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    Inara has to figure out who she is and who she wants to be.

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    The Swiss National League doesn’t care about the legendary Hollander-Rozanov rivalry. When the MLH can’t negotiate with the Hockey Players’ Union in time to prevent a hockey lockout at the start of the 2015 season, the Zürich Lions jump at the chance to sign both Shane and Ilya to short-term contracts. For four months in Switzerland, they share a team, a line, a house, and a bed. 

    Then the lockout ends in January, and it’s time to go back. Back to different countries, cities, lives. Beds.

    Reentry is harder than expected.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    They lived together for a few months in Zürich. It was a small house, owned by one of the Lions’ owner’s brothers who only ever spent the summer there. Two floors, three bedrooms, a nice kitchen even if someone decided to paint it this fugly yellow color, a tiny balcony overlooking a narrow street that Ilya would smoke out on at least once a week.

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    Kip is hit with a wave of relief when he sees Scott at the front of the crowd, sweat-dried hair a mess from everyone rubbing his head. He’s out of his pads and jersey, in a black Under Armor shirt, Kip has only ever seen in the laundry. He is used to seeing Scott post-shower and change, back at home. The charge of seeing Scott like this, sizzling with energy and salty with sweat, surrounds Kip like a net and pulls him under. He is not used to this feeling, the thrill that courses through him that this Scott—team captain, public figure—can be claimed as his. He wants to do so, but has no idea how to negotiate this new world and new arrangement. Scott scans the room and sees him, eyes bright.

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    Scott and Kip have only been back together, properly, for three months when Scott comes out. Now it's the summer after.

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    21 Feb 2026

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    He looked forward to holding Scott’s hand in public, but maybe, if he’s honest, he did not imagine it as such a spectacle. The simple fact of his place in history. For the rest of his life, he will be Scott Hunter’s boyfriend. No matter what he does with his newly-earned degree, what he accomplishes, this will be the first line of his obituary. There are worse fates for better men, Kip thinks.

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    “You never forget?”

    “No,” Shane breathes out. “No, I never forget.”

    Except Ilya does.

    He forgets his wedding ring.

    And Shane notices.

    Or: Shane gets stuck inside his own head when Ilya forgets his wedding ring.

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    09 Feb 2026

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    For a second, his brain refuses to cooperate. It offers him the image of the ring anyway. The familiar ring that’s always on his finger. Automatic and he can picture it perfectly: warm gold, slightly scuffed from years of wear, catching the light when Ilya moves his hands the way he always does.

    Expressive and careless and alive.

    But it isn’t there.

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    “I was thinking about the honeymoon phase thing.”
    “Yes?” Ilya said.
    “I think it’s different for us. I don’t want us to be all blissful and then only start fighting when we’re back to barely seeing each other. I think it’s good if we figure things out now, when we have the time. Whatever needs figuring out. So we have a solid foundation going into the season. Sort of like training camp.”
    “So this means you will keep getting mad at me for things,” Ilya said.
    Shane smiled, rolled his eyes. “Yeah, exactly,” he said.
    “Good, I find it very hot,” Ilya said, and kissed him.

    An insecure over-thinker and a self-destructive thrill-seeker walk into a relationship.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    “I would’ve brought you breakfast if you’d stayed in bed a little longer,” he said.

    “I know,” Ilya said. “You are very good to me.”

    Shane felt as warm as he would have if he had brought Ilya breakfast.

    “You want to finish mine?” Shane asked. “I’m full.”

    When Ilya nodded he handed over his scraps. Ilya didn’t start eating straight away, though. He said, “Am I good to you?”

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    Still, he’s felt like absolute shit for weeks, and the idea of sitting in his hotel room, where he would probably masturbate, cry, and have another night of fitful sleep, did not make him feel any better. Getting to be skin to skin with Ilya Rozanov did. And surely Rozanov wouldn’t be demanding Shane make a nest in his damn bed if he didn’t fully intend on actually kissing him in it and keeping him there until morning, right?

    Maybe that would be enough to pick Shane up out of this drop, keep it from happening again.

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    After not sending the "we didn't kiss" text, Shane's omega hormones go into distress mode. Despite trying to hide his symptoms and play through the misery, when Ilya Rozanov finds out what's going on, the alpha Shane's body wants most is determined to fix it.

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    25 Jan 2026