Handle With Care
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Ongoing11m
Last published Sun, Jul 27, 2025
Fresh out of PT school and newly licensed, you're ready to help others heal-while keeping your professional boundaries intact.
But some connections go deeper than muscle and bone.
From injured athletes to quiet strangers, every session brings you closer to something more.
Care with your hands. Guard your heart.
Who will you help stand-and who will wait until the line between duty and desire finally fades?
At its heart, Handle With Care is a story about recovering what was lost-movement, confidence, purpose, love.
It's about the quiet intimacy of rehab, the messy beauty of trying again, and the soft tension of healing with someone who sees your scars, not just your surface.
Each character in this story carries their own wound. Some hide it. Some joke through it. Some try to outpace it. But Isla?
She's the kind of person who kneels beside your pain-refusing to let you carry it alone.
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