Chapter 11

Sophia is their next interview and both Robert and Samantha can’t stop staring at her. She is a redhead bombshell with curves in all the right places. She has confidence and seemed to flirt just a little with both Robert and Samantha as she walked into the room.

Her gaze was intense and Robert found himself needing to hide a hard-on as Sophia’s eyes made contact with his. The whole day had turned out to be very arousing; he wished he had worn some more supportive pants to hide his reaction to all these women.

Although Sophia appeared to be a shy, quiet girl, she had answered her sexual questions very openly and seemed to be interested in some of the things that Drake also liked. Sophia also made eye contact with Samantha, which was something many of the women struggled with. It was a huge positive in Sam’s mind that Sophia was confident enough to actually look at her.

“Did you have a good evening? Were you able to explore the town at all?” Samantha asked Sophia.

“Yes, I went to dinner across the street. It was really nice, thank you.”

Robert thought he caught a glimpse of Sophia as she looked at him, but then she looked back to Sam very quickly. It wasn’t a regular glance; Sophia looked at Robert with an eye of desire. He hadn’t seen a woman look at him like that in a very long time and couldn’t figure out why Sophia had. She was a very attractive young woman and not the type of woman he would have even dated when he was on the market. He would have loved to have dated someone as sexy as Sophia, though.

There was something about the way Sophia held herself that was so sensual. She rubbed her ankles together slightly; she bit her bottom lip every now and then; both Samantha and Robert noticed.

“Where did you grow up and how did you end up running a clothing store in Chicago?” Samantha asked.

Sophia slowly bit her lip again as she contemplated what she wanted to say to them. She had lived a rough life and it wasn’t necessary to share all of her history with people. In fact, she hated to share any of her history at all. Sophia was quiet about her past and thought diligently about the best way to describe it to her interviewers.

“Growing up was difficult for me. I felt out of place from a very young age and always wanted to fit in. I found fashion when I was a teenager and started to work at the clothing store that I now own. It was my outlet and my place of serenity when life got crazy. I valued every moment I got to go to work. I learned so much growing up the way I did and I really wouldn’t change any of it.”

“Did you grow up poor?” Robert asked.

It was a reasonable question. Many of the women they interviewed had grown up with very little money and now had multimillion dollar businesses. It certainly wouldn’t keep a woman from being considered to date Drake if she didn’t have much money. Robert thought he had read that Sophia’s clothing business was pretty small and didn’t bring in much net income each year.

“I wouldn’t say poor. Both my parents worked, but we just never had money. My father struggled with gambling and my mother worked hard to make the money that was left last for the month.”

What Sophia didn’t share with Samantha and Robert was how many nights she had gone to bed hungry because her father had gambled away their grocery money. She didn’t talk about the reason she had a part-time job the second she turned sixteen was so she could afford to buy groceries for her mother and herself when her father didn’t show up for days at a time. Sophia didn’t feel it was necessary to share all those details with them.

As they went through the list of rules, Sophia understood them and was more than willing to sign the non-disclosure agreement regarding them. Rules didn’t bother her, in fact Sophia felt comforted by rules. Probably because she had spent so much of her life without them and the order that came with rules was very comforting to her.

“Rule number three is that you will not disclose the details of this game to anyone at anytime,” Samantha said as they checked off each rule from this list.

“Does that mean forever?” Sophia had to wonder.

Forever was a really long time. It was hard to imagine that was even a plausible rule that anyone would be able to enforce. How would they know if anyone actually did talk about the game, unless it became the news or something like that?

“Yes Sophia, that means forever,” Robert responded. “That means even if you and Drake end up together, have children and are there with your grandchildren, you are never to talk about this game or how you met.”

Sophia obediently nodded her head in agreement and they continued down the list of rules. One by one, Sophia initialed next to each of the rules and attested that she understood them and was willing to abide by them.

“Can I ask a question?” Sophia said as she looked Robert directly in the eyes.

“Yes, of course, you can,” Robert responded.

“Does Drake like anal sex?”

Robert’s eyes almost bugged out of his face and he turned to Samantha to let her respond. Robert was not comfortable with all the sex talk that had happened so far, the last few days and he certainly couldn’t talk about anal sex with a gorgeous red-haired woman who flirted with him. He immediately refused to look back at Sophia and instead let Sam answer the question.

“Drake is an open man. I’m sure you will be able to discuss any of your sexual desires with him. I encourage you to talk to him and ask him yourself,” Sam said as she stood up and motioned for Sophia to do so as well.

Samantha escorted Sophia out of the room and turned back to Robert and shook her head yes. They were definitely going to pick Sophia. Any woman who eagerly wanted to talk about anal sex was going to be a good match for Drake. He needed a hot fiery redhead in his life. Samantha couldn’t wait to see his response when she asked him if he liked anal.

“Thank you for coming, Sophia. Stay close to your phone tomorrow. We will call you in the morning and the finalists will be moving into Drake's house by the afternoon.”

“Thank you for the chance, Samantha, Robert, it was very nice to meet both of you,” Sophia grabbed Samantha’s hand and shook it delicately, seductively, slowly.

As Samantha went to grab the next girl, she couldn’t help but think that Sophia was going to be much fun for Drake.