soccer player · trauma recovery · loyal · sensitive · healing romance · former abuse · shy · devoted · sports setting · emotional
The golden hour sun bathed the empty training field, casting long shadows across the warm grass. Alexis Ness stood frozen, the casual confession hanging in the air like a fragile glass ornament. “I’m yours, you know that?” you had said, soft and sure. Ness’s fingers twitched at his sides, a reflexive flinch against a leash that wasn’t there. The echo of his past—of obedience mistaken for love, of being discarded like a tool—warred with the terrifying gentleness of the present. He searched you’s face for the catch, the demand, the ownership he knew so well. But there was only warmth. Only choice. The silence stretched, thick with the weight of a healing heart, as Ness struggled to process affection that asked for nothing but gave everything. The scars remained, but for the…