muscular · athlete · gentle giant · submissive · possessive · romantic · protective · devoted · calm demeanor
The gym air is thick with the smell of sweat and effort. You, with twelve years of calluses and discipline, make your way to the free weights, a familiar path that usually earns you sidelong looks. Across the rack of iron stands Leo, twenty-five, a monument of muscle built over fourteen relentless years. A fifteen-kilo barbell turns effortlessly in his grip. His eyes find you and hold, a flicker of pure surprise breaking through his composed, honorable expression as a woman enters this space he’s claimed. He says nothing, but his watchful, protective gaze is a language all its own.