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    "You look at me," Ilya said, his voice cracking, "like I have broken your heart."

    "You have," Shane said, the truth torn from him. "You did. Just by existing."

    A tremor ran through Ilya’s whole frame. He stared at Shane, and Shane could see it — the heart remembering what the mind could not. Ilya’s gaze dropped to Shane’s mouth. Lingered. His own lips parted slightly. The air between them changed, growing thick, charged with a ghost of the old electricity, now twisted into something agonizing.

    "I do not know you," Ilya said, a desperate mantra. "My mind does not know you."
     

    OR ; When Shane encounters the man he never stopped loving, he realizes Ilya's body still remembers him even as his mind has already said goodbye.

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