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  1. Public Bookmark 62

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    Smoke. That’s it. Booker smells so good because he doesn’t smell like smoke. “You smell good?” Nicky says again, still confused.

    Booker laughs. “Thank you again? You’re really tired, Nicky. Do you need help? With the baby?”

    “I mean, not that you don’t smell good. Like your cologne, and your cooking. But. No smoke?” Nicky asks. Fuck, he’s so tired.

    “Oh. That,” Booker says. He sounds. Hesitant? Nicky’s not sure. His brain is fuzzy. “I quit,” Booker continues.

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    11 Jun 2021

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    Current-day Nicky wakes up one morning to find himself re-living the first day he met Yusuf in 1099, and Nicolò from 1099 finds himself with a stranger named Joe in 2021. Time-crossed and facing old and new challenges, the two lovers have to find their way back to each other.

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    03 Jun 2021

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    Too late, Booker realizes he‘s shown his hand. It’s not purposeful, he just can’t help the way his eyes go entirely too soft, watching Joe chat with the waitress who had just dropped every single one of their drinks. He’s telling her about his ill-fated job at a bar in their second year of university, making her laugh through her tears and helping her mop up the mess of spilled beer.

    Booker’s just about to get up and help them, he is, but he’s taking a single moment to wallow in how kind Joe’s smile is. He also apparently remembers Joe’s time as a bartender very, very differently, than Joe. Joe is currently describing himself as a naïve, hapless twenty-year-old who could never remember drink orders and broke more than a few glasses trying to be smooth. Booker does not recall it like that at all. He forces himself up at last, grabs a stack of napkins off the empty table next to them and goes to help, but he’s a split second too late.

    Nicky’s coming back from the restroom with a pile of paper towels in his hands, and he’s staring straight at Booker.

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    26 May 2021

  4. Public Bookmark 89

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    “Book, look at yourself,” he says. “This is fucking sad. They’ve already lost their mom. Now they’re gonna lose you, too?”

    Booker can’t look at Joe. He can’t see those eyes— Sophie’s eyes— so concerned and so sad and so disappointed. “Fuck off,” he says. “Get the fuck out of my house.”

    Joe shakes his head. He bends over and saddles a duffel bag on his shoulder. “You want your sons back?” Joe says. “Get sober. Then we’ll talk.”

    Fourteen months after the death of his wife, Booker hits rock bottom. But he didn't know that getting sober would mean gaining so much more.

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    24 May 2021

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    “Nicolo would never risk the fates of children over his own.”

    “And look where that got him!” Andy roars, her throat burning with a desperate rage that has nothing to do with the pills, and right there, in that precise moment, she watches, devastated, as the words carve ruin into Joe’s grief-stricken face.

    She hears the tiny intake of Booker’s breath, sees the even tinier lift of his shoulders towards his ears.

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    An Old Guard, incomplete, and how they find each other again.

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    01 May 2021