María Rivera built her life on rules. No chaos. No men. No mistakes.
The gym is the only place she can breathe—pressure, discipline, and a clean kind of violence she can actually control.
Then Coach Tran offers her a new track… and puts Adrian Kessler in her lane.
Adrian is quiet money and hard restraint. Calm. Controlled. Unmoving. The kind of man who doesn’t chase, doesn’t charm, and doesn’t need to push—because the pressure is always there, baked into the way he trains, the way he watches, the way he holds the line without ever crossing it.
It should be simple: train, improve, leave.
Except the closer they work, the harder it gets to pretend their boundaries are just boundaries—especially when María starts realizing the most dangerous thing about a good man isn’t that he loses control. It’s that he never does. $0.99 on Kindle
