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    Ilya let out a quiet laugh, shaking his head. “I want to be perfect for you, Shane. To make up for all the time we lost.”

    “I don’t want perfect,” Shane said quietly, stroking Ilya’s cheek. “I want something real. Something that we fight to make work, because we want it so much. Because being together is so much fucking better than being without each other.”

    ***

    Ten years ago, Shane and Ilya loved each other in secret and let each other go anyway.

    Now Shane, captain of the Ottawa Centaurs, is a single dad to four-year-old Ollie, and good at pretending he doesn’t think about the man he lost when they were younger and terrified of the fallout of being caught. Then one chance meeting turns into drinks, lingering looks, old feelings, and suddenly Ilya Rozanov is everywhere again.

    Some things, it turns out, never really leave you.

    As Shane and Ilya fall back into each other’s lives - and into something softer, steadier, and openly theirs this time — they realise maybe they’re finally ready for the life they used to dream about.

    Or: two hockey players who were each other’s first love reconnect ten years later and slowly build the family they always wanted.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Two years after their divorce, Shane and Ilya have learned how to move around each other carefully through custody schedules, Friday dinners, and the quiet understanding that loving each other was never the thing that broke them apart.

    But somewhere between a color-coded Tokyo itinerary, sleepy children curled against their shoulders, and the unbearable familiarity of still being a family together, Shane begins to realize something terrifying:

    maybe they are just two slow dancers, still somehow moving toward each other after all this time.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Ilya doesn’t know what he expected when Katya called him, but this certainly isn’t it.

    A daughter.

    His eighteen-year-old niece has a toddler.

    It’s not just Mila’s existence, although that in and of itself is a surprise to say the least, but it is everything about the two of them.

    Mila is silent, eyes wide and searching. She hasn’t uttered a single word.

    Katya responds when spoken to, quietly, politely. Scared.

     

    Or: Ilya Rozanov's niece turns eighteen, and with the money from her trust, she flees to Canada with her toddler in tow.

    (Originally posted with a different summary.)

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Shane’s father didn’t surprise Ilya and Shane at the cottage. Now, half a year later, Shane and Ilya’s relationship is still a secret to the Hollanders. When the flu strands Shane in Boston, he turns up at his boyfriend’s house unannounced with his parents in tow.

    While the Hollanders are not convinced that this is a good idea. Ilya, however, prefers a sick boyfriend to no boyfriend for Christmas. He just has to convince Shane’s parents that he’s boyfriend materiel.

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    04 Jun 2026

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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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    20 May 2026