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You don’t know the half of it, wife.

And with that, Joshua and Ana Fe embraced. It was not a formal embrace; it was one of true and deep caring. It lasted minutes. At some point in the embrace, Joshua reached out and brought Mary into the embrace. Joshua’s longing was for the two of them, and while the feelings might be differentiated, they could not be separated. What could be said of one of the three embracing might also be said of the other two. The absence had been more difficult than had been expected. The reuniting was sweet.

If there was any doubt in Arlin’s and Mhitze’s minds about Joshua’s relationship with these two women, those doubts were now resolved. There was love here. As the embrace finally loosened a bit, Ana Fe spoke.

Joshua, your choice of the two girls was good. She winked at the two girls. They are good girls, respectful, pretty, and hardworking. I like them. Would you like to add them to our family?

The glance between Mhitze and Arlin turned from joy to one of pure fear. For the first time they became aware that Ana Fe had not discussed her actions with Joshua. Their assumption that all was resolved was premature. They stood in a panic as Joshua spoke.

My love, there is no way to add them to the family. They are not your daughters.

It was Janna who spoke ahead of her mother, They are! They are our sisters!

Joshua shook his head and with a somber countenance spoke, It is not possible child, though I wish it was.

Ricca’s eyes were wide as saucers. She was frozen in place. But Janna was animated, and not willing to accept Joshua’s verdict, Tell him mother! Tell him it is possible.

Joshua's gaze moved from Janna to Ana Fe. Clearly, something had transpired. Why did Janna think it would be possible? Why had Ana Fe even asked the question? Joshua waited for his future wife to speak.

Langga,¹ Joshua, please not be angry with us. Janna is correct; it was possible. Now, it is not only possible, but, Mahal, I acted without your permission and it is done. They are legally my daughters. I have their legal birth certificates with me proving that they are mine. I have five daughters, Joshua. Please do not be angry with me. I know you want them, and I give them to you. You are going to be a very busy man. OK?

Joshua looked from Ana Fe to Mhitze and Arlin, and with a simple gesture, bid the two girls to come to him. He waited while they approached. Standing in front of them, he grabbed one of each of their hands into his hands before he spoke.

I know your real mother is dead. Are you two able and willing to accept Ana Fe as your true mother from this day forward?

Two sets of eyebrows went up twice.

If you become part of this family, it is forever. Is that what you really want?

Two sets of eyebrows went up twice.

You understand that you will be leaving the Philippines?

Two sets of eyebrows went up twice.

You understand that you are going to be my sex partners, and that there can be no other men or boys in your life?

Two sets of eyebrows went up twice amid giggles.

Then it appears to be done. You are now and forever part of this family. When I marry your mother, you will become my stepdaughters.

It was Ricca who spoke next. Can we eat now? I’m hungry!

Supper was good. Arlin’s afritada and her adobo both won praise from Ana Fe, who informed her that this was a rare case where the daughter was going to have to teach the mother how to cook! Considering Ana Fe was herself a very good cook, Joshua knew the compliment to be high praise.

After supper, Mary, Arlin and Mhitze cleaned up while Janna and Ricca started their homework. Joshua and Ana Fe sat down on a couch to discuss the details of the week just past.

It took a while even to recap both tales, and from Joshua it included the details of the correspondence with Joydee. When all that had been done had been described, Ana Fe had a question. Mahal, what do you want to do about Joydee and her children? After what you told her before, how can you turn your back on them?

Sweet Ana Fe, there is nothing I can do for the woman other than break her heart. No matter what I do I will break her heart. I certainly do not need four more females in my life! I already have the six of you. I can’t bring them to USA. I am not going to stay in the Philippines longer than it takes to bring you to the USA. I am not going to establish a family here and a family there — shuttling back and forth between them. I could not afford the last even if I thought it desirable. I just don’t see a way forward.

Joshua. Mary and I talked. I think there may be a way, but I am not sure I want you to take it.

Then why do you mention it?

Husband, and you will be my husband soon enough, I will never lie to you. If I start lying now it would never be a good marriage. Is that not so? You tell me the truth about the woman. You do not hide anything from me. So I do the same with you. Besides, I say I am not sure I want you to take it. Mary tells me how it can be done. It would mean we would have to live here for two years before we go to the USA. If we decide we do not want the woman with us, then we go to the USA without her.

What if I become fond of her and you decide you don’t want her?

We can deal with that if it happens.

Do you really want to delay going to the USA?

Once we are married, I am not worried about that. It will be OK.

I guess the first step will be to meet her. But why do you think adding four to six is such a good idea?

I don’t Mahal. But I am also sad for this woman. What if it was she, who had found you first? What if it had been me asking for consideration?

I see.

You will write this woman?

No, Ana Fe, you will text her. She needs to understand that it is to you that she must report and to you she must look for acceptance. I have her cell number. You can text her from your cell.

OK, give it me.

And with that, two cell phones were side by side and a number copied. The task completed, Joshua got up as Ana Fe texted Joydee.

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The cell phone chimed notification of an incoming text message. The sending phone number was unknown. She opened the message on her old Nokia phone.

[In Tagalog and translated to English²]

Joydee - This is Joshua’s Ana Fe. We want to meet you when we come to Manila this week.

Thank you very, very much Ma’am. Why do you agree when Joshua say no?

I was gone for a few days on an errand. Joshua tells me what he has done, I appreciate it, but think we cannot do that to you. ... I explain it to him and he says OK.

Oh, Ma’am. Thank you so very, very much. You are our savior. You must be a very, very good woman to do this for us.

Joydee, understand that there is no promise to you. Only that we agree to meet and see if we can make it work.

Yes, Yes I understand! You will see. We will be good to you Ma’am. You will see.

Is it OK Po, if we keep in contact and get to know each other?

I think it is a good idea.

How many daughter you have?

Five.

Five? Truly? And Joshua loves them all?

Yes. All of them and me.

He is truly able?

Haha, yes! very much so.

Why he tell me to go away before?

He not see a way to have you stay with us. And so he thinks all he will do is make a bigger mistake to give you hope.

But you know a way?

Yes. I think so. Tell me, are you ready to give your daughters to my Joshua?

Yes Ma’am. They are ready too.

OK, we will see you on Thursday morning.

Yes Ma’am.

Joshua had already sent the plane’s arrival time before he had said they should stop. But Ana Fe gave it to her again before ending the texting.

Mom, who was that?

That was Joshua’s fiancée. She says she wants to meet us later this week.

Why?

I am not completely sure but I think it will be OK.

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Just so there is no confusion, Ana Fe and Mary will be with me tonight. No morning surprises! You girls can work out your own arrangements.

That being done, Arlin paired with Janna and Mhitze paired with Ricca. Janna asked Mary if she might use her bedroom. Mary gave her younger sister a curious look but agreed to the request.

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Arlin was not surprised that Janna wanted her. Arlin wanted Janna. This being a school night, they had to be quick about it. On her way to the bedroom, Janna lifted two eggplants from the kitchen counter.

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Ricca and Mhitze were not so organized. For Mhitze this was a special night. She had, in the space of hours gone from being an orphan to being adopted into a family. She had within hours gone from wondering if her good luck would last another twenty-four hours, or two weeks or a few months, to a lock on forever. She had a new middle and last name. The bargain to be safe for a few days was over. Her relationship with Joshua was more like Ricca’s now. Mhitze had a future and if truth be known, it was Ricca who decided early on that there had to be a way for them to all live as sisters. Mhitze’s love for her now younger sister knew no bounds.

For her part, Ricca was enamored by Mhitze’s beauty and grace. Both girls, once in the bedroom got stripped down and jumped onto the bed. Ricca climbed on top of Mhitze, her knees on either side of the older girl’s hips, brought her face down to the other’s and started kissing her. The kisses were of a lover, not a sister and they were met with the same intensity by Mhitze. Ricca’s body slumped down over Mhitze, arms and legs entangled as feverish touching and kissing continued. Each girl was grinding her own pussy, on the thigh of the other. Slowly and over time, their bodies gyrated into a sixty-nine, each licking, sucking and invading the other’s pussy by tongue.

The intensity, the passion they felt was one that was hard to explain to anyone whose world is stable and safe. This was a release, a release from the fear of loss, a release from the pain of separation, a release from the fear that all that they were living was a dream. It was real! For Ricca, it was a release, from the terror, of watching her new friend and lover, being thrown overboard. Their lives would be stable, loving and intertwined.

Safe… they were all safe.

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Arlin saw the eggplants and smiled. [From Cebuano] You plan on using them both of them on me, or do we share?

Janna just smiled at her older sister and lover.

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The master bedroom was not a lonely place tonight. As Ana Fe and Mary got ready for bed, Joshua was an audience of one. He watched these two beautiful women as they, without ceremony and without inhibition, readied themselves for his bed. One of these women was enough to captivate him. Watching both of them, was an experience that Joshua had no words to describe. Being a ‘lucky guy,’ was beyond being a silly thought at the moment. The carefree joking, teasing, and playful banter between the three of them was indicative of the bond that had formed.

Mary slid in on one side of the bed and Ana Fe took the other side. The banter and teasing continued as they settled in. Joshua, however, had a serious question on his mind. With an arm around each them, he asked Mary, What is this plan you told Ana Fe about, that will allow us to add Joydee and her family to our family? I don’t understand.

Mahal, she does not become part of the family. We add her as an employee to the family. We hire her as a nanny, maid, and assistant. You pay her a salary and help her secure some small amount of property here over the next two years. There is a Visa process for such people and we will be able to bring her to the USA as a family servant. It is not an immigration visa, it is a temporary work visa, an H-2B. Once we bring her to the US, if you want her girls and are willing to let her go to another man, she will be able to file for Immigrant status and her girls can stay with us. Mom says she is pretty. So if she can find a US boyfriend there to marry her, it will all work out. And as one of Mary’s hands cupped his balls and the other stroked his cock, she asked, OK?

Ahhh, yes, OK…

Ana Fe’s mouth met his. He pulled her in tight while Mary scooted down on the bed to take his member by mouth.

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The eggplants lay unused on the nightstand. Janna and Arlin both still had their bras and panties on. The lights had not been turned off. None of that mattered. Each was in the other’s arms. Their tongues swirled around the others mouth. Their legs were intertwined. Their bodies rocked back and forth on the mattress. Every once in a while the kiss would break for a gasp of extra air before resuming. This was love, not sex — not now at least. Their hearts were overwhelmed with emotions as they clung to each other as their minds and bodies acclimated to the new reality.

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Joshua mounted Ana Fe in missionary position. Mary was fondling her mother’s left breast as she lay on her side. Ana Fe was more than ready to accept the cock inside her. Her pussy was dripping and even before he had a chance to mount her, the sheets were already wet. Joshua slid into the tight pussy of a woman who had given birth to three physical babes and two more virtual tykes. There was friction on all sides of his dick. Ana Fe’s legs did their best to clamp around her man. She bucked her hips up to greet him with each pump of his hips.

Mahal, give me a baby, a baby… for Joydee to care for! Give me a baby!

There was no condom here. Joshua was doing all he could to make Ana Fe’s wish come true.

Give mom a baby. Give me one too. Fuck us both and give us babies. Give us babies. Babies. Babies. Fuck us good.

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In the small one-room Pasay apartment, it was night and the room was illuminated by a single naked light bulb. Joydee and three daughters sat grooming each other. Nails, pedi and mani, were perfected and painted. Outfits were repaired where needed, washed and pressed. In thirty-six hours, they would be meeting Ana Fe and Joshua.

It is hard to imagine four more lovely females anywhere in the Philippines. Still, things must be perfect. They had almost no money, and what they did have they saved for the Jeepney to take them to the airport. Once they got there, if Joshua didn’t pay for the transportation they would have a very long walk back home. They had no reserves. There had been a long string of bad luck. Now they were just about out of luck. Their one last shot, at staying together as a family, came down to Ana Fe and Joshua. Every one of the four was aware of that. Every one of the four knew what they needed to do. As they got ready, Joydee remonstrated with herself once again, if only she had answered Joshua’s email sooner. If only…

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Chapter 18