No Safe Distance

He is a gay man. He knows it too well, Openly. Undeniably.

So falling for a woman was never part of the plan.

Soren Isaiah Valdemar knows exactly who he is—and who he isn't supposed to want. A sports physio with clear boundaries and zero interest in rewriting his identity, he believes some distances exist for a reason.

Until Isabela Marijke de Vries, a fiercely disciplined fencer with an injury she refuses to respect, steps into his rehab room.

What starts as professional, safe, and impossible slowly becomes something neither of them planned for. Because when labels are clear but feelings aren't, the hardest part isn't choosing each other—

it's choosing what that means.