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  1. Public Bookmark 35

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    In 2007, Shane tries to tell a friend that he is worried he isn't straight. He gets some advice.
    In 2011, Shane gets his wisdom teeth taken out and accidentally hints to his mother that he is not interested in girls. She's doesn't get the hint.
    In 2016, Shane gets drunk and tries to get answers from Hayden about not marrying a woman and having a family. He isn't helpful.
    In 2017, Shane actually comes out. Ilya listens.

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    24 May 2026

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    “Wait, shit, is it really dirty?”

    He glances over to Ilya, who is now dutifully collecting cones. “It’s not dirty,” Shane laughs.

    “So what’s the hangup, then?”

    “It’s… kinda hard to translate.” He continues before Bood can call him on that, “it sounds more old-fashioned in English. Or, it’s fine in Russian, more like. It means my beloved. Or darling, kind of. Russian’s hard to translate directly sometimes.”

    “Man. That’s some Bridgerton shit.”

    5 times the Centaurs hear Ilya call Shane a petname, and one time they hear Shane call Ilya one.

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    21 May 2026

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    “This is hard to talk about,” is all he says, though he knows it will amount to nothing.

    Shane’s fingertips are feather-soft on his chest. “You have to.”

    He has to, because Shane and Ilya have this thing, now, this agreement. Nothing is too hard to talk about. Nothing is off limits. They have to be bare, have to surrender the deepest crevice of their soul to one another. And Ilya, for whom this is easier said than done, whose chest carries a perpetual weight, an immovable mass, it’s all worth it – worth the relief smoothing over Shane’s features, the reassurance that he’s not worried anymore, that Ilya can give him this peace, albeit only a fragment of what Shane gives him by just being there when he wakes up. He would never say it, but he thinks that what he has to offer to Shane amounts to nothing – nothing compared to what Shane does, what Shane is, by simply nuzzling into his chest and sighing into his sleep, late at night when all Ilya can do is lay awake and just feel.

    “I need more,” Ilya says. “And is nothing you can do. I need you inside me, and it feels terrible.” He swallows, with great difficulty. God. “I need to– I need to eat you.”

    or, Ilya never knew love can hurt this good

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    20 May 2026

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    “Sometimes I think she sent me you,” Ilya whispers—so quietly Shane may have missed it, were they not so close, sharing the same breath back and forth, parted lips brushing.

    “I love you so much, I think it has to be for two people,” Shane admits, just as quietly. Three, is what he doesn’t say. I love you for the father and brother you deserved, too. I love you with all the love you deserve; with all the love you have deserved from the day you were born, until now, and until the day you are dust, and beyond, which is infinite.

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    20 May 2026

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    Angry tears spring to his eyes and his head spins. His breath picks up.

    Something bad is happening, he thinks.

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    Shane is finally settled into married life with Ilya when ghosts from his past unearth troubling secrets he didn't even know were buried. He's forced to go on an odyssey in search for the answer to one question: what really happened to him all those years ago?

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    26 Mar 2026