Gym

It was eleven at night, the street was empty, and I decided to take my clothes off right there. I had no idea someone staggering on the corner was watching me.

The two towels on the rack told me I wasn’t alone. The smart thing would have been to leave. Instead, I stayed pressed against the glass.

I climbed onto the bench, pressed my eye to the plastic grille, and recognized her: the woman who had been glancing my way all afternoon.

I never imagined that one night in front of a screen, with my partner’s voice in my ear, would unravel everything I thought I knew about myself.

Through the steam of the sauna, she lowered her eyes toward my towel and smiled, as if she knew exactly what was about to happen between us.

The door was barely shut and inside someone kept saying yes, yes. I shouldn’t have looked, but I stayed frozen in the hallway, holding my breath.

The noise was coming from the gym. Samanta thought thieves were inside; what she saw through the half-open door left her breathless and changed how she felt about her mother.

I watched him train every morning and pretended not to look. Until one day I went over, and that decision led me to the most intense night of my life.

I thought arriving at the dead hour would protect me from their eyes. I didn’t count on them coming in to clean just as I got out of the shower.

I caught him watching me in the hotel gym and knew that older married man wouldn’t stop until he had me. What I didn’t expect was how much I wanted him to succeed.

He thought the locker room was empty when he stepped into the shower. He didn’t count on two strangers watching him, or on how much that look would stir him.

By day she humiliated me in front of her friends; by night she begged me to put her in her place. No one imagined what was happening inside that car.

I was always the pretty, skinny boy with green eyes. Then I walked into a gym and someone looked at me like no one ever had before.

I’d been dry for five years, and my husband had just proposed a threesome with him dressed as a woman. The craziest part: I already knew who to invite.

From the first day she asked me for a photo to brag about me to her friends. I never imagined how far her pleasure in showing me off would go.

For years she told him no to one thing only. One betrayal and one night with the wrong man were enough to change her mind forever.

I’d been watching her train for months without daring to do anything. That night she invited me to her place, and I discovered the shy woman from the gym was hiding someone very different.

I get up early so I can have the gym to myself. But for the past three weeks, there’s been a much better reason to arrive before anyone else: him, and that scandalous smile.

They thought she was easy prey. They had no idea her trained legs could become the weapons that would bring them to their knees.

At the club gym, after the final circuit, Daniela and Roxana discovered that sport wasn’t the only thing they were good at doing together.