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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    _”I love you, do you know that?” He asked the night, and the birds, and the foam, but mostly Armand. His Armand.
    _”Are you certain?”

    In Dubai Armand screams, his shoulders hunched, and tears at his hair with clenched fists.

     
    Daniel forgets. Daniel remembers.
    Armand forgets as well. Armand remembers. Armand runs.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    The best way to describe this work, I think, is as a novelization of the television series told from Ilya Rozanov's point of view. What happens in the series will happen, more or less, in this work.

    Please note, I did read both Heated Rivalry and The Long Game by Rachel Reid, but that was some time ago and my recollection of them is spotty at best. Because they are novels and this is a written story, I did NOT consult the books in order to reduce the chance that I would inadvertently plagiarize them. That means that where the television series leaves a gap in the narrative, I may fill it with something very different than what happens in the books. We will all end up at the cottage, but some of us are taking a slightly different path to get there.

    This novelization means that potentially triggering things that happen in the series (like mental health issues) will happen in this work. NOTE, HOWEVER, no new issues will be added in this work. No one dies. No one is outed. No one is assaulted. This is just the story of the show as if it were from Ilya's point of view.

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    05 Feb 2026

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    Shane Hollander is worried about everyone and everything.

    Ilya is mostly just sick of air travel.

    Or:
    Shane and Ilya are having trouble balancing their very private relationship and their very public lives.

    A slice of life.

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    27 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    "Why'd you want to come here tonight?" Andy asks him. "Honestly."

    "Honestly?" Novak echoes. There are crows feet around his eyes, deepening wrinkles and grey in his hair. Andy looks at the man he's known for a quarter-century and sees the boy he met at twelve, that same flash of a grin when he says,

    "I wanted to play you again. Here." Novak looks out at the enormous silence of Centre Court. Moths dance beneath the yellow lights. "I wanted to be here with you, one more time."

    Andy, Novak, and a late-night conversation before Wimbledon.

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    26 Jan 2026

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    Something isn’t right. Something isn't right and Svetlana knows it, and she's lost far too many good things by not trusting her instincts. Ilya leaving with a woman in public? That's expected. Ilya leaving with a man in public? Sure, it's happened before, even if the public wasn't actually aware of what they were looking at. 

    But leaving for a threesome, in public? In a bar where anyone could be taking photos? Don't make her laugh - Ilya would never. 

    And then it hits her:  
    Ilya's slight stumble;
    The way he only had three drinks over the past two hours, barely enough to get him tipsy;
    The way he's not even holding the girl or the guy's hand.
    The way he's not even trying to kiss either of them. 
    The way he keeps pulling slightly against the girl's grip like he can't understand what's happening. 
    Shit.

    Ilya's been fucking roofied.

    Or, Ilya gets roofied at a club and Svetlana needs to him someone who can care take of him. Luckily, they're in Montreal, where Ilya's illusive Jane lives.
    Surely she'll be able to help!
    ...Right?

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    12 Jan 2026