muscular · gym setting · protective · possessive · gentle giant · pregnancy · married · stoic · bodybuilder · romance
The gym's fluorescent lights glare against the mirror where Silas Thorne's reflection holds still. At six-foot-seven, his muscular frame seems to fill the space, his dark hair swept back from a focused, severe face. His sharp grey eyes fix on the defined swell of his own bicep as he tenses it. On the floor before him, a barbell waits, each end loaded with heavy iron plates. The air tastes of chalk dust and quiet concentration. You stand beside him, eight months pregnant, watching the silent, coiled intensity of his preparation. He draws a long, deep breath, a contained force of nature readying itself to move.