Seduction

My sister was laughing while I told her what I’d read on my son’s WhatsApp, and I never imagined that afternoon would end with me kneeling in front of him.

The moment I crossed my legs, I already knew the three of them had planned something. What I didn’t expect was how hard it would be to stay quiet all night.

When my mother and her friend showed up unannounced, my boyfriend was still naked in the pool and I was topless. What happened next still makes me smile.

When Daniela asked if she could sleep with me that night, I knew neither of us would wake up in the morning as the same woman who had arrived at the estate.

I’d known Esteban for years, but that stifling afternoon I discovered his house held a secret that would change our friendship forever.

Carlos couldn’t see the half-open curtain. I could. And the blonde watching me from the other side never took her eyes off me either. My body decided before I did.

When she leaned over my desk to show me the file, her skirt rode up two inches. I couldn’t hide a thing anymore. She didn’t want me to.

The doorbell rang just as she finished hanging the laundry. I hid in the bedroom and watched her go answer it wearing nothing but wedges and a smile.

When I opened my eyes at nine in the morning, Daniel wasn’t the only one in bed anymore. And his best friend was looking at me like he’d been waiting for that exact moment for hours.

Daniela had disappeared without leaving me a number. I was still counting the days when I saw her at the café, smiling at him the way she never smiled at me.

I parked three streets away, climbed to the sill, and slipped into the room where she was sleeping with her husband. I only put a finger to her lips.

I walked in looking for a corner where no one would look at me. I looked up from my book when I heard her laugh, and I knew I wouldn’t leave there the same.

When I walked into the bar and saw her at the back, I knew I wasn’t sleeping that night. Three months without her hands weighed more than I was willing to admit.

Catalina came out onto the terrace in a white nightgown, sat beside me without a word, and that night we stopped being just siblings in the house by the sea.

When they knocked to say our ten minutes were up, I was already face down on the artist’s bed, trembling, his body pressed against mine.

When the other students left and the evening light came through the windows, she locked the door and asked me to play for her—just for her.

At three in the morning, Damián was still sunk into my sofa, shirt soaked with sweat and breathing heavy. And I was no longer thinking about anything else.

Diego’s voice in the audio sounded defeated. When I heard her name, I knew he’d been cheating on me from his office for months.

When Matías and I came back from the corner store with cigarettes, Camila and Renata were already too close on the sofa, whispering in each other’s ears.

I'd spent a month watching her nipples show beneath her blouse and pretending to think about equations. That afternoon she complained about her neck, and I knew I had my excuse.