in deep draughts. Putting the glass down, she looks at me, silently. She takes my hand and brings me to the couch, indicates that I sit and she then sits so that we can see each other, our knees touching.

They take Jonathan to jail.

She is silent for a bit. Her eyes shut tightly as she gets her labored breathing under control. Finally she nods to herself, taking a deep breath, opening her eyes, and continuing on.

We get a judge to order him away from the business and the house. The pulis, they not easy on him. I see this.

She shakes her head as if to think things through. Too much as transpired.

Someone at the store must have called his father. — His father come to me, when the pulis still there. He accuse me of bad things against his son. The pulis they push him into a chair and play the video. ... The man, he cry. He say, 'Don't kill him! Don't kill him!' I tell him to never come back again. His family must leave me alone or I make the video public. He beg me, 'No, do not do this!' I tell him, it is up to him. Cause me no problem then I give him no problem. But his son must pay for the evil he do! He must agree to an annulment, He must not request anything from me. I want to be done with him. He say 'OK, OK' they will do this.

Zelle grips my hand, takes another deep breath, closes her eyes briefly once again, and pats my hand. A small nod of something I cannot know is a final coda to the silence before she continues again.

The pulis, they say, ... Gordon, they will write a report saying that this behavior shows a deep variant criminal psychological makeup that has existed from before the marriage. My attorney and the judge they talk. If Jonathan pleads guilty to these bad acts and agrees to jail here, they will agree to not deport him and with the admission of guilt the annulment will go through right away.¹ Oh, Gordon! It has been a terrible day but, at least I am free of him. Completely free!

I see Cynthia standing out of the way and out of Zelle's line of sight. She has heard all of this. Maria is far off but I can see her. I wave at Maria to please come. She is scared for Zelle. Clearly something bad has happen but, she is not privy to the information. Ma'am, can I do anything for you? Zelle is saying no but, I ask Maria to please get her a paracetamol and some more water right away, and then get her to bed. Finally I suggest a hot kalamansi².

Yes, that would be nice, comes from Zelle, followed by a thank you to me. We kiss briefly and chastely before Maria walks off with her. Bed first and then the paracetamol, water and kalamansi.

Once Zelle and Maria are gone, Cynthia, who has been waiting for Zelle all afternoon comes over to me and sits down. What the fuck was that about?

The explanation takes a while but, I go through all of it. I know Cynthia was not supposed to know but, it is too late for that anyway.

Gordon, do you have the video?

Yeh.

I want to see it.

No, you don't.

Why?

Because it would serve no purpose.

Is this going to affect the business?

No, it actually clears away a problem. It upsets your time frame by one day but, it frees the company to deploy better and more buyers who will not damage the company every time they take a trip. It clears up the confusing relationship of an unconsummated marriage. It frees up our ability to work more closely with Alona who has been a good, loyal and loving member of this group.

Does Jana know about this?

Yes, she knows all of it except for what just happened.

This Alona, she the one I saw at the lunch table today?

Yes. Whose lover is she?

Jana's, mine... why?

I think Jana.

Yeh, well as they say, it's complicated.

There is a lot of drama going...

Cynthia! Hi! Eve has just walked in. There are hugs and kisses and giggles and then from Eve, I so need you to deploy the sales modules! We are dying for them. I have staff that we need to get trained on these things right now. When can we start? Do you have them with you? Can we put them on the server? Can we do it now?

Wow, slow down! Yes I have them. Yes we can put them on the server. But we need Zelle involved and this is not a good day for her.

Why?

You don't know? Gordon, is Eve out of this loop?

Yes, but, only because she has been gone. I need to get her up to date.

OK, you do that. I am going to access your server from my laptop and install code. Maybe we can talk about this after dinner. Gordon, this place is worse than an x-rated soap opera!

Yes dear! … Eve, come up to the office.

It takes a couple of hours but, I get Eve fully up to date. She demands to see the video and I decided she does need to see it so that she has no question as to conspiracy theories that might later float around. Once she has seen it, all she asks is, How long do we let the bastard live? I think my answer ends it when I tell her that, Let his family kill him. We stay out of it.

Eve is now aware of where Jana is and the plans for Zelle's house. She is also current on Raya, Amzkie and Sha. Yes, Sha. It is embarrassing but, she needs to know. We are just finishing up when Maria texts that dinner is ready. I text Maria that I will check on Zelle first.

Zelle's room is dark, as I enter. You come to check on me?

Yes. Are you OK?

No, but, better. It is hard to be OK, right now. But we can move on. Alona can move back and you can find a girl for her.

I found a girl for her. She's with Alona already but, they will add more girls too.

Really? Who, do I know her?

It's Jana.

What?

Yes.

How?

I will tell you before we go to sleep in our bed tonight. OK?

Our bed? Gordon? Not your bed?

Our bed. Oh, you still share it with Eve and Maria. But yes, you belong in it as my love.

Oh my God! OK. What happens now?

You come with me to the dinner table. After dinner you will meet with Cynthia and Eve about the Sales modules.

OK, let's go.

Dinner is a full house. Maria texted Jana and Alona that they can move into the other house after dinner. Both are at the table. Eve having returned along with all my underage, walking, heartthrobs, makes this a loud and active mealtime. Maria looks a little frazzled. She needs help! Oh shit. I announce, Before we go to do the things we need to do tonight, everyone helps Maria clean up and put things away!

Things are done as I requested and in no time, all are off to their own needs. The little ones are off to work! They are doing order entry that piled up during the day.

Jana and Alona are getting ready for the move tomorrow morning. Zelle, Eve and Cynthia are meeting on the sales modules.

I am in my office reviewing status documents and performance charts. There are soft footsteps coming my way through the open office door. I look up to see Maria.

We need to look at those folders, Gordon.

I know why she is asking. This is not for the company. Yes, OK, it's for that as well but, she needs a hand here. My best guess is she wants me to pick one pair, where the mother stays with us. That is not something I want.

Jana, Alona, and Cynthia are going to be gone. Eve isn't going to be here much. It is just Zelle, who will also be gone a lot, you me and the kids. Surely we don't want to add another permanent adult here!

You can't count! Cynthia's not leaving. Eve will be here most of the time, and so will Zelle. Yes I need help. Get the boxes out.

Why does everyone think that Cynthia is staying? She lives in the USA.

Fool, you took her birth control pills. Did she complain?

No.

So?

I see.

Finally! Jana tells me she has been in love with you even before you do business with her.

Jana is imagining things.

Maybe. I will ask her.

Who? Jana?

No, silly, Cynthia.

You think she will tell you?

Of course yes. Women know these things. Get the boxes out.

As much as I don't want to do this, I must. We need to grow the business and I can't without more staff. The staff I want is not your typical staff and that drives all of this craziness. It has created the craziness which is creating the problems for Maria. Maria is here because of the craziness.

I put a box on the desk and before removing a single folder I say to Maria, Do you have any idea how beautiful and smart these people are? Have you thought about what having such beautiful women and girls here will mean to the rest of you?

You think one of us worries about such a thing? Are not Zelle and Eve both lovelier than Jana. Do you leave Jana for either? Is Cynthia as young as any here? No, she is not young, and not ugly but not as pretty as others. And me? I am pangit but, you love me.

You are not pangit!

Yes I am!

No, you are darker skinned. That is all and that does not make you pangit.

We are not worried. Yes they are very beautiful. That is good for business. Di ba?

Yes, it is true.

So?

OK, OK. I pull out a few folders. In the next two hours, we have gone through sixty folders and have seventeen reserved for serious consideration. I am about to suggest that we have Jana review them too but Maria is already on the cell with Joy giving her the list. She tells Joy, We have selected.

Maria why did you do that? We haven't looked at them all yet.

Gordon, you are just delaying what must be done. She kisses me and leaves.

I get a text from Jake.

Nice selection!

That was a first cut from one box. Maria is angry because I am dragging my feet and sent the list over.

You *are* dragging your feet. Relax, you made some very good choices. BTW, heard news about Alona, you and Jana. Fascinating. You OK?

Yeh, I think so.

Uh-huh. Been there, done that. Joy pulled the rug out from under me when Rose showed up. Pissed me off at the time. Rose has been a God send. She has a taste for women, stronger than mine. The woman is insatiable! BTW, you need Jun and Joy there when you interview the girls. They will scare the shit out of the girls, as far as keeping you from getting in a jam. She will also explain how the cow eats the cabbage when it comes to their daughters.

OK, thanks.

Who, on your side, is setting up the interviews?

Me, I guess.

How about you give Rose and Joy your times to meet applicants. They can do the contacting and setting things up.

Sure, that would be a great help.

No problem. L8R.

I text Joy a set of times I can conduct interviews. Picking up a folder we have set aside and now may be an interviewee, I read through the documents carefully. The mother is well educated but fell on very hard times. There are two children, both girls. One is fifteen and the other is twelve. The mother is only thirty. She had the kid when she was fifteen. Jeezus. The fifteen-year-old is out of school. They are trying to keep the young one in school.

Other folders tell similar stories. I don't see one of these who will be happy being a maid!

I get a text from Joy

Start 2morrow?

Yes.

Those the folders for your new staff and mistresses?

Jealous, Zelle?

Actually, no. I should be. Right? I mean Maria told me they are like binibining³, di ba?

Yes they are. All of them and their daughters. Why aren't you?

Jealous?

Yes.

You don't want them, Gordon. You have fought to not do this. You love us and fight to keep us, when we say you should change. You say no! Why be jealous. I think you are more worried. Why?

Too many, feelings will get hurt.

See, I know it. You care too much. You don't want to hurt us. Look we will have them out in the field, not here.

No, that is true for the mothers, not the daughters.

I see. … Oh! I see! OK, we will figure this out too. May I see them?

I toss a folder over to her. She takes her time, moving through the pages and back. Another? I toss her a second one. Once again she works through it and then back to the first one. One more? I am not sure what the issue is but, she now has three she is reviewing.

Gordon, OK, maybe not jealous but, scared. When I hear binibining I think OK, yes pretty. No, not pretty. Gorgeous, stunning. And smart.

Yes, and poor and desperate and scared and alone.

OK. When do you meet the first one?

Tomorrow morning.

Oh! That soon?

Yes.

Huh. So while I am working on the sales modules, you are going to be fucking some of the world's most beautiful women? So not fair!

Well, when you put it that way, I do sort of like my job! Are you ready for bed?

Yes! That is why I come here.

Zelle may be stunned by the beauty in the photographs but, by any measure, she is a keeper. The odd thing is that they don't see their own beauty, they see their imperfections.

We walk into the bedroom together. It is an odd night. Before she was married and I was married. Now though the legality of our unions to others has not changed, it is only because reality and legality are not in sync. Her marriage to Jonathan is over. My marriage to Jana, is... what? I don't want it to be over. But just last night she was telling me to marry Zelle and today she leaves me for Alona. What am I to make of that? And so, here we are. This woman, who less than thirty-six hours ago said she wanted to marry me, is here alone with me. I start to undress, I have already slid out of my sandals, with no socks but, no, she stops me. Gordon, allow me.

She unbuttons my shirt, sliding it off my chest and arms. Her hands sliding over my bare chest. Nice, she says. She unbuckles my belt, unbuttons the top of my slacks and unzips the zipper, slowly. She giggles a bit, looking up. I have always wanted a husband to do this with. She drops my slacks down around my ankles and helps me out of them. She reaches up and rolls her fingers around the waistband of my boxers. Why you wear boxers? Why not briefs?

Don't know. You have a preference?

No, she says as she squats before pulling the boxers down, and over my semi-rigid pole. You ready for me, pogi?

I am not handsome but, ready? Yes, it seems so.

She leans toward me and takes me orally. I tell her, That's nice but, don't you think you should have your clothing off, too?

She pulls her head back, looks up, smiles and says, Patience!, before resuming her worship of the holy vessel.

When was your last period?

Huh?

When was it?

I don't... oh!

Uh-huh.

I pull her up, order her to take her dress off, slowly. I want to fully appreciate the mother of my child. Do it as sexy as you can.

Zelle is in a fog. The realization that she may be pregnant has just hit her. She was so wrapped up in the business that nothing else was registering. I wait until the woman, I once referred to as a cunt, is naked before me. Taking her to the bed, I bend her over and take her from the rear. She is tight, hot, wet and needing everything I am giving her. This deposit of cum will be meaningless. I am pinching the breast that will soon give milk. Fucking the cunt that will soon provide portal to my child. Married or not, she is bound to me now. I roll us over. I want to watch her as she rides my rod. Zelle scoots around so she is looking at me. There is a huge smile on her sweet face. I am deep inside her. She wiggles and giggles.

I am yours now. Really yours. Really forever. Our child will bind us. Our blood combines. We are history now, Gordon, not a footnote. I love you, Gordon. Truly. With this penis in me, I thee wed. Oh Gordon, this is such a good way to end this day. God, I love feeling you in me. You can fuck all the pretty ones. It's OK, we are always one. You and me! And with that, Zelle rides my rod until she can't move, her legs giving out.

I am still hard. I roll us into missionary position and help Zelle cum and cum again. I am not cumming and that is becoming a problem. I am hard but, nothing doing. And then I think about the fifteen-year-old I may see tomorrow. I think about her beautiful mother putting her on my rod and Zelle receives my cum.

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Chapter 23