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    December 23, 2008
    “Freckles?” He askes and points to the dots on his cheekbones. Ilya nods in agreement and commits the word freckles to memory. “You like my freckles.” The blush is back when Shane realizes what he said.
    Ilya has the sudden thought that this moment is important, a voice in his head that might sound like his mother, or might be his own that says, don’t fuck this up, not this one. Ilya decides very suddenly that he is going to listen, and against every instinct ingrained in him, decides to be honest.

    June 27, 2009
    “You forget English again, Rozanov? Are my vesnushki that distracting?”
    Ilya laughed, caught off guard. “So you know Russian now, Shane Hollander?”

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    “Ilya, your phone,” Shane mumbled into Ilya’s chest.

    “It’s fine, if it’s important, they’ll call back” he replied as he snoozed his phone. Ilya turned back over and smothered kisses on his husband’s face.

    “Rozanov, answer your goddamn phone,” Shane protested.

    “Or what Hollander, you’ll divorce me? Really?” he said as he turned over to grab his phone. Shane hit his arm and then peered over his shoulder kissing behind his ear. Ilya grabbed his phone while looking at the caller id. He froze.

    “Sveta? Chto sluchilos'?” Ilya asked.

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    Or: How Ilya and Shane started their family.

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    “How can Montreal be snowed in?” Ilya asks. “They are not ready for winter?”

    “It’s Montreal, man,” Marleau snickers, like that's an explanation.

    Jane- 9:44 a.m.- Look on the bright side. If you’re stuck another day, you can come back here.

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    After Ilya leaves Shane’s apartment for the first time, he knows he’s on thin ice and at risk of falling into more serious feelings. He’s ready to put distance back between them.

    A Montreal blizzard has other ideas.

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    At thirty-five, Shane Hollander finally makes the long-postponed decision: retirement from hockey and signing up at the soulmates office to find himself a lifelong partner. The most beautiful thing about it? He will never, ever have to deal with that asshole Rozanov again.

    Ilya Rozanov, after years of chaotic living and no-strings-attached hookups, also makes the long-postponed decision: retirement from hockey, because he heard Hollander is retiring, and what’s the fun without teasing him, and signing up at the soulmates office to find himself a lifelong partner.

    Both of them are completely unaware of the fact that fate—or some very thorough algorithm—has already matched them as soulmates. And on a side note, Shane Hollander may be oblivious to the fact that Ilya Rozanov doesn’t actually mind this decision nearly as much as Shane thinks he would.

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