Chapter 59: Point of No Return.
11 days later. Luca’s staring contest with the mysterious pills had become a daily ritual during the course of the last two weeks. It was always the same, with always the same result. He would stand before the bathroom sink, stare at the damned medicine, relive the fight with Charles, briefly regret getting involved, then the pain would kick in. As his joints started aching, the possibilities flashed before his eyes: take the pills and swim the nationals, at the cost of his own morality, or flush the capsules down the toilet and go about his natural recovery. At that point, everything else came into consideration. His sports career had led him to that point. To that dorm room, where the strange little man who would become, over the course of few months, one of his best friends ever. A fr
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