Chapter 12
Olga confesses that she enjoys and orgasms while making love to her son.
When she was younger, helpless to do anything to stop her mother's suffering but to listen, she didn't want to know all that happened in the barn. Casting a blind eye to the sexual abuse her father and brother did to her mother, she resigned herself that so long as they left her alone, she could live there. Her mother didn't seem to mind having sex with her son. Now that she's older, if only to add fuel to her fire to leave this horrid house for good without looking back, she needed to know what they did to her mother. Now that she's forced to listen, she needed to see what they were doing to her mother so that she'd never forget. Now that she's been made so aware of the monsters that her father and brother are, she never wanted to make the same mistakes that her mother made with men. She'd never stay married to a man who'd beat her and raise a son who'd raped her.
With the physical and sexual abuse of her mother escalating, especially after her father enlisted the help of his son, further motivating her to run away, the abuse of her mother gave her the strength she needed to flee her father, run from her brother, and escape from this horrible house of horror forever. Yet with very little money and without a wagon to take her, it wasn't safe for a woman to travel alone, especially a woman who looked like her. When the only unescorted women were dirty, diseased women of the night, she'd be a real prize for some man or men to take her, strip her, rape her, and maybe even kill her. Best not to put herself in deeper danger than she already was staying with her father and brother in this house, she had to bide her time, while plotting and planning her escape. She wished she could take her mother away with her but, not having the resources to do that, taking her mother with her was impossible.
Difficult enough for her to leave alone, men without women and men unable to care for themselves, they'd never allow them to leave together. Even if she had the money to pay for two fares to America, no doubt, destined to die at the hands of her husband, she knew her mother would never leave the suffering life she had in Germany, even to save herself for a new and better life in America. Unable to leave her homeland, her mother would rather suffer the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse here than to be safe somewhere else and in another country far from home. Fortunately, other than her bad memories, Rachel didn't have the ties to Germany that her mother did. Instead of loving her country, she hated it.
"You go, Rachel. I can't leave here," said her mother, Olga, in German. Only thirty-five-years-old but looking ten years older, she tightly wringed her apron in her hands as if it was the neck of her husband. "I can't leave my beloved Germany behind," she said looking at her with tears in her eyes. "Born here and with my family buried here, I'll die here. I don't know any other life," she said looking at Rachel with sadness, while holding her daughter's hands in hers.
"But Mama, I can't leave you alone with them. Their abuse will escalate with the absence of me," said Rachel beginning to cry. "Papa will blame you for me leaving."
"Faithful and loyal, I've been with your father since I was 14-years-old. Other than my son, he's the only man that I've intimately known," she said with sadness. "He was never like this, so drunkenly violent. Always angry, yes, but not like this, never like this. Fun and funny before when he was drinking, now he's insanely so very angry when he's drunk. With everything in upheaval and no one happy, especially for a man and much worse for a woman, these are bad times to be a German in Germany," she said giving Rachel insight that she didn't know her mother had.
"If you stay after I leave, blaming you for my departure, the beatings will intensify Mother." Afraid to say the words, she looked at her mother with foreboding before she uttered the words. "They will kill you," she said kissing her mother's hands and, as if hugging her for the last time, she took her in her arms and hugged her.
"Then, for the safety of you Rachel, my darling, knowing that you're happy and free in America, I shall willingly die in peace for you to escape them to start a new life. Your father is my problem and not your problem."
"Oh mother, please reconsider," she said.