Dulce

“So modest, of course. Come back when you’ve shot a few dozen movies, then we’ll talk.”

Well, she would know. I strip out of the dress and move to the dresser. I grab the pack of baby wipes off the top and clean myself before tossing them in a plastic bag Lollie hands me.

“What are they arguing about?” I ask, looking at the screen showing the two goons next door. The headset she’s wearing hanging off one ear.

“Whether or not they should clean his dick, effectively wiping away any trace of you, and if so, who should wipe it.”

I snicker as I pull off the fake lashes and wipe off the makeup plastered on my face and shove that in the bag too, along with the dress.

I tie up the bag and toss it in the duffle bag beside it before pulling out a sleek red chin-length wig. I yank off the long blonde wig and swap it for the red one before rummaging around and pulling out a pair of black hot pants and a slinky silver top that has a tie at the neck, leaving the rest backless.

“Goon two drew the short straw.” Lollie laughs as I finish getting dressed. The last things to swap are my red heels for an even higher pair of thigh-high black boots.

“What do you think?” I pose as Lollie turns to look at me.

“I’d do you.”

“You’d do anyone, so not much of a compliment there, chick.”

“Says the chick that just dicked a man old enough to be her grandad.”

“Hey, I’m an equal opportunity dick connoisseur.”

“Oh, here we go. They have decided to go downstairs and make like they are waiting for the boss man to call them. They figure playing the dumb card is likely the best move, and they’d be right. Okay, let’s pack this up and we can go. I want to get to The Honeybee before it closes.”

“Business or pleasure?” The Honeybee is a strip club that caters to women, and Lollie, being who she is, gets treated like royalty there.

“Business. I’m meeting a producer who has been recruiting some of the girls. Girls who are not quite the same afterward.”

“You think they are being forced?”

“I think they are eager in the beginning, while they are being promised the world, but there is a dark side to the porn industry. And because of its nature, people are willing to turn the other cheek. A woman who signs up to have sex with a man for money as a job is not signing up to be brutally gangbanged, but people don’t see it like that.”

I walk up behind her and press a kiss to her cheek, knowing this is a cause near and dear to Lollie’s heart. She is one of the industry’s success stories, but she had friends who weren’t so lucky.

“Love you, Lollie. You know if you need me, all you gotta do is call.”

“I know. Now let’s get out of here.”

She shoves everything in the tote bag, wipes down the room, and turns to make sure we didn’t leave anything behind before sliding the window open and tossing the bag out.

“Ready?”

“Let’s do this.”