Vera



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    Shane smiled as he typed a response, then settled back on Ilya’s chest. “You and my mom have to meet up while you’re in town, Sveta. You’d get along so well. You should sit together at the Admirals game.”

    Sveta hesitated. She’d briefly met the Hollanders at Ilya and Shane’s wedding, but they were so swarmed by people offering them congratulations that she hadn’t really talked to them. If it had been Ilya who asked, she would have laughed at the idea. “Really, Ilyusha? You want to introduce me to your in-laws? Are you going to tell them about all the times we hooked up? All the clubs we’ve been to together? How much vodka we used to drink together?”

    But it was Shane who asked, and Sveta had grown to understand just why it was so hard for Ilya to ever say no to him. He was so earnest and sweet. Shane made her best friend happy, and if this would make him happy, she could do it. Probably.

    “Yeah, that sounds nice,” she said quietly.

     

    Or, Sveta believes she is ill-equipped to impress her best friend's husband's parents. She is unfamiliar with Yuna Hollander's game.

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    I made a thousand people love me, now I'm all alone

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    “Hi, so nice to meet you,” the woman said. She had a barely audible Russian accent. “I'm Svetlana. I'm to Ilya what you are to Shane.”

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    At the wedding of one of her many gay ex-boyfriends, Rose meets Svetlana. They develop a fast friendship, but the closer they get, the more confusing their feelings for each other become.

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    “Yes, sweetheart. I’m here.” She tries to school her voice into something neutral, something that hadn’t been up all night, pacing Shane’s luxury hardwoods.

    The place felt haunted without him, not just empty—but expectant. Ginger ale and coke in the fridge, four pieces of salmon marinating in lemon and thyme. There’d been condoms on his nightstand. And lubricant—which was good, wasn’t it? He obviously cared about his partner. Or partners, David had said, unhelpfully.

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    Or: Yuna visits Shane in the hospital.

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    Rose Landry is shooting yet another X-Squad sequel in Montreal this month, and they planned her visit to Shane and Ilya's place in Ottawa ages ago; it's just a weird coincidence that Shane is out for a few games with a shoulder strain, and able to hang out with Rose tonight while Ilya's busy playing a home game against Dallas.

    In which Rose and Shane drink a little too much wine on their girls' night, and Shane winds up with a face full of makeup. It would be a shame if Ilya came home unexpectedly and caught him looking like this!

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