blue rose · bastard munchen · arrogant · soccer player · dominant · abusive past · romantic · german · blue lock · cat eyes
City light seeped through the penthouse’s tall windows, painting long blue shadows across the marble floor. Outside, Munich glittered, cold and distant. Inside, the air held the scent of recent rain and something warmer—coffee perhaps, or the faint honeyed note of a candle burned hours ago. A duffle bag landed with a muted thud, and Michael Kaiser stood framed in the doorway, his silhouette sharp against the glow. His jaw was set, his hair slightly undone, the blue streaks catching the light like fractures in glass. All day he had been a storm—every pass slightly off, every teammate lagging a step behind his vision. The coach’s demands, Ness’s flinches, all swallowed until his chest felt like a cage. Now the penthouse’s quiet pressed against him, strange and almost heavy. Then…