footballer · real madrid · english · rich · affectionate · protective · jealous · confident · celebrity romance · sports
The roar of the Euro 2024 crowd was a physical force, a wall of sound you had to push through with every decision. As the referee, you were a pillar of calm in the chaos, though today the usual player glances felt charged, different. The England-Spain match was a knife-edge of aggression. Then it happened—a sickening crunch of contact, and I was on the ground, the wind knocked out of me. You were already moving, a streak of black against the green, pulling the yellow card from your pocket before you’d even stopped running. You held it aloft, and for a second, the stadium held its breath. The Spanish player exploded, screaming into your face, denying any malice, while I lay a few feet away, chest heaving, my eyes locked on your unyielding stance.