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Al-Haitham hums, sitting back in his seat. His eyes get that look they always do when he's thinking– at least that had stayed the same– before he put his hands in his pockets.
“You can stay with me, if you'd like,” he says all too casually as he pulls a hand back out his pocket. “For the time being,” he adds on a little too quickly, “until you manage to get yourself out of the mess you’ve made.”
Kaveh was about to open his mouth to protest. Like he'd ever take an offer from him, especially with that attitude.
But then Al-Haitham slides a key across the table to him–golden, with emerald embellishments, a carbon copy of the soulmark on Kaveh's arm– and the words on his lips dissipate into the warm tavern air.
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18 Sep 2025
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A handsome guy buying flowers, knowing their meanings, tailoring a bouquet just for a coworker…
Kaveh sighed dreamily as he carefully pruned the Silk Flowers (uniqueness, individuality, secret admiration) of their shriveling stamens, then grimaced at the irony of finding himself in front of them while ruminating on a customer.
“Not like I’ll ever see him again,” Kaveh puffed.
Little did he know.
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11 Sep 2025
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Hanzo Shimada was a man of many skills.
But, as he was quickly finding out, baking was not one of them.
It should not be this hard to read a recipe, or this complicated to measure out the ingredients. He couldn't understand why this was all just so stupidly difficult, but he couldn’t mess this up.
Because it was all for Cassidy.
Which is why it had to be perfect.
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10 Sep 2025
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“Prove it.”
Kaveh paused. Slowly, he turned around. “What?”
“Prove that you won’t fall in love.”
Kaveh tilted his head. “And how do you suggest I do that?”
“Date me,” said Al-Haitham. “Prove to me that you won’t fall in love.”
Kaveh keeps getting broken up with and is on the verge of giving up on love when Al-Haitham propositions him.
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28 Jun 2025
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The toddler began to cry, and then he started to cough from trying to cry too hard, snot dripping down his face. Another adult came hurrying over to help him to his feet before they went inside to head, presumably, to the nurse’s office.
Loud, chaotic, dirty. Everything that went against Al-Haitham’s standards.
“Working here as what?” Kaveh blinked. “Like admin or something? That’s probably quiet and far enough from kids for you. Though—”
“No,” interrupted Al-Haitham. “I don’t.”
After getting fired from a prestigious architecture firm, Kaveh moves back to his hometown to raise his five-year-old brother only to find that an old college "acquaintance" is his little brother's kindergarten teacher.
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26 Jun 2025