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    Ilya’s hand wraps around his bare wrist and squeezes. Shane barely stops himself from collapsing to his knees.

    The pressure lights up every receptor of his touch-starved nervous system, wrenching a small, pained noise from the back of his throat. Every muted sensation comes flooding back so intensely that it almost hurts. He needs Ilya to hold him down until there’s nothing inside him but quiet. He wants to sink into him and disappear.

    It takes Shane an entire beat to remember where they are. Fighting against the fog in his mind, he manages to drag his gaze up to meet Ilya’s.

    There’s a slow-dawning horror and understanding on Ilya’s face.

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    Or: Shane is in subdrop after their encounter in Vegas. Ilya fixes it.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    “Hollander?!” Rozanov exclaims, carefully dropping him back down.

    Shane doubles over, gasping and wheezing, hands clutching his ribs for dear life.

    “You’re fucking hurt,” Rozanov realizes, wide-eyed.

     

    (or, shane hides an injury in an attempt not to ruin his hookup with ilya)

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    16 Feb 2026

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    You came to Texas to visit your sister. You did not come to: house-sit, blow up a grill, burn a deck, meet the hottest neighbor alive, fix said deck (and various other things) with the hot neighbor, or figure out how to flirt via any available power tool. And yet here we are.

    Aka there's a special place in my heart for pre-outbreak Joel and I need more stories about him.

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    14 Sep 2025

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    When your high-powered marketing career goes up in flames, you find yourself back in Texas and out of options—until your old childhood best friend Tommy Miller offers you a job at his family’s growing construction company. The only catch? His older brother Joel, the project manager with a chip on his shoulder and zero patience for your city-slicker attitude.

    You clash instantly: you’re clever, confident, and painfully corporate. He’s quiet, rugged, and set in his ways. You push his buttons. He pushes back harder. But somewhere between long meetings, late nights, resurfacing memories, hurt, along with one very unexpected work trip… the tension starts to shift.

    What begins as bickering turns into banter. Glances linger. Walls crack. And neither of you is quite sure when things started to change.

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    06 Sep 2025

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    Everyone in the trailer park knows Joel Miller is bad news; his hands haven’t been clean since the death of his daughter. But caged in by your circumstances and the stretching summers of Texan heat, you begin to find reprieve in his cool commands.

    — Joel is the town’s local ne’er-do-well and you're the gum-popping cliché who ought to know better

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    24 Aug 2025