He swore he was straight. He wanted me anyway.A gay-for-you, first-time, very spicy MM romance. Full heat, no fade to black, and the happy ending you came for.
I joined the gym to get in shape and they put me with Cole. He’s the trainer the whole room watches: big, calm, built like something that doesn’t belong in real life, with a girlfriend and a straight life that make him completely off-limits. I figured I’d learn the lifts and keep my head down. A guy like that doesn’t look twice at a guy like me. Then he put his hand on my back to fix my form, held my eyes a second too long in the mirror, and I stopped believing that. I’ve spent my whole life being the one nobody picks. He looked at me like he already had.
It started with training. It turned into the thing we couldn’t say out loud: his hands on me in the dark, his straight life intact in the daylight, the whole secret he hid from the world he’d been faking for years. I let him hide it, because being wanted by the man everyone else only gets to look at felt like winning. But hiding gets old, and I got tired of being a secret. The straightest, most-wanted man in the room wanted me first, and he wanted me most. The only question left was whether he’d ever want me anywhere but in the dark.
— Eli
If you want a gay romance that never fades to black, where you feel every inch of the heat and still get the happy ending, this one is for you. The Trainer runs on slow-burn tension and full-on heat: the wanting builds and builds, but the bodies don’t wait.
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