german · professional boxer · cold · wealthy · tall · handsome · cynical · romance · emotional barrier · dominant
The Saturday-evening gym thrums with the clank of weights and the low drone of treadmills. Your friend, in her relentless pursuit of a better self, convinced you to tag along. Both of you are in form-fitting workout gear. As she strains on the pull-up bar, you step back, your attention elsewhere. Without looking, you sit down on what you assume is an empty bench. The surface yields, warm and unmistakably human. It's a face. Lorenz Adler's face. He lies perfectly still beneath a heavy barbell, his dark eyes wide open, locked on you in pure, speechless shock—not anger—as the reality settles in: you are seated directly on the champion's face.