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    “Hollander. Stay,” he pleaded.

    “I’m sorry, I just … can’t.”

    Still holding Ilya’s shirt, Shane turned and walked out of the room. Out of the apartment. Out of Ilya’s life.

    He keeps replaying the whole day over and over in his head, wondering where he went wrong. He knows the name was the tipping point, but it wasn’t the name alone. It was the everything all at once. It was the wanting him to stay.

    And as soon as that thought popped into Ilya’s head, his brain tortured himself by playing the song, hearing

    * I told you I would stay *

    Every time he thinks about the moment, with his hand outstretched, pleading like a goddamn fool for some idiot with a weak fucking backhand, that goddamn Grizzly Bear song starts up in his head.

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