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... ut push-up number twenty-three, the courtyard's stone digging into his palms. Sweat stung his eyes, dripping off his nose to splatter on the ground, and his breath came in sharp, ragged huffs. "Twenty-four," he grunted, teeth gritted, muscles screaming as he forced himself down and up again.
The sun beat down, relentless, turning the garden into an oven, but he kept going—twenty-five—his biceps flexing, veins popping under skin that wasn't so scrawny anymore.
"Twenty-six," he gro ...
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