Chapter 12
Nella was kept away from Olivia, now. Eduardo didn't want any of the women aware that Olivia was no longer one of them. So she was given a room in another part of the house and told to remain there when the two brothers had to deal with the other five girls.
Eduardo took one look at the lash scars on Nella's body, and he cursed out his brother, damning him and snapping that the man had better learn to use a strap more judiciously. It would take Nella at least a month, perhaps longer to totally heal with no scars. If she had any scars at all, her value would depreciate considerably. As a result, Nella opened one or two of the scabs on her body, and small scars began to form. When Eduardo learned of this, he insisted his brother punish Nella, and Jose took the strap to her again, and more cuts appeared, this time in more visible places, including one on one of her breasts.
Disgusted with Nella's unwillingness to participate with him and the fact that she willingly gave herself to Jose each time the younger brother decided to "teach" some of the finer points of fucking, Eduardo had more sense than to come down on the blonde. As long as she responded to Jose and did whatever the younger brother instructed, Eduardo was content she was learning. Besides, the older brother had four other women with which to contend, all of whom were too frightened to argue with him. Too, at nights, he had to save something for Olivia, whom he was beginning to realize was more special with every passing day. She, too, had to learn, but now she was learning willingly, and as a result was so superb when it came to making love, tired as Eduardo was at the end of each day, he managed to always have enough strength for this woman who would shortly be his wife-once he had sold off the others.
But Olivia was worried about Nella. She didn't want to see the blonde go. Oddly enough, she would be the one responsible for Nella's next bit of training, because on occasion, some of the customers bought more than one woman, and the men, for some reason, always seemed to love watching women perform lesbianically. Had they caught their wives with some strange woman, they would have screamed their heads off. But since both women belonged to them, the men who bought them often felt it was all right for these women to become involved with one another.
Olivia was listening to a discussion between Eduardo and his brother about a week after she and the other girls had arrived there. The brothers usually talked in Spanish, but for some reason Jose was insisting on speaking English. As a result, Eduardo responded in English without thinking.
"The blonde woman, Nella, she should be learning to please a female, too," Eduardo was saying. "I think it only right you begin her training tomorrow, hermano."
"She refuses to have anything to do with the other four," Jose argued. "After all, we kept her locked away from them all week, and when she saw how easily they capitulated to anything we wanted, she felt disgusted. Too, the other women feel distaste for her because of the lash marks on her skin."
"She must learn," Eduardo insisted.
"My love," Olivia broke in, at that moment dressed in a white halter and white shorts. "Nella and I ran away together. We became friends. Perhaps it might be a good idea if I assisted in this."
"No," Eduardo snapped. "This is something I will not allow. In front of that blonde woman and one other woman, as well as myself, you were seen being made love to by my brother. I will not allow my woman to be involved with yet another woman, a woman who is to be sold as soon as all those lash marks heal properly."
"I don't think you understand," Jose snapped at his brother. "My feelings for Nella are like yours are for Olivia. Yes, you saw me make love to Olivia, and yet you wish her for your woman. Well, I know you made love to Nella, but I want her for my woman. I don't care about the profit. There will be other golden-haired women, and a great many more profits to be made. I want Olivia to make love to Nella not because Nella should learn to love another woman, but because we are all going to be family. Though it would be unmanly to even think of you and I making love to one another, brother, there is nothing wrong with our women loving each other, especially since we both know you would never again let me touch Olivia."
"Do you really think this Nella loves you?" Eduardo asked, "or is she doing this to escape what we originally had in mind for her?"
"I have watched them when they didn't know I was looking," Olivia told Eduardo. "She does love him, but she is too proud to come out and admit as much, just as I was too proud until you told me you loved me; but put her to any test, and I'm sure Jose will agree to it. If she passes, then you must permit her to be Jose's woman."
"What you say makes sense," Eduardo nodded. "Very well, she does not know you are my woman. She, like all the others, believes you are still being punished for having run away, segregated, as we have kept her segregated. Go to her, but do not tell her you are mine."
"I won't," Olivia agreed.