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    June 2009. Two weeks before the NHL Draft.

    Before hockey takes them back, Shane plans Ilya’s 18th birthday trip: old streets, train tickets, hidden gifts, and the impossible luxury of being in love in public.

    No NHL jerseys yet. No cameras. No one there to turn tenderness into evidence.

    For a few days, they get to belong to themselves before the world gets the story wrong.

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    14 May 2026

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    Chapter 10

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    One delayed flight. One closing airport bar. One truth or dare game that gets significantly out of hand.
    Ilya Rozanov came to his ex-girlfriend's wedding to prove he was over it. Shane Hollander came to his best friend's wedding to prove he was fine. They were both lying, but they didn't know that about each other yet.

    Then they had to share a room.

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    25 May 2026

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    Chapter 8
    Part 2 coming

  3. Public Bookmark 73

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    Shane is already nervous about hosting his new team right before the regular season starts for the Ottawa Centaurs. A lapse in the rigid rules he's set for himself leads to a few...consequences he definitely didn't foresee when he woke up that morning expecting the worst of their gathering to involve awkward small talk and making sure no one got so drunk they wouldn't make practice tomorrow.

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    “Oh my god,” said Shane, his breaths coming in shorter pants.

    “You said you would not panic,” Ilya reminded him. 

    “That was before I did drugs!” Shane cries, way too loudly for the quiet of the room. 

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    12 Jun 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 57

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    ​"I don't know you," Ilya said. His voice was entirely devoid of emotion. "I don't know a Dasha."

    ​It’s 2027, and Ilya and Shane have finally built the life they always fought for. The ice rinks and endless flights are a thing of the past, replaced by yoga studios, podcasts, and the beautiful, exhausting chaos of raising Isla and Skye. Their world is safe. It’s loud, it’s messy, and it’s completely theirs.

    ​But you can't outrun where you came from forever.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Chapter 12

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    His eyes land on Ilya. 

    For one brief second, Ilya thinks Hollander is going to stop, step out of the walkway, say something. Do anything. 

    Ilya's hand twitches at his side, absurdly, like it's waiting for a handshake that has not happened yet. Like it's preparing for the contact. 

    Instead, Hollander gives him the smallest half-nod, barely there, and walks into the arena. 

     

    OR: One bad World Juniors drops Ilya Rozanov to sixth overall in the draft and Shane Hollander goes first. Rozanov decides he’s going to spend his career proving the league wrong. What he doesn’t plan on is becoming fixated on Hollander in the process — on the way he plays, and the way he watches Rozanov right back. Somewhere along the way, it stops being about the league’s attention and starts being about keeping Hollander’s.

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    09 Jun 2026