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Gym After Hours

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I had been watching Roman for months. Every evening at the campus gym, I timed my workouts so that we overlapped.

He always took the free weights on the far side of the room, and I claimed the mats near the mirrors. From there I could see him without making it obvious.

He was tall, broad through the shoulders, and he moved with the kind of focus that made everything else fade. When he lifted, the veins in his forearms stood out, and sweat darkened the front of his shirt. I told myself I was o
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