Couple

Natalia only wanted to get waxed before going to the beach. She didn’t expect the hotel beautician to be so striking, or what she’d find under her robe.

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We’d been married for twenty years, and then she started going to the gym, changing her clothes, checking her phone in the bathroom. Something was off. I decided to find out.

The first time I put on her lingerie and looked at myself in the mirror, I didn’t know whether what I felt was shame or something completely different.

I knew exactly what would happen when I entered that room with him. I knew it, and still I closed the door. My husband was away, and there was too much tequila in my veins.

We were sworn enemies since we were five. No one would ever guess that the girl who made my nose bleed would also be my first woman.

When I reviewed the footage from the cameras she didn’t know existed, I saw my wife with him. In our bed. And instead of getting furious, I felt something dark I hadn’t expected.

He entered the cave thinking of war. The seer awaited him with his queen’s face, her gown barely covering her body, and a promise in her eyes that was more than a vision.

When I lock the door, I open the drawer, take out the perfume he chose for me, and become who I really am. Only he knows.

To the world we were two friends at the bar. Only I knew I had a black thong under my joggers, and that he knew it too.

I’d spent years watching other people do it on screen. The first time I touched a real girl, I understood no video prepares you for that feeling.

The image was crystal clear: her lying on his lounger, in a bikini, with a smile that wasn’t for me. What came next left me speechless.

The hot water reached our hips when her hand brushed mine by accident. Or that’s what we both said.

When she came back from the bathroom without any panties on, I knew that night we were going to cross a line neither of us would want to erase.

We were two women in the same bed, my husband was sleeping on the floor, and I’d spent years wondering what it would feel like to touch another woman’s skin.

When she came in soaked with her friends, I knew that night was going to wreck all my plans. And when she called me by name, I understood the past never really disappears.

We were a married couple used to sharing everything. When Marcos arrived from tour with that same old smile, we knew dinner would have to wait.

The first night I went out without her, I ran into Lucía, my longtime ex. And she knew all the right friends.

He’d been waiting for me for years and I didn’t know it until it was already too late. When he confessed at the end, I understood why everything had felt so different.

That night at the Pinamar restaurant, Valeria learned that a big city is really just a very small town.