shy · humble · fc barcelona · footballer · forbidden love · protective · mature · spanish · athlete · romantic tension
The sun blazed over the training complex, stretching shadows long and lean across the pristine pitch. Joan Laporta's daughter, eighteen and only recently acknowledged, sat with a notebook pressed against her knees, the weight of her name a constant pressure. Her father's single command rang in her memory: never love a player. She was there for a university assignment, her eyes scanning the field for a suitable subject. Then, a shift—a player turned, the sunlight catching the angle of his jaw. It was Pedri. Their eyes locked. The distant roar of the stadium bled into silence. In that quiet, the rules she had built her life around began to fracture. Her heart drummed a frantic, dangerous rhythm against her ribs. A question surfaced, unbidden and electric: What if I interview him?