The sharp knock on my door at this ungodly hour was truly annoying. It was a fucking Saturday morning, after all. Who the hell would need to call on me at this time....what was it...seven am? Holy smokes! Who knocked on my fucking door at seven am. I did my best not to wake up my recent girlfriend or was that quasi-girlfriend, whatever, my latest, as I got up in my boxers and white undershirt to answer the door. I wanted to let her rest, as one of her less charming quirks was extreme grouchiness when awakened too early. It was part of why I hadn't committed to anything more serious yet, but far from the only motive.
I saw a tall, very cute Latina in a brown UPS uniform with some kind of very large parcel that I definitely didn't order at all. What the hell? I could only guess what this might be, but I played along, just in case. The delivery girl was easy on the eyes in the classic Tejana manner, anyway, her long curls having just enough blonde and red highlights to be fascinating. Her bust wasn't that large or small, somewhere in between, and her legs were frankly to die for in my estimation. Melinda, my latest flame, or whatever, would be green with envy to match her green eyes.
"Are you...Franco De Marco?" she asked me, her name tag reading Yadira, clearly her given name.
"I am. How may I assist you?" I was surprisingly cordial under the circumstances, not wishing to take things out on this girl who was just doing her job.
"Um...well, I got this delivery for you. Please sign for it," Yadira told me, a shy smile crossing her face that yes, reached her soft brown eyes.
"Alright, though I didn't order anything. You're positive that this is a delivery for me?" I wondered now if Melinda had used my name to order something...and maybe my card.
I would have to change some information and confront her if that happened. Then again, it could be my estranged wife Antonia, better known as "Toni," instead. I still hadn't forgiven her for running up so much credit card debt and hiding it from me. This financial dispute was one of a number of flare-ups that ended our three-year marriage before it produced any issue. I wouldn't put anything past her for sure. Our divorce wouldn't be final for another six weeks and that already felt like an eternity.
"Very much so. It's addressed to Mr. Franco De Marco, Esquire. Does that mean that you're a lawyer? That's what I've heard, anyway," Yadira inquired somewhat nosily.
"Yes, I practice various forms of law. Long story on that. I run my own firm, have a few associates, I don't have any partners, and I like it that way. I'm the boss. De Marco and Associates. Any form of law particularly impact your life?" I waxed curious now.
"Um...immigration law? I'm an American, but two of my sisters are Dreamers. You can imagine how that goes. What are your thoughts on that?" Yadira dared to ask me.
"Look, I'm somewhat more reasonable than the wing-nuts on both sides of that issue and others. We have to have a border and that requires some enforcement, and yes, some deportations. At the same time, Dreamers like your sisters only know this country. They are American in all ways but one. There is plenty of room for nuance and middle ground, a happy medium between the extremes. Slogans and soundbites don't generally make for good public policy. Anyway, let's look into it and see what we can do. Now, how about this package?" I now wondered, even as she brought up the first of three large boxes.
"Voila!" Yadira winked at me.
"Oh, my God...three parcels...what the hell?" I was about ready to fucking kill Melanie if this was her doing here.
I signed for the packages and that was when Yadira took out a box-cutter, opening the first package to reveal....a cage. Then I looked inside the cage and there was a woman. What the hell? She had a barcode on her neck, indicating her status as a slave under the new slavery laws. Yeah, the politicians had found an end run around the Thirteenth Amendment, of course. How typical of them, right?
Why wouldn't they? As long as it wasn't racially based, permanent, involuntary, or not based on a criminal conviction or something similar, so far, it held up to challenges in court. I had a sneaking suspicion that some of this was due to conflicts of interest, but I couldn't exactly prove it. I was halfway surprised that someone didn't push to make it gynocentric or a reverse-racist kind of thing in the name of "equity." Then again, I suppose that the greed of the elites dwarfed their woke, identity politics bullshit that was never more than a virtual signal and a smokescreen for their hypocrisy. Also, again, those kinds of distinctions would have led to legal headaches, anyway.
I just never planned on or expected to be a slaveholder myself, even if it was really a kind of indentured servitude. People colloquially labeled it "slavery," because it was very open-ended as to the timetable, no guarantees of release, was often for debt or criminal acts, and was easier to say than "indentured servitude" or "debt-bondage." I waited with baited breath to see who this was...and who sent her to me. This was truly wild, after all.
"So...someone gifted me...a slave, and those other packages are what, equipment to take care of the slave?" I queried, making Yadira giggle a bit.
"Not...exactly," she told me as she cut the next box open and showed me a second cage.
"What the fuck?" I reacted as I saw that there was another girl in that new cage.
"But wait, there's more!" Yadira laughed and opened the third box, showing a third cage with yet a third lady.
"Three slaves? What the hell? How the fuck...who the fuck...why the fuck?" I shook my head with genuine surprise.
"That's not all, of course. Oh, no, here's the package with the equipment and a special letter and envelope, etc.," Yadira told me as she opened that, including a personalized card for my benefit.
It read...
"Dear Frank,
If you're reading this, you've received my special gift to you, one intended to sweeten the pot or whatever you want to call it...to try to...mollify you, to ameliorate things between us. Well, three if you count all three of them. Yes, they are slaves. No, they weren't forced to do this. They agreed rather happily to do it....for their favorite uncle. Yes, in case you didn't notice yet, those are your twin nieces...by marriage....and your sister-in-law, Bianca. Yes, that's right, my nieces, and their mother, my sister, all agreed to do this, quite happily, in fact.
I know that sounds crazy, but if you think about it right, they were all kind of sweet on you. It never bothered me, either. I thought that it was cute, and I was frankly (bad pun, I know) quite proud that my family approved of my husband so much. I think that they also hoped that you would be...a 'good influence' on me, as Mom liked to call you. You know how reckless I can be, especially when it comes to money. I didn't have to force them at all. They agreed to become slaves and thus pay off my debts, with the stipulation that they could select their owner. They chose you, just as I wished.
So, my dear, if estranged husband, you have three new slaves, courtesy of your wife's debts, which are now entirely paid up. You get to keep them for ten years, believe it or not, which is the standard term of debt-bondage, I might add. I really am such a selfish cunt at times, letting them pay my way. I must confess, I won't let them back out of it, though it's too late, anyway. I can be such a royal bitch, a true pain in the pucker. I am, however, hoping that you'll call off the divorce now and let me come home. You won't have to stop fucking them, which I know that you won't be able to resist doing....who could?
As for any other ladies, well, hey, the more, the merrier, right? I'd share you with my sister and nieces, so I would naturally share you with some other, probably basic bitch who grovels to you and isn't some kind of entitled brat like me. Look, I know who and what I am, a fat, pampered ass bitch of Italian descent, just like you, who likes her gelato too much and racks up insane levels of credit card debt. I have my vices and my virtues. My lack of jealousy is a virtue, if you ask me. I never felt much sexual jealousy...not only with you, but with others.
I'll be honest here...I'm kind of a slut. You probably realized that by now. God, I've been your wife for three years, so you presumably know that I cheated on you plenty of times! I like sex, I like food, I like finer things, I like to spend money, especially someone else's money, etc. I know that you finally got around to cheating on me after a while, at least after you realized that I wasn't faithful to you.