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Jannik hits a clean shot, a lashing forehand that lands the ball deep in the ad court, grazing the line and lifting a wisp of white off the grass. The kick of the topspin dizzies the ball into the air. Carlos, out of position, jumps and lunges toward it, throwing all of his weight forward.
Jannik can tell he’s going to miss. He’s already turning to his team, one fist raised, when the ball whizzes past Carlos’s outstretched racket.
He doesn’t see Carlos land. He doesn’t see him collapse into the dirt.
He hears a crack, like a heavy tree branch, snapping in a windstorm.
He only looks back when Carlos starts screaming.
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20 Jan 2026
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Jannik and Carlos are madly in love, but love is not enough when you're at war with yourself.
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16 Jan 2026
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Carlos has loved Jannik for a long time. The only thing it's ever done is hurt him.
And then Jannik comes back.
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19 Dec 2025
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Technically speaking, all dreams are memories…of a kind. But the visions that Jannik’s been having about Carlos this week have been terrifyingly realistic.
In them, the Spaniard seems so real. The settings too, are distressingly grounded in reality. Only in these quasi-memories, Carlos behaves nothing like the young man Jannik actually knows from years of playing tennis together.
Even if Jannik thought Carlos capable of what he can remember…it still couldn’t be real. So he has no choice but to accept that these are simply some type of sick, recurring dream he’s been having.
That he keeps having…
…and they’re only getting worse.
Following his retirement in Cincinnati, Jannik finds himself subject to an escalating series of lucid dreams about Carlos Alcaraz. The Italian is certain that they’re dreams, even if they don’t feel that way. In fact, they must be dreams. No matter how viscerally the contents chase after him in waking life.
They simply cannot be anything but the bizarre fantasies of a fatigued mind.
Can they?
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10 Dec 2025
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Jannik Sinner, a man raised by contracts and desperate to maintain the cold order of his corporate empire, is forced into a marriage of necessity with the reckless, passionate Carlos Alcaraz. Trapped in a gilded cage, their rivalry combusts into a possessive, consuming intimacy where Carlos's dominant care shatters Jannik's control, offering him a dangerous, addictive kind of peace.
However, the corporate and the personal collide when Carlos discovers the devastating truth behind the merger, forcing him to choose between the safety they built and the violent, inevitable destruction of everything they both hold dear.
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04 Dec 2025