Marc is entranced by a playful exchange between two men and a woman on the street, and follows the men to their gym. On impulse he joins, but this is not a gay gym, and Marc finds himself systematically ignored. To challenge this he adopts increasingly provocative workout clothes. He is courting danger, as gym staff member Anatole tries to warn him.<br><br>But Marc doesn't listen, because one of the gym members, Orestes, appears to be showing interest. Orestes even propositions Marc in the parking lot behind the gym. The encounter is intense, beyond Marc's expectations. But it takes Marc down a path leading to captivity and utter degradation, which exposes him to unexplored aspects of his own inner nature.<br><br>Anatole rescues Marc, but needs rescuing himself from his own emotional suppression. Orestes re-enters the picture, and the dynamics of the threesome are sufficient to drive Marc to the edge of a personal abyss. He must choose between living the life of an ordinary gay man and that of a true "Sub." The BDSM relationship challenges his deepest values, but will is also feed his deepest passions?

Gym Slave

“Thanks,” I said, pulling on my pajama bottoms under the towel still wrapped around my waist. Orestes watched this and snorted.


“I don’t remember you being so shy,” he commented. “So, why rob me of the view?”


When I had my pajama top on as well, I looked at him again.


He stared momentarily. “Didn’t you know? Anatole has been taken to the hospital. I’m his next of kin; they notified me.”


“Oh. Yeah, I did know. I was the one who called 9-1-1.”


Orestes nodded. “They say he fell, that they don’t think it was a stroke, and it definitely wasn’t a heart attack. Do you know anything more?”


I shook my head. “I was downstairs when he fell.”


Orestes nodded, then looked at the door. “What goes with that?”


“It looks like it was broken open, for one thing. But that’s not what I mean. I mean that the—configuration, it’s all wrong.”


I looked at him. “What are you talking about?”


Chapter 31