The news of Cristian Chivu's appointment was a tactical nuclear bomb that had just been dropped directly into the middle of Leon's quiet, happy, and finally-getting-normal life.
He just stood there in his living room, the phone pressed to his ear, listening to the beautiful, chaotic, and slightly hysterical voice of the woman he was dating explain that her terrifying, super-genius father was moving to the same country to become his direct, bitter, and league-table-defining rival.
A slow, slightly hysterical laugh bubbled up from his chest. "Of course," he said, the words a mixture of pure, unadulterated shock and a strange, almost impressed, sense of awe. "Of course he is."
