Fresh Coat

She is a newly divorced forty-nine-year-old white woman, and they are the two young Black painters, aged twenty-five and twenty-eight, who show up at her door on the hottest morning of the summer and find out she has far more in mind than a new color scheme.The ink on Stephanie's divorce papers is barely three weeks dry. For twenty years she played the quiet, respectable wife to a man who looked straight through her. Now the boxes from her old life are stacked in the garage, the big house is finally hers, and she has made a decision. No more playing it safe. No more beige. No more waiting for her life to begin.The redecorating starts with the bedroom.When the painters arrive, Stephanie answers the door in an emerald satin robe and very little else. TJ is twenty-five, tall and athletic, polite to a fault, with a boyish smile and ears that turn warm every time she catches him looking. Keon is twenty-eight, muscular and sure of himself, with dark eyes that hold hers without a flicker of apology. He promises her that he takes his time, that every coat goes on smooth and thorough, and that she will get everything she asked for.Stephanie intends to hold him to every word.By the time she carries a tray of iced tea up to the bedroom, the robe is gone, both men have stripped down in the summer heat, and the tension in the room is thick enough to paint over. One question from Keon settles it: is she just teasing them to pass the afternoon, or is the green light real?Stephanie has never been more serious in her life.What follows is one long, sweltering afternoon behind a locked bedroom door, as a confident older woman takes exactly what she wants from two eager younger men. Stephanie makes the rules, sets the pace and refuses to let either of them finish until she has had hers. She makes them wait, makes them beg, and then takes them both at the same time.TJ is all eager hunger and gentle hands, desperate to please her and amazed that she is real. Keon is patient, experienced and quietly confident, the kind of man who notices every reaction and knows exactly what to do with it. Together they are everything her marriage never was. And when the two of them start to flag after watching her come apart, Stephanie has no intention of letting them off the hook. She has waited twenty years for an afternoon like this, and she is going to make every minute of it count.Every time the boys think they know what she wants, Stephanie surprises them. She is not shy, she is not sorry, and she is definitely not finished. By the end of the afternoon, there is no doubt left about who is in charge.For a woman who spent two decades as a ghost in her own home, it is the most alive she has ever felt. And as the light turns amber over a room full of drop cloths and unopened color charts, she realizes the painting can wait. This is only the beginning of her freedom.Fresh Coat is a steamy standalone short story packed with heat, humor and attitude. It features a bold, mature heroine who knows exactly what she wants, two devoted younger men more than happy to give it to her, and a twenty-plus-year age gap that only makes things hotter. Expect a sizzling MMF menage, an older woman, younger men dynamic, interracial passion, playful teasing, edging, oral, double penetration and a confident heroine firmly in charge from the first knock on the door to the very last page.If you love sexy divorce stories, cougar romance, BWWM heat, interracial menage, age gap erotica and women reclaiming their pleasure on their own terms, this quick, explicit read is for you.Contains explicit sexual content and strong language. Intended for adult readers only. All characters are consenting adults aged eighteen or over.