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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    Ilya swallowed and Shane traced the movement with his little finger. Ilya’s skin was so warm, already tanned from only a few days at the cottage. Like it had just been waiting for an excuse to turn golden.

    “Even if I am not a nice man?” he asked.

    The self-doubt was almost painful to look at. This was what he had asked for, the morning of Ilya’s arrival at the cottage, but now he had it Shane wasn’t sure how to deal with such open honesty. With such vulnerability.

    Shane looked at him for a long moment, tracing his hand along Ilya’s jaw until they came to rest under his chin. The barest hint of stubble there was rough against the pads of his fingers.

    “I don’t want you to be some nice guy from Montreal,” he whispered. “I want you to be you. Ok?”

    Ilya finally met his gaze, allowed Shane to lift his head up so he had no choice but to look at him. Then he nodded, a small movement. A gesture to appease Shane, to end the conversation that they were both struggling with.

    Shane kissed the tip of his nose.

    They’d always found touch easier than words.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    Shane loses his game to a blizzard and his boyfriend to a bad hit, all in the same night.

    Snowed in with his parents in Montreal, he watches Ilya get stretchered off on live TV, and discovers that when your relationship is a secret, no one at the hospital thinks to call you.

    In Ottawa, Ilya wakes up with broken bones, a serious concussion, and a neatly edited brain. The months where he was lonely and depressed and fighting with Shane? Gone. He’s mentally living in the soft, hopeful beginning of things—and the more everyone tiptoes around him, the more wrong it feels.

    The Centaurs step up. The Hollanders dig in. Shane tries to convince himself that “temporary amnesia” is not the same thing as losing him.

    They’re still together. They’re technically fine.

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    15 Feb 2026

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    The anniversary of his mother’s death coincides on a day with the Hollanders. Ilya…handles it.

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    10 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 68

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    Now, he stares at the rivulets of water peeling down Ilya’s neck and chest, and he’s awed at being allowed to touch it all. When the world turned ugly and ice was no longer the safest place for Shane’s thoughts, there would always be this.

    Ilya Rozanov, his own personal blue.

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    08 Feb 2026

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    On good days it was a low pressure system, dull and manageable.

    On bad days it rolled in without notice, sharp enough to steal his breath for a second, but never long enough to justify leaving the ice. He felt the creeping increase like the buzz of static in the air before a thunderstorm, the way you could detect rain in the air long before it fell.

    There was a quiet pride in that, even if he didn’t like to admit it.

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    5 times Shane hides a chronic flare-up, and the 1 time he lets himself get looked after.

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    07 Feb 2026