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    A place to stir the Hollanov brain soup

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    To the public, the Akhmanovs own a chain of hotels.

    Run under the iron-fist and sharp business acumen of Levi, Kenny’s heir and second-in-command, they are rated as some of the best in the city, the most prestigious. New York gossip blogs comment on the elusive process of booking a suite, difficult even for A-list celebrities with more money in their pockets than thoughts in their brain. Socialites cling to them, snapping photos in front of the grand, golden doors of their plaza, making desperate, greedy bids for connection. For the honor to be affiliated. Levi cares for none of them, and will, if prompted, make it known. The family only deals in money. The family doesn't engage with outsiders. The family, he insists, is a family. Close-knit.

    The family, the gossip blogs say, is as exclusive as an Hermès bag waiting list.

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    After another failed kidnapping, Russian mobster Eren Jäger is tasked with protecting the Akhmanov heiress.

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    26 May 2025

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    But when she comes to me, salt catches on his lip and dries sharp on his tongue, a stabbing throb beneath his ribs as he envisions his end, the one he wants but could never have in any way that mattered, so real he can taste the runoff of the mountains and the phantom press of lips he’s never touched. So undeserved, this moment he dreams of, yet his heart longs for it the way his lungs long for air; unrestrained, and selfish. The twisted, unforgivable urge to turn such a grotesque moment into something resembling beauty. Peace, he vies for, in the midst of destruction. A breath of heaven before the flames pull him under for good.

    I want to see her. He wants to marry her.

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    18 Nov 2024

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    Armin feels his face twist into a snarl briefly, but when he looks at Eren, his eyes catch on his and Mikasa’s tangled hands. Hers are squirming under his grip, and then pull against her stomach in a gesture that makes Armin dizzy for a moment. He sees again that line of red, but—it’s not blood. 
     
    When he sees what it actually is, he almost wishes it was. 
     
    “‘M fine,” Mikasa says. Her breath is coming too fast, too shallow. “Just—cold…”

     

    Eren’s eyes shine with wonder, locked on their joint hands and what’s below them; the red spilling out from the gaps in her buttons.

     

    That is not right, Armin thinks, gut churning. That shouldn’t be happening.
     
    But at the same time, isn’t that just the same old story?

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    Eren lives, and what comes after.

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    Russian translation available here.

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    06 Nov 2024

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    He grabs you from behind the moment the main road is out of sight, his hand over your mouth as he yanks you against him, your back against his front and his arm wrapped securely around your waist.

    “If you scream,” Arthur says, “I’ll snap your neck.”

    ———

    Critique heavily encouraged.

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    05 Dec 2021