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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    Aldo gives Goffredo a slow once-over, eyebrow raised. “You didn’t think to iron that cassock?”

    “This is ironed.”

    “Is that what we’re calling it now? You’re about to meet the Pope and you look like a hungover priest,” Aldo retorts, folding his arms.


    Goffredo Tedesco is not a prideful man. Or, at least, that's what he believes. But he sure is stubborn.
    Call it fate, or divine intervention, Goffredo's life is about to change. For the better or for the worse he can't quite tell yet.

    Unexpected meeting with colleagues, difficult choices, new responsibilities, and the arrival of an estranged niece with her own ideas about family and grief, will force Tedesco to reckon with the life he's built.
    As reluctant heart-to-hearts unfold, Tedesco walks a thin line between isolation and the fragile, unconventional family he’s managed—almost accidentally—to create.

    Or, Tedesco grieves, and comes out a better person.

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    25 May 2025

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    Vincent is there beside him. The sun catches in his hair, briefly turning jet black into a golden halo. Lawrence has seen this before. It takes him way too long to realize, and when he finally does, it’s already too late.

     

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    It's been two months since Vincent Benítez became Pope Innocent XIV and finally, Thomas Lawrence feels like he can catch a breath. That is, until he starts getting the same nightmare over and over again.

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    21 May 2025

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    When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.

    Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.

    Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.

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    07 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 53

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    Steve, half-dead with Jotunn ice sickness, is saved when Loki offers a cure in exchange for membership on the team. No one really believes Loki's role as an Avenger will work, but Steve—still struggling with the lingering effects of illness—is determined to make it happen.

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    24 Aug 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 83

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    Heaven without his business partner by his side is no Heaven at all.

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    24 Mar 2024