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At forty, Jude Bellingham has the perfect life in Madrid. But it is a sterile facade. Two decades ago, paralyzed by fear, he let Erling Haaland slip through his fingers, sentencing himself to watch the man he loved conquer the world from afar.
“If I could, I’d go back and do it all differently.”
A wish whispered in the dark. A snap in consciousness.
When Jude opens his eyes, Madrid is gone and the calendar reads 2022. He is nineteen again, and Erling is right there—real, tangible, and terrifyingly close.
Trapped between a medical diagnosis of a severe concussion and the fog of his own mind, Jude must navigate a cruel psychological labyrinth: is this a miraculous second chance, or just the worst delusion of a broken man who has terrified-to-death of waking up before he can finally confess?