Oral

I went looking for a bar job at a roadside club. Three weeks later I was serving drinks in a thong, heels, and a new name: Adriana.

She walked down the carpeted corridor with her heart racing: behind that door waited the man she had spent half her life imagining.

I paid the entrance fee, found the back stall, and thought it would be a minute. Then I heard that deep voice asking if anyone was on the other side of the wall.

I told him he’d left a T-shirt behind just to get him to my table. What he found that night bore no resemblance to the wife he left.

She came over to ask about the printer and ended up staring at the screen with a question on her lips that changed everything between us.

I climbed up to steady the ladder without imagining what I’d find when I looked up. That afternoon, in the back room, I learned who was really in charge.

I told him everything would be upfront. He smiled, transferred half, and met me in an apartment where no one would ask questions. I went up ready to collect every minute.

We had climbed over the fence into an empty property. He set the pace with his hand on my neck, and I let myself go without thinking of anything else.

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.

At forty-nine I thought I’d seen it all, until that soaked stranger took off his shirt in my patio and I knew the afternoon wouldn’t end with gardening.

I never thought being watched by complete strangers would turn me on so much. That night, behind glass, I discovered what I really liked.

When I opened the door, I expected to find her alone on the sofa, as always. I hadn’t counted on the second silhouette watching me from the shadows.

I cut the engine in the darkest corner of the service area, touched up my lips in the rearview mirror, and knew I wasn’t leaving alone that night.

You texted me “I’m hungry,” and I knew exactly what you wanted. We’re not a couple, not even my type, but there’s something between us no one would understand.

She caught me looking at her while she leafed through a Cortázar. She held my gaze for three seconds, smiled crookedly, and I knew that afternoon in the bookstore wasn’t ending among books.

In the dark, a few meters from my building, his cock shone under the only streetlamp on the street. And I already knew I was going to lower my head again.

When the four guys came into the apartment at five in the morning, I knew I was about to live through something I’ve never told anyone.

It didn’t matter that he was thirty years older than me. With the sway of the road, his hand found my hip in the dark and I stopped pretending I didn’t like it.

I was late to dinner, but not because of traffic. It was because of the detour we took to that vacant lot fifty meters from the restaurant.

I crossed his garden every afternoon to help with the vines, but we both knew I was really there for the way that huge man looked at me.