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𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:
⋆✴︎˚｡⋆  sports romance ➺ MMA ➺ injured athlete ➺ physical therapist ➺ forbidden romance ➺ grumpy hero ➺ slow burn ➺ second chance ➺ forced proximity ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

⚠︎ Trigger Warning ⚠︎
⋙ This book contains references to depression, grief, anxiety, substance addiction, thoughts of self-harm, thoughts of suicide, and death of a parent (mentioned) ⋙

❝ But people can have more than one thing that fulfills them. Family, hobbies, careers. You keep thinking of fighting as the only thing that could ever be your reason for living, and it’s keeping you from moving on, man. You’re stuck in this limbo that you don’t need to be in.❞

❝ Excuse me, what am I supposed to eat at the movies? An apple? That would be blasphemous.❞

An injury that changed everything.

A man who’s angry at the world.

A woman who won’t let him give up.

Once, Roman was a professional MMA fighter on the brink of becoming the best in the world. But when an injury to his spinal cord alters the trajectory of his life, he not only has to learn how to walk again, he also needs to rediscover who he is with the disability that shattered his dreams. And he has to do it with the help of the first person to make him hope again—and the one woman he can’t have.

When Roman enters the physical therapy clinic, defeated and unmotivated, it’s clear to Liliana that a tough love approach is going to be the only way to help him heal, both physically and emotionally. But it doesn’t take long until that desire to help extends beyond her professional responsibility and grows into something much deeper.

While Roman struggles to balance his feelings with navigating his new reality, Liliana has to decide how much she’s willing to risk in aiding his journey.

Will Roman and Liliana continue to prioritize Roman’s recovery? Or will their feelings for each other become yet another obstacle?

𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓈 | 𝒜𝓂𝒶𝓏𝑜𝓃