Chapter 1

 

'Oh crap!' I arrived at the gym entrance area already feeling slightly out of breath after racing from the car park in the hope that my appointment would still be open.

I had been meant to meet my assigned personal trainer and start the first of my extensive workouts for the year. But I had completely lost track of time getting stuck at a work meeting. I hoped I had not turned up too late. The signs were not good as I noticed that there was no receptionist behind the welcome desk and there was only a few people within the gym who now looked like they were all winding down and getting ready to go home as I noted what looked like a young group of gym friends packing and zipping up their gym bags.

My new resolution was not getting off to a good start. I had vowed to start regularly exercising and going to the gym to become a new and improved version of myself. Well, at the very least a thinner and toner version of me, someone that Paul would find attractive once again if I got a chance to bump into him.

As soon as I said his name in my head I became frustrated with myself. Not that I had been able to help it; I had only just broken up with Paul a few weeks ago. My emotions were still very raw; I felt both pain and bitterness when I thought about our four year relationship that had ended with him confessing to me that he had fallen against his will for someone else - his work colleague Sue! Or should I now say the whore Sue with her nice and prefect straight hair and thin frame, who had come to dinner at my home several times with her then partner, making me believe that everything was platonic between Paul and herself. I had been so deceived! And all my best laid plans and dreams of getting married to Paul and creating the family I was so desperate to have shattered.

But I no longer wanted to dwell on the past as I banished all depressive thoughts from my mind, I was determined not to give Paul the satisfaction of seeing or hearing about me suffering without him. He wasn't worth it; he was a cowardly cheat who wasn't even great in bed. He had not even been man enough to give me a proper orgasm throughout the duration of our relationship. No, in some ways I was glad to be free of him, to pursue my happiness and excitement where I saw fit - and Sue could have him along with the crap sex!

This new stage of my life had been meant to start today, but it looked like I would have to postpone my new beginning temporarily. I would just have to apologise to my personal trainer for not showing up on time, and with my next appointment I would have to make sure to leave work a lot earlier and refuse to attend any after hour meetings. I sighed, turning away in realisation that I had little choice but to leave the gym when I heard a rich baritone voice addressing me from behind.

'Were you waiting for someone?'

'Yes I was, but...' I stopped my words in mid sentence, I could not believe my eyes. I was talking to the sexy guy who lived downstairs from me in my apartment block. I had been drooling over him in secret for months now, ever since he moved downstairs from me, even using him as an object of my wild fantasies to get off when Paul had not been up to the job.

'But I think I was too late for my appointment with the personal trainer I had booked,' I tried to keep my voice steady, and avoid blushing as I took in his tall, impressive muscular physique, partnered with a ruggedly handsome face that included a proud hawkish nose and the most beautiful of green eyes.

'We've met before haven't we?' He looked me over with interest, making me feel all shy in his presence.

'Yes, we live in the same block. We've passed each other a few times in the hallway, I'm Anna.' I took the courage to extend out my arm and introduce myself officially to him.

'Yes, I remember now, we bumped into each other just last week. Hi Anna, nice to meet you properly at last, I'm Max,' he responded by taking my hand. I immediately felt an electric shock shoot up my arm and butterflies in my stomach as I looked up to meet his dazzlingly smile, and intense looking eyes upon me.