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    Ilya has a crush on his dog's groomer

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    02 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 65

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    Shane: And if I hadn’t come?

    Ilya: If you hadn’t come I probably would have gone home with the girl who was trying to sit in my lap all night long. I do feel a bit bad about leaving her like that.

    Shane: Go find her then. I’m going home.

    Ilya toys with Shane on a night out.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Shane pulled away, grinning to himself, and took his seat across the table. When he was settled, he looked back up to Ilya and had to bite back a laugh.
    His content little smile was long gone, replaced with shock and displeasure. He stared stupidly at Shane, mouth opening and closing like a fish as he struggled to get words out. “Shane, you— I— what?”

    Shane cocked his head sideways in that way Ilya always did when he was being particularly difficult. “What?” he asked. “Is there something on my face?”

    His husband continued gaping at him. He could almost see the little hamster wheel spinning in Ilya’s brain as he tried to come up with words. Finally, almost a full minute later, he managed, “No, there is nothing on your face!”
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    Ilya is the king of rage-baiting, and Shane has had enough. He's learned from the best, after all.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    The bartender slides Alex the whiskey and shot of water before turning her attention to the person behind him. He turns around at the same time as the person speaks, “Gin and tonic” in all rounded vowels, a distinct English accent shining through, and he swears his heart stops.

    “Holy shit,” Alex says before he can stop the words from slipping out of his mouth. “Henry?”

    When Alex is celebrating June and Nora's bachelorette party in Vegas, the last person he expects to see is his ex-boyfriend Henry, who moved back to London nearly a year ago.

    Waking up next to him the following morning, naked and sated with a marriage certificate poking out of his pocket, he starts to wonder if he's truly over Henry.

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    30 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 40

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    Shane reaches into the pocket of his fleece and carefully pulls something out. “Svetlana gave me this. She asked me to give it to you. Tonight.”

    An envelope.

    Cream-coloured and softened at the corners.

    One word on the front.

    Илья́

    Without taking his eyes off the envelope, Ilya leans down and sets his mug onto the wooden floorboards. He stares at his own name as though it belongs to a stranger. He hasn’t seen it rendered in Cyrillics in years; he hasn’t seen it in this elegant, slanted handwriting since he was a boy. It used to sign school notes and birthday cards and little I love you messages tucked into his bag before games.

    “What’s this, Shane?”

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    On Mother's Day, Ilya receives a letter that should have reached him twenty-two years ago.

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    30 Jun 2026