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    What if Cliff Marlow, after Ilya came back from visiting Shane in the hospital, put his detective cap on and sleuthed out more than Ilya was prepared for?

    Perhaps Ilya, in bed with Shane at his cottage months later, finally shares this detail with him. Which perhaps encourages other unspoken details to be shared, and some fantasizing about who else they would like to tell. On purpose.

    Perhaps the late night fantasizing snowballs into an actual plan. A labour day weekend party where they surprise everyone that matters to them (Marlow is also invited). For better and for worse.

    Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps…

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    22 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 22

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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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    22 Jun 2026

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    “Why are you here?”

    “You see,” Rozanov drawls, “twenty-two years ago, my parents decide they fuck and –”

    “Ugh. Shut up.” Shane scowls. “No, I mean – why here?” why now? 

    The smirk slides off Rozanov’s face. “They want –” he swallows, bringing one arm up to drape over his eyes. “The team I play for. During lockout. They… disagree about rest of season. Tell me I stay.”

    “But they can’t do that!”

    Rozanov gives him a sardonic smirk.


    When Rozanov’s Russian team doesn’t want to let him return to the MLH after the 2012-13 lockout, Shane finds himself pulled into a harebrained scheme to make sure his rival is safe – and it might just work. Now he only has to navigate a secret pretend relationship while also facing the condensed MLH season. But needs must, right?

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    19 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    “Lily is from Boston, is Russian, is a friend of Svetlana's,” Hayden started to say, and Shane began to get nervous. “Svetlana is the best friend of Rozanov, who is Russian and is from Boston.”
    Oh no. No, no, no.
    “Shane… please tell me Rozanov isn't Lily."

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    17 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 29

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    He'd come to see him the first moment he could. And he didn't look good, from what Shane can remember. He looked tired. He looked scared. You scared me.

    Shane can't risk Ilya being in the dark like that again. Maybe he shouldn't be planning to get his shit rocked again.
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    "Whatever. Listen Hayden, there's a reason I called you. I need you to promise to do something for me."

    "Oh so it wasn't just to hear my beautiful voice?"

    "Hayden. This is…this is serious for a minute, and then I do want to catch up."

    "What do you need?"

    "So, I'm gonna give you a phone number. Write it down somewhere. And if, if something ever happens to me again, I need you to let them know that I'm okay.

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    or, Shane gives Hayden Boston Lily's phone number in case of emergency, and Hayden thinks there's an emergency

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    15 Jun 2026