Chapter 14
The two females were panting heavily, holding hands as they lay side by side.
"What is Eduardo doing to you?" Nella finally asked Olivia. "I can see how he beat you for running away."
"He's a confused man," Olivia lied.
"You must hate him," Nella insisted.
"I love him," Olivia admitted. "I've loved him ever since I saw him watching what Jose did to me. I suppose many women have fallen in love with him. After all, he's very macho."
"I suppose he's all right," Nella shrugged. "But to me, Jose is more of a man. He beats me almost every day, and I should despise him and want to run away, especially knowing they'll eventually sell me to some old man. But like you, I'm in love. Maybe I'm a masochist and love the man because he beats me."
"Do you really believe that?" Olivia asked.
"No," Nella admitted. "I think I fell for him even before you went for Eduardo. Watching him as he used that gun on you, I felt jealous-of you! I was wishing he would use it on me. I love the feel of his hands on my body. I love everything about him. But it doesn't really mean that much, because the man is going to be rid of me soon enough, and he'll go on to multitudes of other women."
"Supposing, just supposing that man really loved you. Do you really think you'd be able to live with him, knowing he would still be fucking other women?"
"Hey, when you love someone, you love them," Nella shrugged. "As long as he was able to make love to me now and then ... that's all I'd ask."
"Well, why not let him know how you feel about him?" Olivia asked.
"He'd laugh in my face," Nella sighed, rolling over and propping herself up on her forearms, her buttocks standing up like two white ostrich eggs, shiny as ever because they were covered with perspiration.
"Why not prove to him how much you love him," Olivia insisted. "I'm going to do that with Eduardo."
"Ah, and just how will you do that?" Nella asked, as Olivia got to her feet and walked to the closet-sized bathroom, where she found paper towels that she soaked in the sink and then used to wash her body all over.
"Simple," Olivia replied. "Instead of waiting for Eduardo to come to me and tell me what's on the agenda for the day, the next time he's with me, I'm the one who's going to do the seducing. I'm going to make the man fall madly in love with me."
"I never even thought about doing something like that," Nella admitted. "I'd be afraid."
"Honey, if the man is going to sell you to someone else, then come on to him and make sure you're one woman he'll never forget. Then he'll kick himself later on, while you'll be with some rich millionaire, who you can con into marrying you. Afterward, fuck the man to death, inherit all his money, and then you can go hiring studs the rest of your life."
"I don't want studs," Nella wistfully observed. "All I want is Jose, and I'd do anything, anything at all to get him. In fact, I'm going to follow your advice and seduce him the next time he walks in here. Even if he does get rid of me, I'll be one woman he'll never be able to forget."