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  1. Public Bookmark 27

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    There was glitter on the floor. It was from last week, Svetlana was pretty sure, when her auntie Carol (no relation) had hired a fake fireman to strip down to his gold lamé G-string in her mom’s hospice room. The guy was younger than Svetlana by a few years, with toned golden brown skin, an excellent sense of rhythm, and enough emotional intelligence (or acting skills) to seem completely unfazed by the prospect of shaking his glittery ass in a dying woman’s hospital room for an audience of half a dozen loud-ass post-menopausal women—plus one token white boy–hooting and hollering and clapping along to Whitney. Svetlana had hidden behind her cell phone camera recording the party from the doorway, experiencing all possible emotions and none at once. That was a good day. Ilya had even been able to cajole her mom into eating half a piece of sheet cake by flirting and nagging as only he could.

    OR: Svetlana's mom just died. She's inherited one third of a beauty shop in Boston but her dream job is waiting for her in Ottawa. Her situationship is being too fucking nice. Shane won't let Sveta touch the funeral binder. And there are secrets hidden in boxes that could change how Sveta and Ilya understand their shared past.

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    03 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 37

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    The thing is, the thing is: Shane doesn't know him, doesn't want to know him, not really, and that makes Ilya think he could stay here, Shane in his arms and impersonal hotel sheets stuck to his sweat-slicked skin, forever and ever. Or, at least, until Shane gets fidgety, like he always gets, and bolts at half past midnight, leaving Ilya to fondle his sticky dick and be what he's best at being, which is being alone while surrounded by people.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    And yeah, Shane knew that Ilya hadn’t been okay last time he was in Russia, but Ilya had had the very real excuse of a funeral to blame things on. Ilya had downplayed it as much as he could, and Shane hadn’t been there, he’d heard the fatigue and he’d seen Ilya’s tired smile, but he hadn’t felt the way Ilya’s hands were cold the entire time he was there, hadn’t seen through the screen the way Ilya dropped eight pounds in three weeks, hadn’t kept time when there were twenty hours in Ilya’s day instead of something closer to sixteen. Or, on the flip side, for the week or two after, when there had been approximately ten conscious hours in a day.

    It was one thing to see something. It was another to feel it in your hands.

    Ilya and Shane are so, so happy for their first year married. They’re playing in Ottawa together, they’re fucking winning, they’re together and out.

    So now, after a year, Ilya should be fine. He should be great. He should not be flinching at small noises or nearly punching people off the clock or feeling like he’s drowning whenever he’s not on the ice.

    Or: Ilya Rozanov, meet your PTSD.

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    29 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    Chapter 1: At a game against the New York Admerials Ilya gets hurt. In the hospital, Shane needs a friend. Scott Hunter is that friend.

    Chapter 2: After an argument with Ilya at the Hockey Camp Shane needs a friend. Ryan Price is that friend.

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    27 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    Ilya's visits to the children's hospital have the same routine every time: visit the rooms, talk to kids and their parents, sign any objects they'd like, and beat the kids at a few rounds of Mario Kart. The kids enjoy having him around, and he enjoys being able to make their days at the hospital better.

    But this time, it's different.

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    27 Jun 2026