Chapter 19
Of necessity, it was a small wedding. The official honeymoon had to wait a week while the two brothers finished with the four other teenage girls who had come with Nella and Olivia. Olivia proved to be a sharp bargainer, and after discovering who was in the most dire need of a woman, and which of these men was willing to pay the most, she managed to get Eduardo fifty percent more for the four than he had expected, somewhat making up for the loss of money he was unable to receive for not selling her and Nella.
Nella became the overseer, and Olivia the bookkeeper, and it soon became apparent to the two Blass brothers that the women would save them considerably more money than they would have ever gotten for having sold them.
Olivia became pregnant first, and Jose smirked to himself, certain the fact that he gave her an aspirin rather than an "after" contraceptive pill after sandwiching her with Eduardo was the critical factor. He never told Nella.
When the child was born, a girl, it was named, appropriately enough, Josefa. Less than a year after that, Nella gave birth to a girl, and she named it Olivia, after her sister-in-law, and best friend. Neither girl gave birth to any sons, yet in future years, their daughters would run the slave-trade business as well as their fathers had, dealing in male slaves as well as female slaves. But neither girl would fall in love with any of the male slaves. Unlike their parents, they were less emotional and far more practical.