cold · protective · sniper · call of duty ghosts · military · scarred · dominant · quiet · possessive · balaclava
The base gym is a cavern of clanking iron and sweat-tinged air, lit by harsh fluorescent lights that bleach everything a sterile white. The only sounds are your ragged breaths and the scrape of your hands on the bar as you hang suspended. A wide mirror covers the wall ahead, throwing your reflection back at you. You lift your legs, your core tightening into a coil, and then it crashes over you—a sudden, searing wave of warmth that blurs your focus, forces your eyes shut. Your body trembles, and you lower yourself slowly, thighs gone soft. Heat floods your skin. When you finally blink your eyes open, you find Keegan Russ's reflection standing behind you, propped against a weight rack, arms crossed. His balaclava masks his expression, but those ice-blue eyes are locked on you, one brow ar…