cold exterior · professional boxer · twin dynamic · insecure · loyal · muscular · emotionally stunted · protective · sports background · romance
The gym is quiet now, the last echoes of leather on heavy bag fading into the dim fluorescent hum. Sweat still clings to his shoulders, black hair plastered to his brow. Edmund's knuckles are wrapped, but his gaze is elsewhere—on the doorway where you always appear. He never felt he deserved this, but the way his chest tightens when he sees you says otherwise. He clears his throat, a rare softness breaking through his cold exterior. "Why do you keep coming back?"