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    Born as the second son of a high-ranking officer in the Russian mob, Ilya Rozanov is sent to head the Bratva’s overseas branch in Canada. One day, his father calls with an assignment: shut down their rival operation in Ottawa, a money-laundering front backed by the Japanese Yakuza. He’s given one name to go off of: Hollander.

    Shane Hollander is a graduate student in an MD program specializing in sports medicine. There’s nothing particularly interesting about him, other than the fact that his mother, Yuna Hollander, is the CEO of an arts charity—and the daughter of the chairman of the second-largest yakuza family in Japan.

    Unfortunately for Shane, Ilya gets the wrong Hollander.

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    Rozanov is looking at him intensely, mouth pursed in a smirk, eyes alight. “You eat dinner?”

    “What?”

    “Dinner,” Rozanov says, “Is meal you eat in evening. You have it?”

    “You’re asking me if I eat dinner?”

    Rozanov tilts his head. “My English is not so bad, I think.”

    “No, it isn’t,” Shane says, although he’s still confused by Rozanov’s question. After a beat, where all he can focus on is Rozanov’s thick eyebrows, Shane confirms: “Yes, of course I eat dinner.”

    “Good. Me too.” Rozanov is still smirking. Shane’s starting to think it might be his default expression. “We have that in common: playing hockey and eating dinner.”

    Or: Five times Ilya Rozanov tried to ask out Shane Hollander, and the one time he succeeded.

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    Well, it is indeed a cat.

    A morbidly fleshy, sack of skin, bones, and fat sort of cat. Ilya’s never seen anything like it. He’s seen cats that were overtly fluffy, some who were much too fat for what their bones could handle. He’s seen cats who had pearls for eyes and coat patterns that never seemed possible.

    But never in his life has he seen a cat who has nothing at all. No fur, nothing that makes the cat a furry feline friend. This cat is simply skin and wrinkles, like someone had decided they wanted to try and make a human baby cat hybrid. Its fat is all in the wrong places, pudgy at its stomach yet lean around its limbs. Its neck is just wrinkles, there is no smoothness to it.

    “Shane— malysh, that is not a cat.”

    When Shane and Ilya finally agree on getting a cat, Ilya is expecting a docile, furry feline who wants to cuddle with him all day long. He’s greeted by the complete opposite and Shane doesn’t see the issue.

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  4. Public Bookmark 77

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    Ilya Rozanov never imagined he would be learning to play hockey at the age of 25, but when he sees an ad for a five-week course, he signs up.

    He ends up being the only adult in a line-up full of kids with dreams of going pro. That's not him - not anymore - yet something keeps him coming back each week: their coach, Shane Hollander.

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  5. Public Bookmark 72

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    recursion (noun) : an algorithm used in iteration where the program goes a step deeper into itself with each loop until a condition is met

    As Shane stares across the club under the flickering lights at Ilya Rozanov, he thinks this might be the worst day of his life.

    Then he has to do it all over again.

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