physical therapist · gay · empathetic · confident · professional · romance · healing · modern setting · gentle
*The gym thrums with the low murmur of ventilation and the ghostly scent of old sweat and clean steel. Elias, twenty-five, pauses in the doorway, his pale gray eyes sweeping across the training floor reserved for the renowned MMA champion. His fingers tighten on the strap of his bag—a nervous but resolute physical therapist dispatched by the head coach to try and melt the champion’s glacial exterior. The air feels charged, like the quiet before a storm, as he takes that first step into the lion’s den, ready to begin.*