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Maria, why aren't you pregnant? I am inside you more than anyone else here.

Ha, I never let you do me when I am ready.

Really?

Of course! I make sure you have the others when it is their time. There is always someone else.

So I have been upset that Dian was setting my table, or at least trying to, when in at least one way, Maria has been doing this all along.

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Wenelyn stays at the house for five weeks before moving back to her place. Lovemaking with her and Mhae is good but, not out of the normal range. Wenelyn is another adult female with two children who had never had an orgasm. It is beyond me how these things happen but, clearly they do.

Mhae and I enjoy each other. I believe she went home with the knowledge that she is attractive and good at sexual relations. Our relationship is not over and I am looking forward to being with her in the future.

Wenelyn is in an ugly fight with Dingdong's family over the control of the business. The 'note' that Dingdong wrote has not been shown to the family yet but, Wenelyn has prevailed on the pulis to provide her a copy. A will that Dingdong wrote, leaves everything to Wenelyn. His family is contesting the will and the judge appears to be in the family's pocket. Tomorrow, Wenelyn is going to show his family the letter and if they do not drop the suit against her she will release the note to the Malaysian government and give the family a real problem to worry about. The next suit they will have to deal with, will not be in front of a friendly judge.

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Cynthia and Zelle have had to hold off on getting code to Wenelyn until the legal issues are sorted out but, we are not running heuristics for Bayan Na against the data set we have on Wenelyn's company. We are trying to give the company some breathing room.

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Pia and Renelyn are reporting that they are pregnant. Dian is so jealous, that it is funny.

As Anja and Maria are on the same menses cycle, I asked Anja last month, after a conversation I had with Maria, to tell me when her period was over. Anja was more than happy to tell me. I used it to figure out, not only when Anja would be ripe but, when Maria was as well. And then I kept them with me for an entire ten days at just the right time. Maria clearly knew what I was doing by filling her with cum night after fertile night.

This morning she has sort of had enough of this dedication to knocking her up. She looks at me and asks, Why you doing this. I am your maid!

Maria, you stopped being my maid a long time ago. You are a mistress, a lover, a confidant, a housekeeper, a friend but, not a maid. And soon I hope you will be a mother to my child.

Gordon Jameson, you are an evil man!

Oh Maria, how much more evil would I be, if I got Sha pregnant?

You wouldn't!

Why not? You gave her to me.

Ha! Now I know!

What do you know?

You teach me a lesson. Yes, it is an important lesson. OK, Gordon, it is time for my pregnancy. And it is time for Sha's too.

What is the lesson, Maria?

We are yours, Gordon. We are not employees. We are yours. I think I not really believe you before. I think, Maria, he can say all these nice things but, you are just the maid. No, that not true. I am not the maid, I am yours.

If you would have believed me before, you would not have given me your daughter.

Maybe... No. It is right that she is yours. It is right, we both yours. Like Joy and Abbey.

Ahhh. Yes, you are my Joy.

Maria just looks at me. And then she cries before running away.

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Why you make Maria cry?

Oh, Anja, I told her that she and Sha were my Joy and Abbey.

She not know that before?

I think not.

OK. I go and see what I can do.

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I go up to the office. Work calls.

We are about ready to start our GLS activities on Cebu. I expect Cynthia to be gone quite a bit. So far she has been operating under a tourist visa. But we are re-jiggering the staff. I am taking ten of my depot agents and 'giving them' to Cynthia. It will allow her to apply for a SVEG visa¹. Considering what she is doing and how busy she is, it makes perfect sense. She pays the girls out of her commissions, which as things are going, are substantial.

I have been using "depot" staff to do this work but, it really is work to bring Cynthia business. Her staff will produce customers and contracts. My Eve, Giselle and Joo, directly under me, as outside consultants, do the training. By turning GLS staff, into a Cynthia's sales personnel working under commission, and paying her staff out of her commission checks, we skirt a bunch of legal hurdles.

So as we kick off Cebu operations, Cynthia's staff is housed in my depots but working for her.

However, some of my best depot girls are arriving in two days for a few days. We need them here to work through the details of the roll-out. On the top of that list is Janella. I am looking forward to seeing the girl.

We have a new version of the electronic unit we use to monitor trucking activity. They are being installed on a few trucks here so we can debug the equipment before a broader roll-out but, I expect it will be ready for Cebu.

Dian may have been, until recently, far from my bed for a long time but, she is in the office every day and she is here now. She has been good at not mixing business with personal issues and she has been invaluable here physically in the office. By the time I walk in, she has already sorted my email into multiple folders based on the urgency and importance of the matter. I trust her to do this, because she does it exactly as I would. I never have a problem with her choices.

Today she has flagged something I might have missed. There is a large company that is falling on hard times. It owns a large tract of land. Land that will work nicely for us when we need it but, we don't need it now. The failing operation does need it now but, could give it up later. However they need money to cover a bank problem and payroll right now. Exactly how we put this entire picture together, as it hasn't been reported anywhere, is a piece of business savvy that I can't explain without naming sources but, it is Dian who has put the disparate pieces of intelligence together, not me.

We review what we have and I text an individual, who is likely to be the only one to whom we should be talking.

We may be able to help each other. I can cover your shortfall on payroll and BPI matter. Understand you still need the 80 hectares close to Makar but we can make a deal for later as you wrap that up. Interested?

Ten minutes later I get a text back.

Who U?

GLS.

You work for Gordon?

I am laughing as I type.

Yes, I do what Gordon tells me to do.

Where we meet?

Bo's Coffee at SM in 90 minutes?

What you look like?

Pangit Kano. :-) Blue shirt.

K.

We know exactly how short the guy is. What I want is a clear deed to the land now. We can give him a “Permitted Use Of” affidavit in which we will specify he does not have to vacate the land until a date specific in the future but, puts the land in our name now. Because I know what his bottom line is, I know what to walk away from. I get it at the price I want or I don't bother with it. Is the land worth far more? Sure, it's worth triple what I will offer but, he can't sell it now, as he needs it and he has nothing to generate the cash he needs today. This is all Dian. This is why I would just as soon cut off my left nut than lose her.

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I am back from meetings with: my attorney, the guy, and finally, my bank. These meetings are never fun. I sure don't want to ever be in this guy's position. He knows I am stealing the land. He knows I know it. He knows that if he can't meet the payments today he loses not only the land but the entire business. I pretty much have him by the short hairs. There is no assurance that he won't be right back against the wall in a month or two. But if he is, I will already own the land. He tries to squeeze me for four times what he needs. I tell him exactly what I will pay and tell him, if it isn't good enough then we have no deal. He says, no deal. I get up and walk away. I am backing my vehicle out of my parking slot when he texts, OK, please come back.

I do. We agree to the amount, the terms, and the legal language. I call my bank and ask them to contact his bank that there is a deal. We just have to get the paperwork notarized.

Before I left his office this morning, I had our attorney draft the correct document. Without discussion with me, as it was just speculative at the time and something she was tracking on her own, two weeks ago Dian had gotten an unofficial copy of the deed so that we could work up the exact language. She has my permission to do this sort of thing. I don't need to spend time on a dozen snipe hunts. All the attorney needed to do today was put in the date and the exact amount.

I get to my bank and get the cash needed. The guy goes to get the physical title and brings his attorney with him when he comes to my attorney's office. His attorney does a bit of peacock strutting, at which point I announce the deal is off, rip up the agreement I have already signed and walk out the door. The guy is pleading, following me out. I shake him off and get into my vehicle. He screams through the window, I fire the attorney. We do the deal as written.

I turn off the engine, get out of the vehicle and tell him to do it. If I don't see the asshole walk out the door, I am leaving. A minute later the attorney is gone. I re-enter the office, sign the documents, he signs the transfer of the deed and is handed, and I am not exaggerating, a suitcase filled with bundles of one thousand peso notes². The consulting business and GLS has put a great deal of money at my disposal.

As it is, I have lost the whole day to do this. It is dinnertime. Anja asks, Who will you be with tonight?

You and Maria.

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I have not spoken with either of them since Anja said she would talk to Maria, after Maria ran off this morning. This is the last day of their truly fertile days and so I was going to be with them anyway but, I want to know what the hell happened this morning.

Well, why the crying?

You put me ahead of Jana.

I didn't do that alone.

No, I not tell you this!

Maria, I am not talking about you.

Just because others like Dian say it, not make it true! I not ahead of Jana!

Then you will have to convince Jana of that.

What?

You heard me. Jana thinks you are number one here.

Oh no! She will hate me!

No, she doesn't. I told her, to get back in my bed and she said no. She say you are my girl. We talk about annulment but, neither of us wants that. So no annulment. We will always be married but, you are number one.

Then it is Anja and me as the number one because we run the house!

Anja, I love you very much. I think you know this, di ba?

Yes, Gordon, but, I am not number one. I know this. There is only Maria who is number one.

Bakit? I am tumanda³, bobo, and pangit! Bakit?

You are not old. You are not stupid and you are not ugly! Why do you say such things?

Look at the others! Then look at me!

Anja, is prettier than you are. I know. And she is younger than you are. Yes, I know.

And she is smarter than me!

OK, probably. So that is why she should be number one and not you?

Yes!

I love Anja and I know she loves me, di ba?

Yes! That my point!

I mean no disrespect to Anja because I would not have it any other way for any of you but, if something happens to me now, Anja will be OK. She will miss me but, she will be able to go on and do well, I suspect. There are only two of you who would totally come apart should something happen to me. The rest are like Anja and they would be OK.

Now Anja is crying. I look at her and shake my head. OK why are you crying now?

I cry because as much as I want to argue with you, you tell the truth. There are only two. You tell the truth.

Maria is looking at me with real fear in her eyes. You OK? You going to die? Why you talk like that! Don't scare me!

Maria, you just proved my point. You are one of the two.

Who, who the other? Jana right? It Jana?

I look at Anja, You want to tell her?

Ate, it is Alona. You and Alona! Gordon's Joy and Rose. Ate, you think Joy is as smart or as pretty as Cherise, or Jun? Hindi! Or is she as educated and young as Abbey and Mitch? Hindi! Joy is Jake's anchor, di ba? You are Gordon's anchor. Do I understand, Gordon?

Yes.

But, Gordon, there are two others who would be lost without you that you not know.

Who?

Pia and Shamcey.

What?

It true. For them, there nothing else and no one else in their world. I love my Pia but, she no longer mine, she yours in ways that cannot be described. Her pregnancy changes her. I not know how to say this. And little Shamcey's world starts and ends with you. The fact that you ask for her so often the only thing that keeps her breathing.

I think it is going to take a bit for me to process this but I believe the truth of it and for me it fits with how I feel about those two.

Well, now, … I think Maria got my cum last night, so tonight, it is your turn Anja. Maria would you please suck me to stiffness, while I have a chance to kiss your roommate?

Good, get her pregnant! Maybe she will love you harder and become number one!

Jeezus! Maria, why are you so angry that I care about you so much?

I not deserve it!

Maria, I don't deserve any of you. Come up here and let me kiss both of you. It is true, I don't deserve love from either of you.

That does it, she's not going to kiss me now! She goes down on my rod and sucks hard enough to suck a marble up through a quarter inch straw. I gather Anja up and she whispers in my ear. I not know what to do without you either. Gordon, you not know what you mean to us. And then she is kissing me deeply. There is a hunger in her heart and it does not seem to be for sex. I do want your child. Please do this for me. Please. Make me like Pia.

Anja wants to hurry. She wants to complete the act. It's only fair, we can all hug and kiss once the insemination is complete. Cumming tonight isn't seduction. It is insemination pure and simple. The loving can and should happen later. And so I mount this beautiful female and I do my best to make a child inside of her. The act is not as dramatic as it is comforting and assuring. Not all sex is as erotic as it is loving, caring, compassionate and almost quiet. I love these two women. Deeply and without reservation, I do love them. For me, at the end of the day, I am happy to be with them. There was a time I said I could not live without Jana. I guess that is no longer true. Oh, I will never leave her but, I am without her most of the time already.

Zelle, respects, and has deep love and affection for me, as well but, I can see her moving off for any number of reasons. The same is true for Wenelyn, my new addition. I gather Cynthia has wanted me for years and I guess she will never leave me now. I don't know why, it just is but, just sitting beside her is enough most of the time. She will have my child and we will see how that changes us.

Dian I have already mentioned lately. She is too far inside my head for me to understand her, though I continue to try. Eve, dear Eve will be, as a good wife should, with me until the end. She doesn't need me on any given day as much as she needs me to be here. The younger ones I can't understand. Is that a generation gap, or is it the reality that we shouldn't be together at all?

This business continues to grow, continues to place more responsibilities on these females, who until recently had none other than to worry about where the pesos would come from to pay for the rice.

Tonight as I sleep with Maria and Anja. I could not be in a better, safer, and more loving place. I am a very lucky man. Let my warm semen find its way through a fallopian tube and find an egg. Let this be the night.

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We have been waiting all day for the results of the legal conference between the parties in Wenelyn's Mexican standoff with Dingdong's family. At 3PM we get a text from Mhae.

We win. See you tonight. Nanay say we need trucks first thing in the morning.

I text all the depots to send spare trucks and staff to us tonight. We will need them here at first light tomorrow. I text Zelle that we are going to need every bit of spare warehouse space Bayan Na has.

Dingdong's clan do not know of GLS involvement with Wenelyn. I text Mhae back.

Is this private information or is it publicly available?

Announced in open court as an out of court settlement. It is on the news radio now.

I have Dian turn on the news and sure enough it is on and I like what I hear. GLS does regular freight business, no code sharing, with Dingdong's family and has for many months. So we know these guys and they think they know us. I send a text.

News reports you will probably have empty warehouses by tomorrow. GLS needs to expand. Want to do a deal, or you planning on sitting on empty space?

I get a reply back.

You're fast!

We just got a text from the other side saying they need to hire us to move their stuff to their new place. So I ask why. I like taking her money to move her stuff and getting the warehouse for myself.

We only hear the news ourselves now. Yes, we can do business.

They have three warehouses but, only one is used for Dingdong's stuff. They have a little other stuff there but not much. I shoot him a number that covers his exposure in the mess the loss of the case created for them but, is half what the warehouses are worth. Still selling a warehouse is not easy. They might never sell it.

Cash?

Yes, tomorrow morning for a clear title.

OK, we will need time to get our things out.

I have trucks, you want help?

Yes! Sure? When can you start?

Our trucks can be there at 6AM. I need to go to the bank. We can meet at the attorney's at 10AM. You bring the title and I bring the cash. We will have your stuff out ASAP. Which of your other places do you want us to use for this stuff?

I get the answer. It is done.

I text Zelle that she can stand down. No need to use the warehouses.

We still need the trucks and at the same location, we are just taking different stuff to a different place.

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Everyone is at the table for this dinner. Dinner is a celebration for Wenelyn. But it is clear when she walks in the door that she does not look like a happy person. The celebratory nature of the night quickly is dampened. Jana immediately goes to Wenelyn's side and guides her to a chair, offers her friend something to drink. A Sprite is accepted. As thoughtfully as she can she asks, What is wrong, friend? You daughter texts us with very high spirits.

Where do I start? OK, the thing that will cause us to lose the entire business is the fact that they own the warehouse our stock is in and I have no way to get it out. If I don't they will seize it.

Before you go on, I think my husband has news for you.

Oh? You can move our stuff tomorrow? There is a lot of it.

I want to smile but this is neither the time nor the place. We can move it if you want but, we are buying the warehouse. The sale will be complete by noon tomorrow and our people and trucks are moving the stuff that is not yours out starting at 6AM tomorrow. Since we will be there, no one will be allowed to touch your things.

Gordon, you do this for me?

Wenelyn, are you my mistress?

Yes, I am.

Then why ask if I do this for you?

She just looks at me, at Zelle, at Eve, at Janna, and then back to me. She closes her eyes and sobs. The other women in the room surround her, hold her, and console her. Eventually the sobbing comes to an end. Jana looks at her and speaks again. You said there was more.

They were horrible. We bring in a fax machine. It is hooked up. In the end they say they don't believe we will send a copy of the note to the Malaysian government and police. We say OK we give up. You can have the company. We send the fax. They hear it is received. Once it is done, they tell the judge they withdraw the suit and ask the judge to solemnize that the company is mine! He does so, stamps and hands the paperwork to other officials who run out to doubly formalize it.

Jana is crying. Oh my God what did they do to you? You are destroyed!

Well, that is what they thought. But we didn't fax it to Malaysia, we faxed it to my cousin's office in Manila where it was destroyed immediately. Then the company and all my holdings, including my house were sold for one peso. If those fools try to fax something to Malaysia the only connection to Malaysia is their holdings.

Jana looks confused. Gordon, selling the company to Mhae does not fix anything does it? Liability will flow to the family member, right?

Friend, Mhae does not own the company.

Who does?

I wanted to sell it all to Gordon. There is a gasp in the room. But he is not Filipino. So I have my attorney create a new company, a corporation. Gordon owns 40%, Eve owns 20%, Dian owns 10%, Anja owns 10%, Maria own 10%, Jana, you own 10%. The name of the corporation is Family United Corporation. I own nothing other than my place by Gordon's side. The names of the owners are not disclosed in the filing papers. Only the numbers of the certificates of ownership. All certificates are duly notarized and here with me.

There is silence in the room.

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Chapter 36