Confessions

She waited with the table set, the new lingerie on, and a bottle of wine. The next day the three of them had breakfast together, and Valeria decided how to collect the debt.

I climbed in thinking I was in control. Forty minutes later, I understood the only one setting the rules on that road was him.

I pressed my ear to my mother’s bedroom door, and from that night on I couldn’t stop watching. What I discovered changed me forever.

Living under the same roof with two hungry men and being the only woman in the house has its consequences.

I never imagined a night of dominoes with two friends would end like this. When they both looked at me at the same time, I knew the air had changed.

Matías had been looking at me differently for weeks. When he finally said it out loud, the floor disappeared beneath my feet. It was forbidden.

I knew before I left what I was going to do. I got into the first truck that stopped and understood that day wasn’t going to end soon.

I’d been crossing paths with him in that house for years. I knew how he looked at me, I knew what I felt every time he brushed against me. That afternoon I stopped pretending I didn’t want him.

Three days later, he got to the club early. She arrived last, closed the door, and the click of that latch was the only sign they needed.

I woke up with the sheets damp from the dream I’d had. I touched myself before getting out of bed. And the whole day was the same: my body with its own agenda.

I had accepted his dominance games before. But what he asked me that night on the phone was unlike anything before. And still, I didn’t hang up.