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  1. Rec *

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    From the road, Ava could only make out their broadest features: a woman in a white tank top, her muscled shoulders tanned from the sun, an axe dangling casually in one hand. She had already placed a log in front of her, and as Ava watched she lifted the axe above her head and swung it downwards in a single fluid motion, the taut muscles of her arms working so perfectly with the axe they might have all been one. The log split easily into two, as though she were cutting through paper, and the woman picked up the two halves to place them into a neat stack nearby.

    “Ah,” Schaefer said, catching the line of her gaze, “That’s Beatrice. Your new neighbor. Don’t mind her too much, she’s a little… eccentric.”

    Ava liked eccentric. She also liked women who looked like they could tear her in half without too much effort. She had a feeling she was going to like Beatrice a lot.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    When Suzanne tasked Beatrice with making the guest house handicap accessible for the new bookkeeper coming to Cat's Cradle Ranch in a few weeks, she was expecting someone much older - someone who wouldn't get in her way. Someone she could maybe share a few good books with.

    What she didn't expect was for the beautiful and vibrant Ava Silva to roll out of the van that day and completely change her life.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    She could find someone, a more genuine date, she knows she could, but it'd be an unknown, a variable too out of her control. Something she's had a frighteningly tenuous grasp on lately as it is. She'd rather spend the money, have someone who knows what they're doing, and knows what she wants.

    A professional.

    Hence, the headshots on her laptop. Terrible fucking idea.

    She huffs in frustration, in indignation, in indecision. She sets her wine down to slam the thing closed in righteous anger but her hand freezes on the top of the laptop.

    It's the mustache that catches her eye.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    “Are you done?” he asks.

    “Yes.”

    “Are you sure?”

    “…Yes.”

    Nigel nods. Says, very mildly, to the wall and not to her: “You have spent half an hour telling me why he is wrong for her; and not once have you told me who you think would be right.”

    She opens her mouth.

    She closes it.

    A small, traitorous thought slips in sideways before she can shut the door on it. She shuts the door on it.

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    Or the one where Emily and Andrea are friends. Great friends. Best friends. Just friends.

    So why the fuck does Andrea want to pull her hair out at the thought of Emily having a boyfriend?

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    07 Jun 2026

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    They say Rio is predictable. She’s cool, yes, and she’s confident, definitely, but she’s predictable. Reliable. You look at Rio, and you know exactly what to expect.

    That ends with Agatha. And so does everything else.

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    Not jealousy, not lust, but a secret third thing.

    (Obsession. All-consuming, toxic, swallow-your-tongue obsession.)

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    07 Jun 2026