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  1. Public Bookmark 37

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    TK Strand and Carlos Reyes spent years thinking they didn’t deserve happiness, or even a future. But they did – they always did – and now they have it with each other, they can make sure TK’s little brother has a happy future too.


    Jonah frowns up at Carlos, sensing his shift in mood, but Carlos grins at him, which means everything is okay. Jonah mimics the grin in the mirror. “Will my teeth be as big as yours one day, Cawlos?”
    This gets a loud laugh out of him. “One day, yes,” Carlos says.
    Jonah giggles but he’s not sure he’s fully comfortable with the idea. They are awfully large.
    Carlos notices that Jonah’s little backpack isn’t fully zipped up, so he zips it.
    “Thank you,” Jonah says perfectly.
    It makes Carlos ache. Jonah’s speech is coming along beautifully, but for some reason he still remains Cawlos Weyes. Soon, that will fade too, and he will be Carlos Reyes. He’ll nearly cry at his desk when he tells Sam that Jonah can properly pronounce his Rs and THs now.
    “Don’t worry, brother, I understand,” Sam ‘Four Kids’ Campbell will say, making a big, loud thing about passing him a box of Kleenex.

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    27 Aug 2026

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    Alex came with his friends down to Austin, Texas, to help them move into their new home. What he wasn't at all prepared for was the person they ran into while exploring the city.

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    11 Aug 2026

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    When Carlos cancels plans with his parents last-minute, claiming he is sick, it sparks a worry in Andrea that can only be quelled by seeing her boy. When they head over to his condo, armed with soup and enough parental love to nurse him back to health, they find a perfectly healthy, if not slightly guilty, Carlos Reyes. But that is not the only surprise they find.

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    11 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 80

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    “I’ll get it out of you at the airport," TK says, throwing open the passenger door, dumping his bag at his feet, and climbing in.
    Which is when the gun comes into view.
    The gun pressed to the back of Carlos’ head. 
    And the masked man holding it.
    TK’s shoulders go up around his ears as his whole body reacts to the shock of it. “What–”
    Before he can make any rational response, there’s a cloth over his mouth. A cloth that stinks of chemicals. The hand that presses it over his face is strong and merciless, smothering him. The fumes hit his vision in an instant and he slumps into his chair, the blue fabric over his eyes dissolving into a shimmering mass that reminds him spitefully of the Spanish sea they won’t be getting to see.

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    TK and Carlos are held hostage on the way to their honeymoon by a mysterious man who wants information he will get at any cost to Carlos--and which TK can't provide.

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    15 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 15

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    "The building smelled of rot and bleach.

    Carlos would remember that later. He will think about how those two things should not exist together, and yet somehow, here, they do. They both burn into his lungs at a rapid pace when the door is slammed open and again and again with each ragged breath he takes running down the hallway, stale and uncomfortable.

    Clean and rotten.

    Sterile and dying.

    No, they should not be co-existing here. But, to be fair, Carlos should not have to be running down a hallway with his father and a half dozen officers to what he hopes to God is his living husband. He should not have just spent the last week and a half searching desperately for clues and coming up empty.

    He should not have been sent ransom videos of his husband being tortured in his name.

    And most of all, he absolutely should never have received his husbands’s goddamn ring finger in the mail, wedding ring still attached, although a little scuffed.

    So, when Carlos thinks back to that night, the illogical smells of the building are not the most insane and out-of-place things, but they still stand out somehow."

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    06 Jul 2026