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    Shane Hollander is the most respected hockey journalist in Canada. He's been covering the Boston Raiders for three years. He has interviewed Ilya Rozanov fourteen times in a professional capacity. He has written 47,000 words about Ilya Rozanov's career. He has approximately zero words for what happens when Rozanov corners him in a hotel corridor after Game 7 and says, very quietly, in that voice: "You always leave before I can talk to you." Shane has absolutely no idea what to do with that.
    (Or: Shane doesn't play hockey. He just writes about the man who does. It is, objectively, worse.)

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Shane Hollander is the guy standing beside every wedding, delivering every speech, and fixing every crisis. He’s indispensable to everyone else’s happiness… except no one ever really asks what he wants for his own.

    Until Ilya Rozanov, a cynical journalist with a dismissive view of marriage and everything it represents, crosses paths with Shane and decides to use his life as the subject of a feature on the “eternal best man,” a stepping stone toward more serious journalistic work, without Shane ever suspecting his intentions.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    “What is there to talk about?”

    “What’s there to talk about?!” Hollander scoffed, shaking his head. “You’re playing for my fucking team!”

    “I know.”

    “Why did you have to go and get traded?! You realise we’re going to have to see each other every day from now on, and play together, and-”

    “Yes,” Ilya interrupted. He didn’t want to know how long Hollander’s list was. “I know.”

    Hollander took a deep breath. “Okay, listen,” he said. “Just so we’re clear - we don’t know each other outside of playing against each other, right?”

    “Right.”

    “And we can’t- can’t hook up anymore.”

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    OR: Ilya gets traded to Montreal in October 2014. He's lonely, and angry, and he misses Boston. He doesn't know if it helps that Hollander is there or not.

    title from Buckle by Florence and the Machine

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Shane stares up at the ceiling for a second, blinking slowly, the dim lamp blurring his vision at the edges.

    “This is so embarrassing,” he says again, quieter now, like the words are losing some of their meaning.

    “It’s not,” Ilya replies.

    “It is,” Shane insists, though there’s no real energy behind it anymore. “I came up here to find a bathroom and instead I ” he gestures vaguely, not even opening his eyes. “All of this.

    “You drank too much,” Ilya says. “It happens.”

    “Not to me,” Shane mumbles. “I don’t do this, I don't kiss strangers, I never have more than one drink. I hate not being in control”

    There’s a slight shift beside him, the mattress dipping as Ilya leans back a little, closer now.
    “First time for everything.”

    Shane huffs softly. “I don’t think this is a good first time.”

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    the frat boy x nerd college situationship of my dreams (humiliationship)

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    30 Apr 2026

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    Shane Hollander is hockey’s closeted golden boy with everything to hide. Ilya Rozanov is a professional Dom with everything to lose and an expired visa.

    Through their arrangement at a discreet Montreal kink bar, where NDAs protect secrets and sessions are charged per hour, they discover the most dangerous thing isn’t being caught—it’s wanting more than those hours allow.

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    26 Mar 2026