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Morning finds me with Zelle spooned against me. We both need to get moving. Gentle kisses do the trick. Showers completed and dressed, we head toward our different duties.
I will not see Zelle, Eve or Cynthia until tonight. Jana and Alona are moving to the other house this morning. It is disquieting watching my wife leave with five suitcases. I am not happy. I will not see her for how long? I surely do not know. Tomorrow Rose is helping with the interviews for them at that house. Maria remains as do the children. But the three older ones are working in the fourth apartment which we have set up as their office.
I am fidgety, uncomfortable. Sha and Maria hover. Joy will be here in less than an hour. The interviewees, mother and daughters, will be here in two hours.
Sir, Sha needs instruction on sex. You are not busy right now. May I teach her? I am not thinking and say, Yes.
Maria and Sha squat down close to me. Maria puts her hands on the inside of my knees and pulls them apart. She unzips me and pulls my flaccid rod out, handling gently. In very quiet voices, mother and daughter discuss the details of a penis. Fingers slide smoothly over parts. First Maria's, later Sha's. A tongue touches me and then again. A mouth encloses around my member, and then the other mouth, too small, encircles me. There is nothing unsettling, nothing quick. It is all in slow motion: no sharp edges, no nails, no teeth. I drift. I am not close to cumming but I am very hard. I hear someone clear a throat. Oh shit, it is Joy! The girls scramble and I zip up!
I gather that Maria was teaching her daughter?
Yes, you are correct.
That is good. Mothers normally do not do this. It is best that they do. You looked like they were doing it good.
Yes, it was a good lesson. I am sorry you see it.
Ah! That is not a problem. I am happy for you. Maria is a good mistress. Jana is gone?
Yes.
Are you OK?
No.
I think that is what it is. You not know how much Jana wants girls, correct?
Yes, that is right.
I warn Rose about that. I see it when we give her the first folders. I see it in her eyes. She is not like Alona I think. But she wants girls too.
I see. You can tell these things?
We see many females. We learn what the looks say.
Oh. What do you see in Maria?
She love you. She will not leave. You should trust her.
OK. But she gave me her eleven-year-old daughter.
Yes, I am glad she does that!
Why?
Now all she has is yours. She has nothing without you. She and her daughter will always be with you. Very good. Like me and Abbey for Jake.
Oh.
Jun is coming with all the girls.
What do you mean, all of them?
All the mothers. We will have a meeting here. They will learn the rules and learn that they are a group, a team. None of them is special. They need to know this at the beginning. They need to see that they are not any more pretty than any other one here. That is very important.
Oh, you have done this before?
For the school yes. When we help Maricar and Imee we do not and we cause a problem. We will not make that mistake again.
Big problem?
No but it did cause Lawrence headaches he should not have had. He had to send one girl away that Rose thinks we could have avoided if we had done this. I don't know about that but, maybe.
I see. Do I need to get chairs for all of them?
No they will sit on the floor. Not a problem. Is this all you will need?
If this works, we may need two to three times this many in total.
Ganun?
Yes.
These are seventeen families. So either another seventeen or maybe as many as thirty-four?
Yes eventually. Not all at once.
Wow! OK this is very good news. You have a vasectomy?
Excuse me?
You cut?
No, why?
Then you will have many many mestizo children! Nice!
How did you meet Jake?
What I hear I guess is not for this. It is a long story but, the short version is that she and Abbey sandbagged the guy. So Joy and Abbey are the original bricks in the edifice of what has been built. She has been with the guy for years now. It is clear that she is his.
Joy tells me that as far as she sees it, and she has not met Zelle or Eve, Maria is my Joy. Jana is not. I find that take on things interesting, though I hope, inaccurate. In my experience, people often try to fit others into the roles that they know and understand. It's a matter of 'typing.' It is often, simply, wrong.
We hear a jeepney drive up. Joy tells me they arranged for this. The gate is opened and the women are disgorged from the vehicle. Joy is outside and putting them all on the lanai. Chairs are put in front of them for Joy, Jun, Maria and me. Jun has a small bottle of water by her chair. The fact that they are including Maria is a surprise to me and I gather to Maria.
Jun introduces me and says that, Maria is one of Gordon's trusted assistants. If she says something, you should assume it came from him. If you are selected to stay with Gordon, there will be others you meet with the same type of power. ... This is more an interview to see if you will be accepted into Gordon's family. There are two companies that are run as family operations from here.
She pauses before continuing.
If you are selected, you and your daughters will become Gordon's mistresses and enter into the family. You will help run one of the businesses and help grow it. These jobs are not entry level positions. These positions involve starting up new stores and warehouses, hiring and firing others, and running these locations on a day to day basis.
Every eye is locked on the Jun as she takes a sip of water.
After training, many of you mothers will be far from here for long periods of time but, the daughters will stay here until they are old enough to run operations for the company.
The daughters are here and they are sitting stock still, taking this all in.
Each and every person chosen will have a real future for life. These are not five month contracts at small wages. But if you or your daughters are unwilling or unable to bind yourselves mind and body to Gordon, then you should get up and leave now. The Jeepney will take you back, no questions asked and no problems.
Then Jun says, You are now to take a ten minute break, talk among yourselves only, not us. Following the break, if you have chosen to stay, you can and should ask us questions. After the break, every question asked will be answered. If some want to leave after the questions are answered you will have that opportunity as there will be another break. You can also talk to others if you choose before you decide to leave. The Jeepney will have returned by then. ... A second question period will occur after this second break and once again we will answer all questions. If you then want to leave the Jeepney will have returned to take you away, if you want to go. ... If you stay, you will have to sign a confidentiality agreement which will bind mothers and daughters. Let no one say you were forced to do anything you didn't want to do! .... OK break now, get on the Jeepney if you want to leave!
Jun motions for us to get up and go into the house.
Maria scoots into the kitchen and pours a pitcher of water and puts some glasses on a tray, brings it to Jun and Joy and me. She texts someone. Thirty seconds later, the young ones come over from the apartment. In short order they are carrying pitchers of water and glasses on to the lanai. Maria has not issued any instructions about what they can and can't say. I can see the girls getting quizzed. I suspect that it will be OK, though I am a little concerned about Sha's presence.
Twenty minutes more than passes. I look out and no one is in the jeepney. The driver is leaning against the bus. He can't hear what is being said on the lanai and he had instructions to get into the bus if he needed to drive someone back to town. We go out to the lanai and sit down.
Jun starts again, Questions?
Those girls, they say they are mistresses of Gordon. Is this true?
OK here we go, I may be going to jail. I speak. Yes, they are mine and I love each one of them.
Love in your heart or your bed, Sir?
Both, Ma'am.
A little young?
Very much so. And I said as much to the youngest's mother. She is sitting right here. Both she and her daughter lied about the child's age and insisted. But yes, it is me who took the girl and my responsibility. Anything more about my sweet Sha? No? OK next question?
What type of companies?
It's a combination of retail home furnishings, trucking, shipping, logistics and software. We are in the process of growing the companies. We can hire employees but we need the structure to manage and bind the entire system together. Part of this involves computers, data, intelligence collection and management, and some of it requires a corporate staff to glue it all together.
We would be that glue?
Yes. Each of you have amazing résumés. You are all incredibly intelligent, show flexible thinking, have great beauty and your daughters show the same attributes. There are others – more than one hundred and fifty more – just like you. We chose you first simply because you were in the first box of résumés we reviewed. So while you bring us the things we need, there are others. You do not need to feel any pressure to stay. We will be OK if you leave. But if you stay and are as good to me as I hope you will be, we will all have a great future.
Why the sex? Why not just hire us?
I am not looking for employees. Employees leave. I am looking for mistresses, some of whom will give me children.
There is a murmur in the room.
How many children do you want?
We have not set a limit. I want my children to run these companies some time in the future.
What will our daughters be doing?
Going to school and working in our back office doing data entry in the modules we use to track and manage the companies. By the time they are old enough to go out into the field they will know more than any of you, I send out now!
But you will have sex with our daughters?
Yes.
Why?
Same reason as with you.
What if we want to leave?
You may leave but, you are bound by a confidentiality agreement. Talk about anything you have seen here, or done here, or know about here, and we will be very severe in our legal actions. People who put all the others here at risk, by acting badly will not be ignored. Every person who joins the family is a stake holder in the future of the company and in every other woman who joins us. Hurt one of us and you hurt all of us.
If we leave, will we be able to take our daughters?
This is not slavery. You mothers have full legal control of your daughters, not me, until they reach legal age. If you leave before they are legal adults, they must leave too. It is a simple issue.
Will you fire us?
That's a good question. I have given that a lot of thought. If I ask you to join a family, what does that mean? The answer is no, so long as you have not killed someone, stolen from the company, which means from the rest of us, or injured another member of the family in another way. We had a situation where a person almost killed someone in sick rage and stole from the company. That person is in jail. Other than that, if you are not working out in one position, we will find something that you can succeed at. All of us have limitations. Families love each other and find a way to succeed.
There doesn't seem to be any more questions. Jun gets up and declares another break and another chance to leave. As soon as the break is announced, merienda1 and pitchers of juice appear, brought out by my girls.
Jun looks outside and asks Maria, You tell them to do this?
No.
I don't understand.
They see what is happening. They have good hearts.
Where did they get the money for the merienda?
The cash drawer. It's for that sort of thing.
The money is in an open drawer?
Of course! Gordon trusts us. We respect him.
OK, good.
I look out. No one is leaving. I look at Jun. Why is no one leaving?
Same reason why, when I give this talk at the school, not one leaves. This is the best option they may have ever had in their lives and we pre-screened for flexible thinking.
After fifteen minutes we are outside again and ready for questions.
What religion must we follow?
There are no religious requirements. You may pray, or not. You may be any religion so long as you practice tolerance toward other religions. You may not proselytize. I don't care what you believe, you are not to tell anyone else that your way is better than theirs.
Truly?
Yes.
May we take off for religious observance?
Yes but you must find someone to cover for you. We do not shut down the companies because of your religion. These are companies and not churches.
Where is your wife?
She is busy organizing the team that will be our international buying unit.
Why are we not considered for that?
Because none of you are lesbians.
Shouts of, Hala!
Sir Gordon, I don't think any of us will leave, may we just relax, wander around, go to the CR, talk to you and Ma'am one on one? I think we are all your new girls anyway if you will have us.
I look at Jun. Sir will need to interview each of you individually before you are truly accepted but, I suspect all of you will succeed. So, Sir Gordon, I recommend that you agree to this.
OK, then let us assume that we are free until noon when we will all have some lunch. Maria, can order some pizza's from Yellow Cab. Is everyone OK with that?
I get a chorus of yes's.
Things get a lot less formal. One female comes up, shakes my hand and says, I talk to Sha. She is so young! I say to her why you allow this man to do this to you. But she say you try everything to tell her not to do it. She say you promise her she will always be OK and safe, without ever touching you. She say she demanded you do this. Sir Gordon, I don't know what to say. I find what happened is wrong but, how do I find you wrong? And then I think about my little ones, we will stay if you let us but, I am truly concerned for my little one.
If I remember, you have a fifteen year-old, Pia, a twelve-year-old, Brenna, and a ten-year-old, Princess. Do I remember correctly?
You know?! Yes! That is exactly correct.
Your name is Anja?
Yes! Oh my God! How you do that?
I spent time making sure I was picking good people. Here is my promise to you, Anja. Unless you put Brenna in my bed, I will not touch her until she is at least fourteen. I will not touch Princess, I don't care what what you might want me to do. I won't touch her for at least two years even if you plead that I do. I prefer to wait until she is fourteen, and will only take her sooner if you put her in my bed, which I hope you never do. If I agree that you are to stay, I will take Pia and you now. That is my promise to you.
You just tell the truth. You do not lie to get your way. I never meet any one like this before. They say Jake is like this. I am not happy with my Pia having your penis in her but, I agree to it.
Will Pia? She has to agree as well.
Yes, she will agree.
Is Pia here?
Yes, there she is back there.
May I meet her?
Yes, of course.
A very pretty girl comes forward.
Pia, you heard everything said today?
Yes, Sir.
Do you have any questions?
Am I pretty enough, Sir? The mothers, they are all so beautiful. But you say we will be lovers, correct?
Yes, you are very pretty and, yes, you and I will be lovers if you and your mother are selected.
What do we need to do to get selected? We will do it.
You are OK being my lover, Pia?
And have your child? Yes! Hehe, of course, Yes!
See, I told you Sir, there is no problem about my daughter.
Yes Anja. That is what you said. Where are your younger ones?
We leave them at Jun's school. I have nowhere for them, and Jun say I should come. I say to her I cannot because of my children. She agree to keep them for the meeting. I need to get back to get them soon.
If I send one of my girls and Pia to get them, is it OK if they are here for the Pizza and stay for the afternoon?
Sir?
After the pizza the jeepney will carry the rest away and we will set up interviews. But, if you want, I will do Pia and your interview today. Do you need to go back to something right away?
No, we have nothing to go back to. We have nothing. But I not have money to get us back later if the jeepney is gone.
Well, if you need to go back later, I will drive you back myself. And maybe you will stay.
Sir?
What?
You say, if we accepted, we just stay?
Yes, unless you need to go back.
Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! No. Nowhere. Nowhere! Yes! Please! Send for my girls!
I signal to Renelyn and ask her to go with Pia and take a tricycle to Jake's, to get Pia's sisters. As they take off, I tell Jun what's up. She tells me to stop Renelyn! I get them stopped just before they are in the tricycle. Jun gets Mitch to drive the girls here.
Once all this is completed, I ask Maria to take Anja and Pia into the house, give them showers, and good clothing. I don't have to say more. Maria has the two herded into to the house fast as can be done. Jun is talking to some of the mothers. Joy comes up to me. Looks me in the eye and asks, How did you know?
Know what?
From our evaluation they are better than any of the mothers we took into the school with the exception that the mother came two years too late. If she had come when Pia was twelve, we would have found a way. The family is special. What did it for you?
The way she spoke with me. She was honest, clear, focused and flexible all at the same time. That makes her a very unusual, remarkable person. Pia spoke with a maturity and a sense of humor that is impressive.
Yes, that is exactly what we see in her. I am happy with you, Gordon. Not many men are in Jake's class. Almost none. That is why we keep others from Jake. You are like my Jake. He doesn't think so but, he needs friends, maybe you will be one to him.
That is a very kind thing to say. I know you love Jake in a way that is without limit. Jake is lucky to have you.
By the way, I listen in to what you say about Anja's girls. That is very smart. For what you are doing, it makes perfect sense.
Thank you again.
While we were talking, Amzkie and Raya have set up the Karaoke on the lanai. A party has broken out! I withdraw to the house.
Inside, I sit down at the dining room table. Renelyn sits down by me. I like them Gordon.
Oh, why?
Pia. She will be a good addition. When we are leaving we talk. She asks if she can really do meaningful work if she is here. She say she dreams of doing things that have meaning.
Nice.
Where did she go?
Maria took them to a CR for clean-up and new nice clothing.
Cool, I am going to help do makeup! See ya!
The pizza delivery is a big success and everyone claims to be full even though plenty of pizza is left over. Jun gets them back on the bus. We will set up more interviews starting tomorrow.
It takes quite a long time before I see Anja and Pia again. This time they are with Brenna and Princess. When I do, well I don't. They do not look the same. Maria is standing behind them, rolling her eyes and indicating that we are all in for a hell of a shock. But it's not just Anja and Pia who are taking my breath away. Good God! How does one so young look like that! But Anja and Pia are without words to describe. There is no way! Oh, fuck, are they all going to clean up this good? I remember what Zelle said last night. Jeezus, what will she say now? Binibining indeed.
OK, well as much as my tongue might want to hang out and drool on the floor, there are realities and necessities. The reality is that there will evidently be others just as beautiful and I am going to get to fuck all of them. So the tongue can stay put. These girls are mine if I want them. The necessity is that they should not believe they are that special to me. I don't want them to think they have any advantage over others.
Come eat! You must be hungry!
The young two hurry to the table and are helped to food by Amzkie and Sha. But Pia looks at her mother who then looks at me. They stand straight. You like, Sir?
I laugh, and get a startled look from them. Anja! You and Pia are beauty queens, as are many of the other mothers with daughters I will be making part of my life. Yes, your beauty, and that of your daughters', is exquisite. There is no question of that. If beauty alone was the measure, I would accept you right now. Both of you, come sit by me, grab some pizza and drinks, and we will talk more. I look up at Maria. Come join us, my love. Maria smiles, nods and sits with us.
Maria is not your wife? This is correct?
Yes, my wife is Ma'am Jana. Maria is a mistress. Her responsibility is this house, all that happens in it, and... me. Do I have that right, Maria?
Yes Gordon, but, you do not come last in the list.
Anja looks perplexed. Sir, Ma'am Jana is not the one to take care of you?
Not at this time.
Then Ma'am Maria is a very important person!
Maria is embarrassed and blurts out, Hala! No! The important person is Ma'am Zelle!
Who she?
She own Bayan Na stores.
Oh! She friends with Sir?
Hindi! She his mistress.
OMG! Talaga?
Yes!
I decide to stop this nonsense. No! It is true that Zelle is a mistress to me. It is not true that she is more important than Maria. Maria is very important, and you will not be working for Zelle's Bayan Na. You will be working for our family's business. It is true that I want all my mistresses to like and love each other. But do not put anyone over Maria. I look right at Maria as I say, No one belongs there. No one.
Sir, may I ask a question of Ma'am Maria?
Of course.
Ma'am, how you do this? This place is too big for you. Who help you?
Maria stares an Anja, closes her eyes, shakes her head, and takes a long breath before opening her eyes again. Friend, you are right. This place is too big and I tell Gordon, I need help. The others when they are here, yes they help but, they are not here most of the time. It is a problem. I ask Gordon that maybe he find me help from your group of families. He says he does not think any will be right for this.
What? Not right for taking care of Sir's house? What nonsense is this? Sir! I will do this! I will!
That makes Maria smile but, we are jumping ahead of where I want to be. Further it is useful to consider that Anja is a very smart girl. I have just announced that there is probably no more important person in my life, than Maria. Having immediately figured out that there is a hole in the fabric here, which Maria needs filled, she is ready to align herself with my trusted Maria. So essentially being a 'maid' mistress isn't demeaning, it is, a step into a power position, and to become the colleague of a true love of mine.
Anja is no fool. She may be all she seems but, I know now to never assume lack of thought in her actions. Pia is just listening and watching the play of minds. Maria now looks at me. She grasps that I am not ready to accept the offer, and then she seems to understand some of the 'why' of it.
Anja, what you have offered is interesting but it will be more difficult to apply to become such a person. Those mistresses who operate far from this house once trained, do not have to deal with the complex sexual relationships inside this house. They simply have to be my bed mates and possibly have my children. If you are to help in the administration of the house, and my life, you will have sex and live with me, and with Maria, and with Zelle, and with Eve, and with Jana, and with Cynthia, and with all the young ones, including Sha! And once you are having relations with Sha, there will be a push, by the young girls, for you to put Brenna, at least, in my bed. Quite honestly, being part of the primary makeup of this house, is far more complex than anything else that anyone will have to do. It is not for most. If you really want this and feel you can do it, the challenge to prove to me that you can do it will be great!
I see Maria nod. She sees and understands the truth of what I have just said. If it hadn't fully been clear to her before, she knows I am not making difficulties just to be difficult. Pia is looking at her mother. I have clearly told her mother, she has a better shot at being accepted for some other position. Does her mother really want this? It is not a glamorous position. Yes, the real power is close at hand but, that power is Maria's. It will not necessarily be her mother's.
Sir, I think I understand. You make these points to me. First for me to think about is my daughters. If I am alone, maybe I will be OK having sex with the little ones, if that is what they want. Di ba? But my children are with me. I tell you before I not want the young ones to have such things happen to them. You tell me, you won't unless I require it. Di ba? I not see that I will ever do that then. But now you show me. Maybe this will happen if I ask for this special position. So you say I should think about this. Di ba?
Yes that was one of the points.
Oh Sir, I know the other points. But to be close to you every day and be at the center of things, I will happily do all that! I think Maria is very nice and I will be happy to be with her. Even Sha, she is a sweet bata2. If she wants me to touch her, I will. I not afraid to be touched by females. That is OK. If Maria thinks the others are OK, then they are OK. If she thinks they are not OK, I not think you allow them to be here!
Maria gasps. Such a thought never crossed her mind but, there is a lot of truth to the assertion. Maria wields more power than she knows. I laugh again, this time at Maria's incredulity. But it also points out how clearly Anja understand Maria's power here.
Yes, you make a good point. But the choice of what you want to do here, needs to be clear to me. I was not considering you for a helper to Maria. Now that you understand the complexities of that, you need to tell me. Do you want to be evaluated for that?
May I speak with Maria privately? Is that a bad thing to ask?
I think it is a very smart request. Go ahead. I will go to my office and check on things. I am getting up when Pia asks, May I come, Sir?
No, Pia. I am sorry but, I will not be with you alone unless and until the matter with your mother is resolved.
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