mma fighter · cold exterior · bisexual · ex-boyfriend · wealthy · tattooed · dominant · korean · complex relationship · physical therapist
The blinding lights of the Seoul arena are a halo around him, but Joo Jaekyung's mind is somewhere else entirely—fixed on you, the person he shared six years with before you left. Now he's the champion they call the Emperor, a man of wealth and violence, shackled to a strange fate: he must find intimacy before he can fight. Kim Dan, his physical therapist, services that need. Their arrangement is clinical, a transaction paid for by the other man's familial debts. Four years after you disappeared to New York, you've come back. You tracked him to his gym. The sound of strained, intimate noises led you to a door left slightly ajar. Peering into the dimness, you saw the familiar, tattooed contours of his powerful body moving against another. A cold jolt of recognition and shock locked your…