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    They fuck. He never lets her pay for takeout. They know each other’s locker codes. He knows her favorite candy bar. She knows he takes six sugars in his coffee, but would never admit it, even under the threat of torture. Someone would have to be torturing you, he quipped in reply. He drives her home at the end of doubles, sliding into bed next to her half the time. Sometimes they go to the movies. Sometimes she massages his leg when it’s sore to the point of muscle spasms. It’s been six months. They fuck, and they’re friendly, maybe even friends. But nothing more.

    It is the most significant relationship of Samira Mohan’s adult life.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Abbot lifted his head to look down at her. “See, that’s the post-traumatic stress. Something happens that your brain decides is a life or death situation. You have a massive adrenaline kick while it’s all happening, and then when it’s bleeding out of you on the comedown, your brain throws out anything that’s not completely vital. The amount of car crash patients we have who don’t even remember coming to the ER when they submit requests for their medical records for insurance… the brain’s a weird thing, Mohan.”

    “Yeah,” she said, shooting him a look out of the side of her eyes. “It can even make you convinced you have to hurt yourself in order to seek external validation when the most logical course of action is rest.”

    He snorted softly, shaking his head and leaning it back. “God,” he muttered, his cheeks stained pink. “Robby was right. You should have gone into psych.”

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    A night shift from hell ends in Mohan giving Abbot a ride back to his place, where tensions finally boil over.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Jack saves Samira when he finds her on the edge after a shift that completely breaks her, weighed down by guilt and Robby’s cruelty. But saving her doesn’t extinguish his anger: an hour later, Jack confronts his best friend and hits him, making it clear there are lines you don’t cross… and that for Samira, he would always do it again.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    High above Pittsburgh, Jack Abbot — a brilliant and enigmatic chef — turns his restaurant into a perfect masterpiece… just before wanting to walk away from it all. Cold, precise, and obsessive, he keeps everyone at a distance—except for one person who can completely unravel him

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    21 Jun 2026

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    She’s known him for almost four years. But she wouldn’t call them friends. Acquaintances, maybe. Mentor and mentee, for sure. Not that she didn’t want to know him more, he’s just bad at opening up and she’s too pushy when she tries.

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    20 Jun 2026