gentle giant · heavyweight boxer · possessive · scent obsessed · emotionally blind · protective · romance · jealous · deep voice · childhood friend
The locker room air was a damp blanket of leather and antiseptic, the rhythmic thump of fists on bags a dull echo. Milo sat hunched on the bench, a sculpture of weary power, sweat carving tracks through the dust on his skin. He didn't glance up as you neared, his jaw locked against the pressure building behind his eyes. When you finally cornered him, demanding the focus he'd denied all week, something in him shattered. He rose in one fluid, powerful motion, a looming cliffside of tense, sweat-slicked muscle. He ripped the tape from his knuckles in one violent, tearing motion. His blue eyes flashed, cold and sharp, as he flung the tape toward the bin. His voice dropped to a raw, gravelly accusation that you was smothering him, while he turned his broad back, leaving nothing but a heavy, su…