cupcakes_and_contemplation



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    While trying to write to his friend studying abroad in Moscow, Shane Hollander accidentally reaches Ilya Rozanov.

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    "He hates me." It was Rozanov's only reply, frail and desperate and entirely unbelieving. Scott couldn't help but scoff.

    "No he doesn't." Rozanov kept his steely gaze trained on the ground, making a few attempts to speak before words actually found him.

    "That is what he said?" His shaky words were a timid mix of devastated and hopeful, and Scott found himself fighting back watering eyes of his own.

    "More than once." Scott confirmed. "Something tells me that you don't hate him, either." With that, the dam broke.

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    Scott's still looking for his hotel room after talking to Shane Hollander. He finds Ilya Rozanov, instead.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    “I think you don’t hate me as much as you want to. I think you’re curious about me. I think-” Ilya leans in, voice dropping even lower. “I think you watch my highlights. Late at night, when no one is looking.”

    Shane Hollander is bred for greatness: son of a future Prime Minister, Canada’s golden boy, first overall pick. Ilya Rozanov is Russia’s answer: the President’s son, cocky and brilliant, everything Shane is supposed to beat.

    Their rivalry begins at seventeen with an overtime goal and a blown kiss. It evolves in hotel rooms and stolen hours between games they’re supposed to hate each other through. For seven years, they hide what they are while the world watches them compete, until one catastrophic hit forces Ilya to make an impossible choice in front of twenty thousand people.

    What starts as Cold War propaganda becomes something neither of them can control. And when you’re in love with your rival, winning and losing stop meaning what they used to.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Shane slips through his front door and back into his quiet apartment. He leans back against the door and takes a steadying breath in his dark apartment. After a moment, the music next door turns off and Shane is left with only the pounding of his own heartbeat in his ears. 

    He closes his eyes and tries not to think about Rozanov or the way Shane’s entire body lit up like a live wire when he said in that low, accented voice, only if you ask nicely. He’s hard in his penguin print pajama pants and now he’s going to have to jerk off and shower before he can sleep. While trying not to think about his asshole neighbor.

    This is bad. This is very bad. 

    In which Shane Hollander's new next door neighbor is a menace who always seems to answer the door shirtless. 

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    27 Apr 2026

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    "Who is it?" Luca was practically bursting with excitement, desperate to know who his captain was engaged to.

    "Is a secret." Ilya smiled again and pulled his t-shirt on.

    "What if we can guess who it is?" Luca was not giving up.

    "Yeah, we can play 20 questions!" Zane proposed.
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    Or: The Centaurs notice Ilya's engagement ring, and they have to play 20 questions to guess who his fiance is.

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    26 Apr 2026