PART 1
I'd always wanted to convert the upstairs of our garage into a small apartment so that we could rent it out as an AirBNB. It was silly, we had all this space above our 2-car garage and it was just being used as storage for our Christmas decorations. We're up on a hill, so I figured, if we added some stairs and a wooden deck, and if we redid the inside and added the plumbing for a full kitchen and bathroom, we could have a very nice studio apartment.
My wife is the one with the money, so I had to convince her. She thought it might be more trouble than it was worth, but eventually I got her to agree.
I thought we'd have an extra thousand dollars a month in passive income, and I sat down with Beth and showed her how the space would pay for itself and then start bringing in dividends within a year. I also sold her on the idea of the apartment increasing the value of the house, which it certainly would. That was all it took, Beth loved that house. Her father had bought it for us for our 15th wedding anniversary. Yeah, I know, not very relatable. He's wealthy though, so dropping 1.7 mil on a house for his daughter is not that big of a deal to him.
Beth has a mind for business like her dad and she made a fortune with a chain of hair care retail stores. If you live in the Albany area, you've probably heard of Les Tresses, they were everywhere there for a while, but five years ago she sold it off and made a bundle. Now she concentrates on charity work and she's on lots of boards and stuff.
Me? I raised our kids. We had a very natural arrangement, she made the money, I kept house and got our girls where they needed to go. I know, I know, also not relatable. In fact, it was just about the opposite of the traditional Leave-It-To-Beaver arrangement. But I made peace with not being the breadwinner a long time ago.
Now we're empty-nesters with Hallie off at SUNY and my eldest Gail is working as a paralegal in Philadelphia and studying for the bar exam.
It all happened so fast. My life I mean, not the thing this story is about, although that happened pretty fast too.
I'm 47 years old and look every bit of it. My wife Beth, on the other hand, is a year younger than me but looks a decade younger. She takes very good care of herself. Every morning she takes a class, Yoga, Gyrotonics, Pilates, whatever. She likes to bike when the weather is good, and she even ran a half marathon last year. She also gets her hair done every other week and has a regimen of creams and lotions that she's been doing for years--and it's all worked. She's a knockout.
In pornography terms, the word MILF suits her just fine. She has large natural breasts and a slight tummy that looks proportional with her body. She's got wide hips and a round ass. I guess you can tell from that description that I'm still very hot for my wife, even after 25 years of marriage.
I know what you're thinking, get to the good stuff Jay! Okay okay, here it goes. I've never written anything like this before, so please bear with me...
How It Started:
The contractors we hired for the garage job were very good looking twin brothers. I don't usually describe guys as good looking, I generally don't notice what a guy looks like. I mean, I can tell if someone's ugly, but I don't go around thinking, ooh that guy has chiseled features, or wow he must work out or anything like that. I usually only realize a guy is good looking by how other people act around them, but with the Sutton brothers, even I noticed.
They looked like freaking movie stars. Not modern movie stars either, they looked like they could star in westerns from the fifties or something. They were tall and rugged, with sandy blonde hair and wide shoulders. Their arms bulged with muscles, but not the kind you get from being a gym rat, the kind of muscles you get from doing physical labor.
These were the type of guys that, given an ax and a couple of saws and a hammer, and they could build you a house.
At our first meeting, Beth and I explained what we were after and walked around the garage with them and talked mainly about the budget, and when they left in their trucks, we just looked at each other and burst out laughing. "Those two can't be real!" she said.
"When they first got here, I thought you were punking me and they were going to start stripping!" I said.
"If only!" my wife said.
I laughed it off. It was funny, and I wasn't the jealous type or anything. But it was unusual for Beth to talk about how a guy, or guys in this case, looked. The bid they came in with was actually a little under what we'd budgeted, so we went with the Sutton twins. They said they'd start work a week later.
That weekend we had lunch with our friends, the Ryans. They're a married couple like us, but their kids were a bit younger. I mentioned that we were getting our garage done and Malik asked who we'd hired.
When I said the Sutton brothers, Tam, Malik's wife, chimed in quickly. "Oh the Suttons?" she let out a whistle and looked at Beth, "girl, have you met them yet?"
Beth just laughed.
"What?" Malik asked.
"They're um... Handsome guys." I said awkwardly.
"Handsome?" Tam shook her head. "That's not the word. Those boys are fine. No, they're not even fine, they're foine." She looked at Beth. "You know what I mean? Foine."
Malik looked at Beth questioningly.
Beth nodded. "Foine." she agreed.
"They came in under budget and I heard they do good work." I said.
"Yeah I heard they do good work too." Tam said.
Beth laughed. "Oh you're wicked."
"They're wicked, I've heard stories hun..."
"No, but it's going to be good to fix up the garage finally." Beth said. "Jay's been talking about it for a while now, so I'm glad we're finally doing it."
My wife had deftly changed the topic, but I wondered if she would've pressed Tam for more info had they been alone.
*
When our twin contractors first started, I couldn't tell them apart. But once I'd talked to each of them a few times and gotten to know their slightly different personalities, I figured it out.
Lance's face was slightly rounder and he was more upright and stiff. Anthony was more angular but had a more slouchy relaxed posture. Lance was more formal, Anthony was a bit goofy and quick with a wide smile. They both worked very hard.
In fact, on the second day, Beth commented that they were working too hard. I noticed her looking out the kitchen window for the second time in one night. "Are you checking out our contractors again?" I asked.
"It's after six!" she said. "They got here at eight in the morning. They're machines!"
"They took a lunch break." I said.
"It's hot out there too," she said. "They're all sweaty."
"Bring them something to drink." I said. "There's a six pack in the fridge."
She seemed to think that was a good idea. She took the beer and left and I watched out the window as she approached the sweaty muscular men. I was really just casually looking out the window when a very unexpected feeling came over me.
I think it was the way Lance looked at her. She was wearing a button-up cream colored top with a thin white bra under it, and I'd noticed earlier in the evening that the outline of her nipples was visible. She was also in yoga pants that showed off her amazing ass.