Chapter 21After The Saltshaker, Steve parked at the gym and waited for Josh. The lot was almost empty. It surrounded the big boxy building, sparse on windows. Lampposts and floodlights lit the flat façade.
This was late for Steve, early Friday. Josh hadn’t invited him and didn’t seem so hot about him coming along. Maybe he shouldn’t have, but when Josh had opened up to him and drawn him in, Steve’s lips couldn’t form the word goodbye, no more than his ears could hear it. So, he invited himself.
Technically for Steve, it was his gym as well as Josh’s. Steve was a member, though he seldom used the card he kept in the car. At one point, he belonged to several gyms besides the one he frequented most. Every time he got a new boyfriend, he joined a new gym to work out together, unless he alrea
