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PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS

~CHELSEA POV~

{Playlist suggestion: "Broken" by lovelytheband}

I had made a mistake agreeing to this.

That thought hit me for the hundredth time as I watched Kade stretch his injured leg on the training room mat. Three days into our arrangement, and I was already regretting it.

Not because he wasn't trying. He was. Maybe too much.

"Slower," I said, kneeling beside him. "You're rushing through the movement."

"It doesn't hurt as much when I go fast."

"That's the point. You need to feel the resistance. Feel where the weakness is."

He stopped mid-stretch and looked at me. "You sound like you've done this before."

"Chase had to relearn how to walk twice. Once after the first surgery, again after the second." I kept my voice steady, professional. "I watched every session the insurance would cover."

Which hadn't been many. But I didn't say that part.

Kade nodded and started the stretch again, slower this time. I could see him concentrating, trying to feel what I was talk
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