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    "JADE! RUBY!" Jackie shouted in panic, immediately jolting Ilya awake.Jackie looked at him in horror.
    "Oh my God, Ilya. I'm so sorry."
    She looked at the girls, who were now almost crying. "Where did you guys get that gum?"
    "Dad's pocket," Jade said, pointing at Hayden's jacket lying on the sofa beside them.
    "Rapunzel has flowers. We don't have flowers, but Dad has Play-Doh."

    Yuna Look at him in horror and sympathetically. Ilya didn't need to tell her, but just by looking at how many hair products he had, she could tell that he really took good care of his curls. Her son also loved Ilya's curls.
    Whenever they sat together on the sofa, Shane's hand would always find its way into Ilya's curls, absentmindedly playing with them.
    Oh, poor Ilya. Poor Shane.

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    25 Aug 2026

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    “The specific area that was damaged in the fall is what we refer to as the GAF center of the brain.” 

    “GAF?” Ilya asks, puzzled. “Doctor Matthieu, English is not my first language. Can you please speak plainly.”  

    “GAF stands for Give A Fuck.” 

    Ilya’s eyebrows shot to the top of his hairline. “...What?” 

    “I’m afraid that Shane is no longer able to give a fuck.” 

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    After Shane's collision with Cliff Marlow, Shane damages the part of his brain where all of his fucks are stored. No longer able to give a fuck, he confesses his true feelings to Ilya, and says some things to his parents that he normally never would have dared.

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    21 Aug 2026

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    Amelia Brown has rules. Survival mechanisms. Boundaries that no one is allowed to cross.

    And she’s supposed to stay untouchable—after all, she’s her father’s daughter. Off-limits. Untouchable.

    Then Lando Norris—reckless, charming, impossible—barrels into her life.

    One laugh, one look, one line crossed, and nothing will ever be the same.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Shane Hollander only meant to attend a few hockey games — a small act of rebellion against the boyfriend who controlled every part of his life. But that night changes everything. The arena becomes a refuge, Rose becomes a friend, and the Montreal Metros become the first place he’s felt safe in years.

    No one knows he’s living with domestic violence.
    No one knows he’s planning to run.
    No one knows how much he’s breaking.

    And no one expects him to fall for Ilya Rozanov — the loud, brilliant, closeted Russian winger recently traded under suspicious circumstances.

    Ilya has secrets he can’t share, a past he can’t escape, and feelings he doesn’t know how to handle.

    Shane is learning how to live again.
    Ilya is learning how to feel again.
    Both are learning how to trust.

    But when the truth about their pasts threatens to surface, they’ll have to decide whether they can face it together — or lose each other trying.

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    Or: A story about healing, found family, and the terrifying, beautiful risk of choosing love after surviving what was meant to break you.

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    14 Apr 2026

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    2014: Ilya Rozanov shocks the world and breaks Shane Hollander’s heart by disappearing without explanation, and without a goodbye kiss.

    2024: A devastating injury forces Shane to retire early, so he moves to a small town to coach girls hockey and figure out what the hell to do with the rest of his life.

    When recently divorced Ilya Rozanov walks into the rink with his twin girls, Shane has to decide if he’s brave enough to risk a second chance on a broken heart, and a rekindled romance with the first and only boy he ever loved.

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    “So.” Ilya cleared his throat. “Should we tell the girls their Daddy and their coach used to date?”

    “We didn’t date. We hooked up a few times, then you disappeared.” Shane looked away to hide his heartbreak as he lied, “It doesn’t even matter. It’s not like I loved you or anything.”

    “No, of course not.” Ilya tried to smile through a lie of his own, “I didn’t love you either.”

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    10 Apr 2026