Off Limits

Isabela León comes back to Barcelona with one goal: prove she belongs. New contract, fresh start, and the kind of pressure that sits heavy on your ribs when your last name already means something at this club.

Because she isn't just any returnee.

She's Mapi León's little sister.

And Barcelona has long memories.

What nobody expects is Alexia-captain, legend, the safest pair of hands in the room-being the one thing Isabela can't handle. One look across the training pitch and it's like the years fold in on themselves. Like she's sixteen again, trailing after her sister's best friend, heart in her throat, pretending it's normal to crave someone you're not allowed to want.

Alexia has always had a soft spot for her. A nickname that never went away. A protectiveness that feels too intimate now. And a line that was easy to hold when Isabela was just "Mapi's kid sister"... but impossible when she walks back into Barça grown up, all sharp edges and warm eyes and unfinished history.

The problem is, the rules haven't changed.

If Alexia crosses that line, it isn't just scandal-it's betrayal. Of Mapi. Of the locker room. Of everything Barça stands for.

So they do what they've always done: pretend.

Pretend Alexia's touch on her shoulder is just guidance. Pretend the lingering looks mean nothing. Pretend "Princesita" is still innocent.

But the closer they get-late-night physio, extra sessions, quiet car rides after matches-the harder it is to keep the secret from becoming the truth.

Because Isabela didn't just come back to Barcelona to play football.

She came back to the one person she never truly got over.