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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    "You met His Highness yet?" Dry Devil asked, leaning against his pitchfork."...Who?" Henry asked, sweat running down his face. The heat was unbearable to the point he could barely feel himself sucking in desperate breaths of air.

    As if on cue, the door to the main house banged open and a blonde man of around Henry's age strutted out, he was wearing a yellow shirt with black checkers, aviators perched over a perfectly straight nose and a white cowboy hat.

    "Hans Fucking Capon." The Dry Devil actually spat on the ground, "He's set to inherit the whole thing once the world ends or his uncle fucking croaks it."

    Henry watched as Hans jumped down the last two steps, his head swiveling around as he looked at his surroundings with the air of someone who knew who he was and the position he held.

    Oh. So that was the famous Hans that Henry was supposed to work with.

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    03 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    A year and a half since the accident that claimed his parents and fiancée, and only months after nearly ruining his career, Henry is given a final chance to salvage his life as a professional baseball player. Hope blooms with the arrival of spring, and Henry finally reaches for the light at the end of the tunnel. This contract may be the fresh start he's needed.

    Having fought tooth and nail just to get where he is—and only wanting to play the game he loves—Hans believes his actions that day on the mound were justified. His career is a ticking clock and any set back is a step closer to a retirement he so desperately fights against. This demotion may be the end of him.

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    02 Aug 2026

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    in progress, last ch 6

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    Passing stranger! You do not know how longingly I look upon you. You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking (it comes to me as of a dream).

    When Hans Capon is shipped out West by his uncle, he didn’t expect his train to be robbed nor to be held at gunpoint by an annoying cowboy with a bandana over his face.

    It was maybe the best thing that had ever happened to him.

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    02 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    Forty, empty, tired and dying - that's how life finds Henry on one fateful stormy morning.
    He is about to give up, forgoing his incomplete revenge, welcoming death with open, albeit exhausted arms. He is too old for this crap now, and he killed all the big fish anyway.

    What luck then, that his last remaining target - Sir Hans Capon who had so horribly wronged the refugees - decides to show up and save his life on a pure whim. And maybe drag Henry to Rattay as well.
    With renewed will to live, Henry decides to finish what he had started twenty winters ago and stab that bastard the first chance he gets.

    … he just didn’t expect to have competition.

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    02 Aug 2026

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    in progress, last ch 2

  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    “I don’t know,” Hans mumbled. “Is there anything you’re not comfortable with?”

    Henry had a hard time picturing ever being uncomfortable around Hans. Out of all the emotions he’d suffered since meeting him, that wasn’t one of them.

    “I don’t think so. And you?”

    Hans was silent for a moment, eyes fixed on the windshield. And then, just as Henry was about to return his own gaze to the scenery, Hans spoke in a low voice, barely louder than the music coming off the speakers.

    “Can I kiss you?”

    “Yes,” Henry said, the word escaping him before his heart had even had time to jump.

    Hans finally glanced at him then, a small smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. His freckles popped against the rosy of his cheeks. Henry had always liked the color his skin took on sunny days.

    Then, Hans grinned. “Eager, are you?”

    And there it was. No, Henry couldn’t picture being uncomfortable around Hans. Exasperated, however, he had no problems imagining.

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    Henry wants to fit in in Radzig's upper-class world. Hans wants to avoid being pressured into an arranged marriage. What other possible option could they have but to pretend they're in a relationship?

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    14 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    in progress, last ch 5