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    “I'm in love with someone.” Buck admits, his voice quiet but firm. If Eddie wasn't standing right in front of him he might've missed it.

    Buck is in love with someone.

    Okay.

    That's fine. That's cool. Buck has been in love with plenty of people before. Not that they deserved it, or earned it, or were worthy of it in any way at all, but still. This is fine.

    Or not.

    Or: a buddie kitchen confession.

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    "Her hair fell on her shoulders, neat curls of sunlight gold. The moonlight glow reflected off them, like the sun on fresh snow. It shone on her eyes, the same seafoam sapphire Ilya only saw in his own reflection. Her face was as young as he remembered – too young – the face of a woman only recently turned 33. There was a sadness carved in lines on her forehead though, sadness he hadn’t noticed as a child. She looked eerily as he remembered, as if the memory of that day had split from his mind and was now walking, breathing living.

    Her skin was pale grey, like no blood was rushing underneath. Her lips were chapped and tinted blue. And yet, there was a light in her pupils, something, not quite alive, but something human.

    He choked out a strangled cry.

    « Mama? » "

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    Twenty years after Irina Rozanova commits suicide, she arrives at the door of Shane and Ilya's cottage

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    The Pikes had a rough season, but now they may have a path forward to a new home, new friends and maybe some more unconventional changes.

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    only background hollanov, still an incredibly worthwhile read, this is beautiful and i love hayden and jackie’s characterization

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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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    Shane's first mistake was going to talk to Ilya Rozanov before their game. His second was immediately, stupidly, meeting the eyes of Rozanov’s very much dead mother hovering at his side.

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