The Holy Grail

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Ben Gellie held his breath as the needle went into his right arm.

He exhaled, and blood ran freely into a little specimen container. It was the seventh such blood test the small team of doctors in their white coats had taken in the past twenty-four hours. The doctors had told him that they’d found something unusual and that he needed to wait until they ran more tests. Outside of that, they had ignored him.

He was tall, clean-shaven, and wore a suit and tie on most days. A junior law graduate from Harvard, he was currently interning at the State Department. With his handsome boyish good looks and thick, wavy hair, he had no trouble getting girls. It was deciding to keep them that he’d struggled with over the years. Despite his lazy, carefree lifestyle, and capricious morals, he had naturally succeeded in all aspects of his life. An A-grade student and a natural athlete, he excelled at academia and sports, and had been offered full academic and sports scholarships to study at Harvard.

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