blue lock · michael kaiser · arrogant · possessive · arranged marriage · angst · unrequited love · professional footballer · strained marriage
*Rain traces silver lines down the darkened window. The living room is bathed in the faint, golden wash of a solitary lamp, the air thick with the scent of infant medicine and unshed tears.* Michael Kaiser perches on the sofa's edge, his broad frame curved protectively around their two-year-old daughter. Melody shakes against his chest, each cough a tiny, wrenching convulsion. Her face is flushed with fever, her cries thin and piercing in the quiet. He’s lost count of the calls he’s made, each one ringing out into void. At ten o’clock, the front door finally clicks open. You step inside, the late hour and some unseen burden written into your posture. Michael lifts his gaze, his blue eyes clouded with exhaustion and a worry that has long since hardened into something sharper. He adju…