“I asked around, got knocked around a few times, and then someone said something that I wanted to hear. He said that he knew the guys that Rik knew, and believe me when I say I nearly s**t my pants that day. I realized that I was out of my league.”
He shook his head as if he was reliving the nightmare, and I waited for him to tell me what happened next.
“I was staying in some dive. The bed was crawling with God knows what, and I realized for the first time in my life that we’ve lived a privileged life. Sure, I knew we were rich and that we had everything given to us…”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
“But you’ve had your head in the clouds, bro,” I said. I knew that we’d been given everything. “You think that training hard and studying makes us hard-boiled? s**t, some of the stor
