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    After the tuna meltdown, they never really get the chance to get back together, only watching each other’s lives from a distance, occasionally reaching out through texts, pretending it’s enough.

    Until one day, Shane receives a package at his doorstep.
    It’s a book. It’s Ilya Rozanov’s memoir.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    “Shane, honey, is there someone there with you? Where’s Hayden?” Shane shook his head even though she couldn’t see him.

    “No, I’m alone,” he said.

    “You shouldn’t be,” Yuna said.

    “I have to be, Mom,” he said harshly. “No one knows.” Sure, there was Hayden, but he was probably on the phone with Jackie, reading their kids a bedtime story like he did almost every night. Other than his best friend, no one knew, and no one ever could. Shane would have to grieve Ilya like this for the rest of his life. Privately. Secretly.

    After the Centaurs’ plane seemingly vanishes into thin air, Shane knows that his life will never be the same. Not only that, but it will pause. He doesn’t have a future without Ilya. Still, time passes. With it comes more changes than Shane was expecting, one being in the form of a positive pregnancy test.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    Ilya had ended their relationship, or whatever it had technically been, only weeks after Shane was seriously injured on the ice. He’d visited him in hospital, said he would maybe, maybe, come to his cottage that summer, and then never did.

    They don’t speak again. Not properly... at least not in any way that counts. Time passes anyway. Seasons move on.

    Now it’s August 2018, and suddenly they’re back in the same space again.

    So what happens now? What's Ilya supposed to do with something that doesn’t feel finished?

    Especially when Shane has… moved on.

    Because, boo! There’s Casper.

    CHAPTER 10 - SHANE'S POV - PART I

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    05 Jul 2026

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    A stray kitten breaks into the Hollander house on Christmas Eve and steals a butter tart. Shane texts Ilya about it. This is a love story, somehow.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    Shane sees his ex at a cafe and texts what he thinks it’s a dud number to look busy, little does he know it belongs to Ilya. Shane uses the thread to use as a reminder for stuff he has to do. Ilya enjoys reading what this mysterious man does until he gets a text at 3am.

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    05 Jul 2026