Gym Buddy, Bed Buddy
MM Gym Romance
by Chase Power
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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Gym Romance, Friends to Lovers, Bi Awakening, Himbo x Grump, Spotter to Lover, Praise Kink, Size Difference, Mutual Pining, He Falls First
He asked for a spot. He got a soulmate.
Dean Foster’s life is simple: lift heavy, coach clients, avoid feelings. The gym is his church, his therapy, and his excuse for never having a second date. Then the new guy shows up — all wrong angles, terrible form, and a determination so stubborn it’s almost offensive.
Casey Nguyen doesn’t belong here. He’s a stressed-out pediatric nurse who bought a gym membership at 2 AM after a panic attack, and the only thing keeping him coming back is spite — and the giant, grumpy trainer who silently fixed his deadlift form without being asked.
What starts as free form-checks becomes scheduled sessions. Scheduled sessions become protein-shake dates. Protein-shake dates become Dean walking Casey to his car, and lingering, and thinking about him in ways that have nothing to do with progressive overload.
Dean’s never wanted a man before. He’s never wanted anyone like this. And when a late-night session ends with Casey pinned against the squat rack, they both discover the only thing better than a new PR is hearing good job from the right mouth.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Grumpy trainer falls first, falls HARD
✅ Bi awakening with zero shame spiral, maximum devotion
✅ Size difference and praise kink in equal measure
✅ Gym culture written by someone who actually lifts
✅ Soft nurse who gives as good as he gets
✅ 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, sweaty in every sense
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes including size kink, praise kink, and semi-public encounters), strong language, depictions of workplace burnout and anxiety, discussion of body image, and brief gym-bro casual homophobia (challenged on page). Intended for readers 18+.
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Chapter One: Form Check
The new guy was going to hurt himself.
Dean had been watching him for ten minutes from the cable station — not watching him watching him, just monitoring, the way you monitor anyone in your gym who loads a barbell like they’re assembling IKEA furniture without the instructions. The guy was maybe five-eight, lean in a way that said cardio and stress rather than programming, wearing brand-new shoes and a T-shirt from a 5K fundraiser. And he was setting up to deadlift with a rounded back that made Dean’s own spine ache in sympathy.
Don’t, Dean told himself. Not your client. Not your problem.
The guy took a breath, gripped the bar, and pulled. The bar traveled four inches. His lower back did something that should require a waiver.
Dean was across the floor before he’d made the decision to move.
“Stop.” It came out lower and harder than he intended, and the guy dropped the bar like it had caught fire, whipping around with wide dark eyes.
“Sorry — am I doing it wrong? I’m doing it wrong. I watched like nine videos.”
“The videos didn’t watch you back.” Dean crouched, stripped a plate off each side without asking, and set the bar back down. “Hips are too low. Back’s rounded. You’re pulling with your spine instead of your legs. Again, but push the floor away instead of lifting the bar.”
The guy blinked at him. Up close he had a scattering of moles along his jaw and the deep, bruised-looking under-eyes of someone who worked nights. “Push the floor. Away.”
“Leg press. The bar’s just along for the ride.”
He set up again — hips high, then too high, then, with Dean’s palm hovering an inch from his lower back as a target, exactly right — and pulled. The bar came up smooth. His whole face transformed, shock into delight, like he’d just discovered a cheat code for gravity.
“Oh my god. That felt completely different.”
“That felt correct.” Dean straightened up. “Keep the weight where it is until it stops feeling new.”
He should have walked away then. That was the whole transaction — spot the hazard, fix the hazard, return to his own workout and his own carefully maintained solitude. Instead he heard himself say, “You work nights?”
The guy laughed, surprised. “That obvious? Pediatric nursing. Three twelves and change.” He stuck out a hand, chalk dust and all. “Casey.”
Dean looked at the hand. Small compared to his. Steady in a way that suggested it was good at holding things that mattered.
“Dean,” he said, and shook it, and did not think about how easily it disappeared into his.
He thought about it the entire drive home.
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