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    Shane’s bad luck has been causing little fires everywhere. Literally. The local firefighter who keeps coming to his rescue is incredibly hot. Not that it matters.

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    24 Mar 2026

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    [Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander sit on stools in the Centaurs’ locker room. They are wearing each other’s jerseys, and Ilya has a large pink heart painted on his left cheek. Shane has a smattering of silver sparkly heart freckles across his nose.]

    Harris: (off camera) Okay, boys. As the Centaurs’ resident power couple, we’re going to ask you twenty couples questions in honor of our Valentine’s Day game coming up!

    Ilya: Oh, good. Shane loves questions. He has a million for every possible situation. Are you sure you don’t want him to lead the interview? 

    Shane: Fuck you, Rozanov.

    Harris: Glad we got that out of the way early.

     

     

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    23 Mar 2026

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    Ilya Rozanov has spent ten years circling Shane Hollander. Ten years of hotel rooms and secret phone calls. Ten years of pretending he doesn't feel it, doesn't need it, doesn't wake up reaching for someone who's already gone. Ten years convincing himself he's not good enough. That he's not worth it.

    Then a plane needs to make an emergency landing near Montreal, and Yuna Hollander is on it.

    So when Shane calls him from a bathroom floor, unable to breathe, Ilya stops pretending.

    After five hundred miles of frozen highway, three and a half hours of driving like a man possessed, a hospital waiting room full of people who have every reason to hate him, and a boy who looks at him like he's something worth keeping, Ilya may have learned a thing or two about what it means to be loved—and to let himself love freely.

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    23 Mar 2026

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    Every time Shane asks Ilya to translate his sweet Russian murmurings, he lies to avoid revealing what a softie he is. But Shane is catching on and after learning some Russian, he's determined to catch Ilya in the act.

    Some beginning-of-established-relationship fluff between Seasons 1 and 2 AKA Books 2 and 6.

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    23 Mar 2026

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    In hopes to improve his English, Ilya Rozanov subscribes to the New Yorker.

    He does not expect himself to fall in love with a column, especially the author.

    Shane Hollander only knows how to write from his heart by cataloguing loneliness as his own, about the performance of public life and about wanting something that he cannot safely name.

    Ilya learns new words from him.

    Yearning. Vulnerability. Home.

    And he is practicing to say them out loud.

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    19 Mar 2026