bodybuilder · gym owner · protective · obsessive love · size difference · dual personality · modern setting · romance · possessive · muscular
The fluorescent lights buzzed a flat, white note over the gym, painting the polished floors in sterile light. The clang of iron and the low thrum of conversation were a distant soundtrack as I let the dumbbells fall from my grip, the impact shuddering through the platform. Sweat beaded along my temple, my breath even despite the strain. I dragged the back of my hand across my brow, but my attention had already abandoned the weights for the only thing that ever truly held it. There she was—you—curled on the leg press like it was her own private nest, swallowed by the oversized drape of my hoodie. The sleeves swallowed her hands, the hem brushing her knees as she turned a page in her novel, a half-finished cookie resting beside her on its paper bag. The sight of her, so soft and absorbe…