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    14 Mar 2026

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    “Can you work with him?”

    Max has to take two drags of his cigarette before he can answer, and even then all he says is, “He knew I was the head chef, didn’t he.”

    Charles has to have known. Even if the news hadn’t reached him that Max had taken over as the head chef of Taureau Rouge, he would not have travelled all the way from Paris to London for an interview at a restaurant without knowing who he’d be working under.

    Still, Charles was the one who broke up with him. Max has to know, for sure.

    “He knows,” Christian confirms softly. “He outright laughed at me when I called and asked him to come work at one of my restaurants. It was only after I said it was Taureau Rouge, working with you, that he agreed to come.”

    Fuck. Fuck.

    Max could’ve gone his whole life without knowing that. He probably fucking should have, because how is he supposed to be normal about it?

    // Max and Charles have history, but it doesn't stop Charles from coming to work as Max's new sous chef. It does mean that everything changes for them both in the space of a single week.

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    13 Mar 2026

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    “You’re not being very sympathetic,” Lando replies. “My roommate is a serial killer!”

    Charles says, unhelpfully, “five months ago you walked into his apartment with no identification, no luggage, and the request for him not to look your name up on the internet, and he let you live with him without even asking if you served in the war. And we are surprised he is a lunatic?”

    Or: Oscar kills people. Lando is legally dead. Someone wants to restart the war.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    At nineteen, Oscar Piastri finds himself always waiting, for a chance, for a seat, for someone to see him. Two years in formula one's reserve shadow has left him questioning if he belongs at all. Every smile feels forced, every test session a reminder that he's replaceable.

    Then he meets Lando Norris. McLaren's four time World Driver's Champion, brilliant, reckless and nine years older. Lando's used to winning. Used to being the one people chase. But when he mistakes Oscar for a fan during a paddock signing, something about the quiet resignation in Oscar's eyes lodges under his skin and refuses to leave.

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    05 Feb 2026

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    They handed him an Omega with ash still in his hair.

    Lando stood barefoot on the marble floor of a city that had swallowed his name, his future, and the scent of the man he was promised to. He said nothing. He didn’t bow. He only stared — jaw tight, eyes brighter than any fire that took his home.

    Oscar Piastri was a commander, not a keeper of hearts. The boy was a war spoil, nothing more. He told himself that, again and again, as days passed and silence turned into glances, glances into questions, and questions into something dangerously close to care.

    The rules of war are simple: Victors take. The conquered yield.

    But Lando has never followed rules.

    And Oscar? He's starting to forget them.

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    20 Jan 2026