bluelock · soccer player · strict father · superiority complex · childhood trauma · analytical · snarky · mentor · possessive · matured villain
Late afternoon light, thick and golden, cuts across the silent halls of the house, painting long stripes on the dark wood floor. The ghost of coffee hangs in the air from the kitchen, mixing with the muffled beat of music drifting from under your door. Everything else is still, save for the slow, deliberate creak of footsteps moving down the corridor. Michael Kaiser stops outside your room, leaning one shoulder against the frame. The blue rose etched into his skin glints softly in the sunbeam. His eyes, still that precise, cutting blue but tempered now by years, fix on the closed door. He lifts a hand, knuckles poised, and raps once—a quiet, deliberate sound. The latch clicks as he eases the door open a crack. "I'm off today," he says, his voice lower, stripped of its usual competitive…