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    “I’ve always been kind of weak in relationships.”

    “Troy— ”

    “I need someone stronger than me. Dallas and Adrian were. But they weren’t people I could trust — and I never trusted Dallas, really.”

    Troy thinks Harris has an inkling about what he needs. That he needs a master. That he needs someone to guide him. Harris is so sweet about it that it looks almost nothing like how it looked with Dallas and Adrian — but it’s the same principle.

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    Excerpts from Troy's life aged eleven to twenty-six years old, focusing on his relationships with Adrian Dela Cruz and Dallas Kent during his time with Toronto.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    wowwww this was so good and sad

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    Troy Barrett was not the person Wyatt would have chosen to be paired up with for the day, but unfortunately this was something the players didn’t actually get much say in. Tickets for the annual Toronto Guardians Charity Golf Tournament were incredibly expensive and the front office wanted to ensure the generous donors got their money’s worth. They’d been very careful to make sure no one got stuck with two nobodies while someone else got to spend the day with two All-Stars.

    Which meant Barrett had been separated from his buddy, Dallas Kent, and assigned to the task of raising Wyatt’s profile.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    Flight 771 shouldn't have been any different than any of the hundreds of other flights that Shane has taken over the course of his career, aside from the fact that it was taking him towards his lifelong dream—towards the Olympics.

    It shouldn't have been any different.

    BEND OVER, STAY DOWN.

    BEND OVER, STAY DOWN.

    BEND OVER, STAY DOWN.

    It is.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    specifically loving Troy and Carter in this sm🫶

    on ch. 10

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    Hayden could not imagine someone losing that and their mother in the same day. It would age you. It would change you. Perhaps by the time Ilya had been thirteen, and fourteen, perhaps he had already been grown.

    Hayden Pike grit his teeth because he knew he had been wrong. Ilya Rozanov had never just been an obnoxious hockey player with a colossal ego and nice smile - nice enough to entrap Shane Hollander, anyway - and now his hatred was mostly unfounded. He hated it when people were more complex than they seemed. It meant he had to change his mind.

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    Five times people see the impact of Ilya growing up too fast, and one time a tiger becomes a boy again.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    🫶

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    J.J.’s eyes settled across the parking lot, where Shane had hung up the phone but was still crouched, his silhouette dark, head down, hands at the back of his neck. Fatigued, trying to make himself smaller, hide how exposed he clearly felt. Because he and Roz were a thing. Not a one way thing but an actual… thing. Shit.
    J.J. hated Florida. The humidity fucked up his skin, and they had those giant snakes that weren’t even supposed to be there but some idiot Florida men had set them free and the swamps there were so fucked that they thrived. J.J. set his jaw, determined, before he responded. “Tell Jackie to get three tickets.” He reached into his bag and confirmed his passport was there. “It will be harder for Coach to punish all of his captains. I’m going with you.”
    He nodded his head definitively.
    Hayden nodded back.

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    After the Centaurs' plane almost crashes, Shane, Hayden, and J.J. go on an increasingly ridiculous road trip across Florida to get to Ilya and his increasingly suspicious but always lovable teammates.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    hehe