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    Ilya sits down carefully and takes Shane’s hand. “I am going to ask you something, and I want you to try not to freak out, okay? Take a breath, think about it.”
    That sounds… serious.
    “The Centaurs are having a barbeque,” Ilya says. “I would like to go, and I would like you to come with me.”

    Shane meets the Centaurs. As Ilya's close personal friend slash charity partner from Canada.

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    06 Sep 2026

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    After the game, he will find Rozanov lighting a cigarette outside the bar, shielding it from the headwind with his bruised hand.

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    01 Sep 2026

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    The truth was, yeah, Shane married Ilya, but he’d married hockey first. He married hockey the second he signed his rookie contract with the Metros, and his courtship began long, long before. And his marriage to hockey wasn’t like his marriage to Ilya. Hockey wouldn’t ever love him back. Ilya wasn’t going to chew Shane up and spit him out at some nebulous point after he turned thirty and before he turned forty, his joints busted and his mouth full of dentures and his brain fucked to hell and back. And that marriage—his first marriage—had always come before his second, illicit shotgun wedding.

    It wasn’t ideal, maybe, but that was just how things were. Hell, it was probably the same for Ilya, too. The fuck was Shane supposed to do about it? Nothing, nothing, nothing. He liked his life just the way it was. He didn’t want to do anything different. He still doesn’t. And that’s the worst, most shameful part of it all: at the end of the day, some part of Shane will always wish he could wind back time like adjusting a watch; erase that Instagram post before it ever hit the internet and go back to the life they’d had before; the life that was slowly killing them both.

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    31 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 49

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    A watched pot never boils.

    Or, Ilya's last season in Boston.

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    30 Aug 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    “Didn’t know you lived in my neighborhood,” Gemma said, watching the receding forms of Alice’s fellow coaches plus Shannon head up a side street to the left.

    “Didn’t you move south after we recruited you?” Alice asked. “So isn’t it technically my neighborhood?”

    Gemma waved her off. “Semantics. My neighborhood, your neighborhood. Maybe it’s just ours, hm?”

    (Or, another version of what could have happened after pub clean-up.)

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    29 Aug 2026