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    Hayden gets up to move and pats Shane's shoulder on his way out. “Remember the party we're having at our place on Friday, okay?”

    Shane calls out an “okay” just as the front door slams shut behind him.

    He sets his bag down in his room before going to grab a can of coke—Hayden buys them and then ends up drinking Shane's stuff anyway—and walks into the room now occupied by a stranger.

    “Hey,” he calls out to the half hidden figure inside the closet as he sets down the coke on the new desk next to the door. “I don't know if you like coke but I brought you one. I'm Shane by the way.”

    The face that peeks out from behind the closet door makes Shane's eyes widen.

    Holy shit.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Then like an anomaly in one of his datasets, a green OPEN tag appears next to one of the restaurants. Shane squints his eyes, having difficulty seeing properly without his glasses.

    Irina's Kitchen
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    Shane doesn't bother reading them. He taps on the website and waits for it to load. Only to be met with error.

    Sighing he exits the page and keeps on scrolling. Nothing that is open catches his interest and the rest are closed. He's wondering how stale celery would taste dipped in pickle juice when his eyes land on Irina's Kitchen once more.

    There's a phone number under the address. Shane bites his lower lip and wonders if he should call.

    A woman with an accented voice picks up after the 5th ring.

    “Hello?”

    “Uh, hey, are you guys still open?”

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    15 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 56

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    Ilya plastered on his game face — a studied expression of stony disinterest — and tapped his stick on the ice before finally setting eyes on Hollander, whose damnable freckles appeared extra lovely thanks to the light flush on his cheeks. His dark eyes were bright and sharp enough to cut steel, his brow furrowed as if he was contemplating some exceedingly complex math problem. He looked so dreadfully boring that Ilya had to sniff up another cloud of peppermint just to stay awake.

    Hollander's attention drifted to the scent neutraliser still jammed up Ilya's nose and the small furrow deepened. 'Feeling on edge tonight, Rozanov?'

    Unfortunately, Ilya new dedication to cool detachment kept him from showing the proper level of contempt at that weak chirp. 'I'm saving my energy up for moments that matter, Hollander. Can't say same about you.'

    OR: Still reeling from the day that Shane fled his embrace, Ilya takes up the task of seeing the omega through a badly scheduled heat. As tough as it is to deny his own instincts, it's even harder to not let let the love he feels for Shane bleed over into every act of care.

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    15 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 25

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    Shane is an English landowner, a veteran of the Great War. His wife Rose died in the influenza pandemic in 1920. Now he lives alone in a crumbling manor house, tended only by his garden—roses, mostly.
    Ilya is a 23-year-old Russian botanist, an émigré fleeing the Bolsheviks, who arrives at the manor seeking work. He knows plants; he knows what the soil needs. Shane hires him.
    They spend the season together in the garden: planting, pruning, coaxing life from the earth. The attraction is quiet at first, then undeniable. And in the walled garden, hidden from the world, they create something that neither of them has ever had: a place where they can be exactly who they are.

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    15 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    Shane Hollander is a retired talent scout going on 14 years in a stale marriage with a mate he can barely stand. Ilya Rozanov is new in town and desperate to break into the modeling industry. What will happen when the two meet at the famous Soho House?

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    15 Jun 2026