Page 12 of Hardcore Vanilla
Jake: Definitely. Just finished tiling a bathroom.
Sharon: Ooo, let me see!
Jake: Me or the bathroom?
Sharon: I was talking about you, but I'm not opposed to looking at a good bathroom reno either.
He laughed out loud.
Okay, so she was crude sometimes, too attention-needy, and way too chaotic... but she could also be entertaining as hell.
Jake: Send me a picture of what you're wearing tonight and I'll send you a pic of both.
Sharon: Can't right now, other people around ;) But I can tell you that I'm planning to wear a slutty red dress and some high heels.
Usually, the fact that she would call her own wardrobe slutty would grate on Jake's nerves, but right now... He'd seen her at Stronghold a few times wearing a red dress that had given him a few fantasies peeling it off of her.
Jake: The one you wore last month?
Packing up the last of his stuff, he walked out into the main room of the suite where several other members of his team were working on the kitchen.
"Aren't you slackers done yet?" he asked, teasing.
"Quality work takes time," Gustavo shot back at him, carefully lining up the backsplash tile with the previous pieces that had been taken down. He chuckled. "Not that you'd know anything about that."
"Nah, Gustavo's just slow," Vinnie said as he finished laying the last of the floor tile. Standing to his feet, he dusted off his hands, a look of satisfaction on his swarthy face. He was the head of the team, about fifty years old, and thoroughly enjoyed his job. Jake liked working under him a lot. "I'm done."
"It's not a race, fuckers," Gustavo muttered as Vinnie held up his hand for Jake to high-five, making both of them laugh.
Jake's phone buzzed again. Since he knew they were about to break for lunch - and neither Vinnie nor Gustavo needed help - he didn't feel bad about checking it in front of his supervisor while Vinnie packed up his tools.
Sharon: Yeah that one.
Jake: Wear it with black strappy shoes and stockings and garters.
Sharon: Bossy. I thought you weren't a Dom =P
Jake: I'm not. I just know what I like.
Sharon: Well I guess we'll find out whether or not I'm a good girl or a bad girl tonight ;)
"Oooo, look at that smile. Who are you texting Jake?" asked Gustavo, laughing.
"Must be a new lady," Vinnie said, joining in the teasing.
"Wouldn't you like to know." Still, he couldn't stop grinning as he shoved his phone back into his pocket.
Predictably, as soon as the rest of the team gathered for lunch, Gustavo and Vinnie immediately told them about Jake's hypothetical new woman, which meant he spent most of the meal dodging questions and trying to change the subject. He didn't mind at all. The entire time he had a picture in his head of Sharon dressed exactly how he'd requested.
Heck, if she didn't... Well, she was a submissive. Maybe he'd experiment a little with administering a spanking. He didn't object to smacking her luscious ass a little, even if he couldn't see himself putting her over his knee to do it. There were plenty of other options.
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The decision to meet potential new roommates at a coffee shop near her work rather than at the apartment itself had d been the right one. Kate had insisted, and Sharon had agreed. She'd been pretty lucky in LA when Kate had been the second person to apply, and Sharon had taken to her right away, but having people come directly to the apartment was not super safe or smart. So, she was doing what Kate had told her to do and conducting the interviews in public spaces.
After two in a row this afternoon, she was glad she'd decided to do so. Applicant number one had been nice enough; a young newly divorced woman, although Sharon didn't think she'd be accepting the woman's application. While she had been nice, they hadn't really clicked.
Since Sharon could afford to be choosy, she wanted to click with whomever she found. Actually, she would have wanted that regardless, but she was lucky enough to be able to hold out until she got what she wanted.
