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    She’s buying a box of condoms when she meets him.

    “Those are shit, you know,” he says, jerking his chin at the pale purple box in her hand. “Can’t feel anything.”

    She stares at him for a moment too long. The bell above the door jingles merrily as a rowdy group of schoolboys enters the store.

    “Excuse you,” she replies, cheeks turning pink.

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    17 Jul 2026

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    Three times Ghost’s honey soured and one time he sweetened it.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    She knew she’d messed up when he loosened his tie.

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    10 Apr 2026

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    Aleksander returns - wounded - from a trip to the Fjeran border. Alina begins to question that perhaps he’s just in need of some tenderness.

    Alina thinks she knows him well enough, now, to know when the tone of his voice is conveying whether he is truly angry, exasperated with her, in general annoyed - but he sounds exhausted, tonight. She believes that he’s tired, she can somehow feel it in his body, where her hands are pressed to his skin. Can feel it in his power, usually curling around her when she touches him, now docile and quiet.

    “I don’t want to fight with you either,” Alina finds herself saying quietly, studying his dark eyes as they shutter closed and his forehead tips against hers.

    “Then go to bed, Miss Starkov,” Aleksander says, stepping away from her and disappearing as quick as the twilight’s long shadow.

    This is a companion piece to take it all, which I recommend reading first for context!

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    21 Jan 2026

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    A man’s hand, next to the lacy cuff of her cardigan. Mr. Morzova closes it around her and she has another, dizzying second to marvel at how large it is. How much of her arm it covers.

    “You’ve done nothing wrong,” he says like he’s soothing a crying child. “Quite the opposite.”

    When Alina glances over, Ana Kuya is staring at his hand too. It takes her a few seconds too long to look up to Alina’s face.

    “Mr. Morozova would like to—would like to adopt you.”

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    13 Jan 2026