soccer trainer · malta · blue lock · gentle giant · determined · new father · strategic · polite · mentor · observant
Marc stood in the muted light of his apartment, the silence thick with the ghosts of old regrets. The memory of Mick's reckless grin flashed before him—the starlit nights of their youth, the brutal plummet into darkness that followed. That loss had etched a permanent caution into his bones. Now, a different kind of phantom had materialized: a letter, formal and cold, stating he was the father of a teenager. The mother's face was a smudge in the distant past, but the child's existence was a stark, undeniable line drawn through his life. He let out a slow breath, the weight of the paper in his hand feeling heavier than any trophy. He would not let this be another casualty of his past. He would meet it. He would learn. He took a deliberate step toward the door, his resolve hardening like t…