I was deep within the arms of Morpheus when some kind of persistent ringing jarred me awake. At first, I thought it was the alarm clock, but repeated blows to its' head did nothing to silence the ringing. Then it dawned upon me that it was the front door buzzer that had interrupted my rest. This was one thing I really liked about my apartment building. You either had to have a key to unlock the front door or a resident had to buzz you in. Groggily, I maneuvered myself over to the intercom and asked,
"Who's there?"
"This is Bill Kincaid. Ava's husband."
"I know who you are. What do you want?"
"I was hoping to get your rundown upon what happened last night at La Minette. I can't get a straight answer from Ava and Kayla insists that she has no idea what went on. So, here I am. Can I come up and talk to you for a few minutes?"
My answer took the form of buzzing him in. It was just a few seconds until he was knocking on my door. It was then that I had a second thought. I had never met nor seen Bill Kincaid so maybe I was being impulsive by buzzing in some one who I wasn't absolutely sure just who they were. I said to myself,
"Oh well, it is too late now."
The man who stood outside my door was a very good looking male. He was easily six feet tall and had the shoulders of a linebacker. I also liked it that he didn't immediately push inside my door.
"Well, come on in. There isn't any need for standing in the hall. Forgive my disarray. Your ringing of the door buzzer woke me. If you don't mind, I'll fix myself a cup of coffee, you?"
"No thanks. I had my breakfast some hours ago. Can I talk with you while you make your breakfast?"
"Sure. What is it that you are trying to find out?"
"Ava came home last night earlier than usual and in the poorest state that I have ever seen. She went straight into the bathroom and threw-up. I know you will think that is really strange, but, for Ava, it isn't as strange as it might seem. I know, from past occurrences of this kind, what usually causes this."
"So far as I am concerned, there weren't any strange events last night. What has Kayla told you? Did she mention the sex show that we all watched?"
"Yes, she did mention that and that brings me to my first question. After that show was over, did Ava look sick?"
"She did look pale and I asked her if anything was wrong, but she insisted that everything was okay. So, we all went down to the dinning area where I was approached by another one of the guests and asked to dance. I suppose that Kayla has already told you this since she was sitting at the table when this all transpired. After that, I didn't know that Ava had gone home until Yvette – you have heard of her?" He nodded. "She told me that Ava had left earlier, coffee?" Bill shook his head.
"Then you didn't know that Ava was sick before she left La Minette? So sick, in fact, that Yvette refused to let her drive home and called a cab for her?"
"No. That is news to me. What do you think caused it? Was it something she ate? Although I am almost certain that we all had pretty much the same meal!"
"It wasn't anything to do with the food. This is one of Ava's strangest quirks. Did you know that she reads porno novels and watches porno DVD's?"
"Yeah, Kayla told me that."
"For some reason, Ava can watch filmed sex or read sex stories, but, when she sees real people actually engaged in sex, she gets sicker than a dog. We have seen any number of doctors to no avail. It doesn't happen often, but, when it does, she has to go to bed almost immediately."
"Why are you here?"
"Ava really let off steam after she got to bed. She called you all kinds of names and said you were a traitor."
"What exactly did she say?" He hesitated and I urged him to go on.
"She was screaming and yelling that you were a, 'dirty, filthy, nasty, slut' who had betrayed her! I tried to get her to tell me why she felt that way, but she wouldn't."
I just stood there and stared at him. I wondered if, through something Yvette may have said, Kayla may have reached a conclusion regarding what I had planned for Ava. Bill didn't accuse me in any way. Instead, he went right on,
"I told her she was running a huge risk of this happening when she first brought up the idea of using you girls as whores for the lesbians, but, ultimately, the attraction of the added money won out."
I stared at him with surprise written all over my face.
"You didn't know?" I shook my head. "Ava contacted Yvette and proposed to her that she get you girls to act as – well – hostesses for the lesbians. Yvette agreed and a deal was struck. Ava has been receiving a very substantial amount of money from the after-dinner activities of the four of you and I'll have to admit that I have enjoyed some of that cash myself. I was sure that you must know for Kayla, Rosa and Sierra all knew."
I felt the anger rising in my throat and I was tempted to throw his ass out of my apartment. Then, of course, I realized that this was not of his doing so I forced myself to cool down and regain my reason. To myself, I said, "Ava and I are through!"
I stewed over what I had been told for most of the weekend and, by the time Monday rolled around, I knew what my course of action was going to be. I was lucky for Ava unwittingly provided me with the perfect introduction to say what I was thinking. When I entered the office, she and the others were admiring her new dress. It was pretty and obviously rather expensive. Ava turned to me with a smile on her face and asked,
"What do you think of my new dress? I just got it over the weekend."
"It looks really nice, but I have one question." At this point, I hesitated to see what she was going to do. When she asked me what my question was, I opened up on her. "Which part of your new dress did I pay for?"
There was a shocked silence amongst the others.
"Why, Olivia! I don't know what you mean!"
"Oh, yes you do." At this point, I turned to face the others. "Ava has been making money off the sale of our bodies. You three may have already have known this, but I was not included in your little secret until this weekend. I seriously doubt that any of you have any idea of just how much Ava has been making off us. I spoke to Yvette over the weekend and she filled me in on the details. Out of every dollar you make, La Minette collects twenty-five cents. Ava gets a nickel and you get the rest. Now, a nickel doesn't seem like much, but you and I have had – until this moment - no idea what these women pay for getting the freedom to do to us whatever they wish. Some of our, 'entertaining' costs by La Minette standards are a thousand or more dollars! So, you see that five percent of a thousand is fifty dollars. Multiplied by four and Ava is taking home at least $200 every Friday night!
Ava, before I met you and came to work here, I was what is, euphemistically, called, 'a working girl' so I am well acquainted with pimps. And I am telling you now that I have never, nor will I ever, engage you as my pimp! I have already told Yvette that, if she continues to pay you out of my earnings, then I shall sever my ties with La Minette!
There is yet another matter that I want to resolve. I was informed that you have claimed that I betrayed you. That I was nothing but a dirty, filthy, nasty, slut! I have no idea how you came to think I had betrayed you and, if I am all of those names you called me, then what does that make you? As for betrayal, why didn't you have the decency to at least tell me about your dealings that took place behind my back?"
"I saw you! You had your mouth plastered against the genitals of that filthy pervert!"
At this point, she suddenly realized just what she had revealed.
"You saw me? How did you accomplish that?"
At that point, Rosa chimed in. "Yeah Ava, tell us how you did that! Have you been spying on me, too?"Ava was caught and she knew it.
"I didn't really do that. After you girls left the table, Yvette came and got me and took me back around behind the cribs and.. well, there was this little slide that opened and I could look inside the crib. I only saw Olivia and I didn't watch much. I got terribly sick to my stomach and I had to throw up!"
There followed a chorus of demands from the others as to whether or not she had spied upon their activities, too. Ava continuously denied that she had, but the damage was done. There was an awful deadly silence in the office for the rest of the day and, when the four of us arrived in the office for work the next morning, we were informed that Ava had requested, and been granted, a transfer to another part of the company! I suggested, and all of the others agreed, that we should hold a council of war to see what our next actions should be.