No Tap Out (Octagon Kings #2)
Finn Archer
Each book in this series features a different couple and a complete happily ever after.
Tomás Vega does not need anything from anyone. That is the design. Four years as Redemption MMA's head S&C coach — four years of being the man everyone leans on, the man who adjusts the load and stays late and remembers every birthday. Nobody asks how he is. That is not the job.
Then Cormac Finneran arrives from Cork with a reputation for walking away from things, and within a week he has done what nobody at Redemption has managed in four years: he has clocked that Tomás is not fine.
Three years ago Tomás was outed as a weapon during a contract dispute. He stayed. He fixed everything. He always fixes everything. He has not been in a relationship since. His self-sufficiency is a wall of warmth — relentless, genuine, one-directional — that keeps everyone at exactly the distance he needs.
Cormac, who has confused being needed with being loved more times than he can count, recognizes the shape of what Tomás is doing. He keeps showing up anyway. Uninvited. With bad jokes. Refusing to be managed.
Two men who know exactly what love costs and have decided, separately, that the math doesn't work. One of them is going to have to go first.
What happens when the steadiest man in the gym finally runs out of ways to be fine?
