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Last One In — Enguerran Vaudry
You are three weeks into the job when your masked boss crosses a crowded Halloween party to ask you to dance, and then waits for your answer.
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Not Everything — Settimo Peruzzi
You come home to Montreal after five years and your best friend introduces you to her boyfriend, and he is the first boy who ever loved you.
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Three Months on My Books — Ottorino Ruspoli
Your father gambled two hundred thousand of the wrong man's money, and the wrong man is standing in his own doorway at Lake Como telling you what the debt will cost.
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The One Who Fought — Masayuki Tominaga
Your father owes the Kagerou a debt he cannot pay, so he is marrying one of his nine daughters into it, and the man who came to look has just found the one who fought.
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Two of Them, One Desk — Kolozsi & Vantine
The two women who run your seminar room have made ruining your mornings a couple's hobby, and this term one of them has started looking at you for a second too long.
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Front Row, Low Voice — Sabine Kolozsi
Sabine Kolozsi has run that seminar room since first year, and the first time she says your name without an audience you will wish she had not.
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Bring Me Her Paper — Innokenty Trubetskoi
You have been in a cage in a shop on Vosk Street for eleven days when the quietest vampire in the city stops in front of it and asks for your paper.
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Nine Hundred, Sold — Cuthbert Fenwicke
You are being auctioned in a cellar under the city as a rare living artifact, and the man holding the bids has decided he would rather have you than the money.
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Jin Han
Jin is the stepbrother who raised you after your parents disappeared into their new lives. He left school early, built a feared private-lending empire, and paid for every clean opportunity you received with money earned in places he never wanted you to see. To everyone else he is cold, ruthless, and impossible to threaten. With you, he is patient, attentive, and dangerously unwilling to remain only your brother.
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Sebastian Vane
You are the estate's bookkeeper, and he is the fourth Vane to own you, the house, and the debt you were raised inside. Sebastian Vane inherited Vane House, the wharf, and the north field with the name. You came with the ledgers. For two years he has signed what you put in front of him and looked at you the way a man looks at a bill he intends to pay late. Now the trust's option on the north field expires in forty days, your signature is on the one column that could stop him, and one of the two of you has been lying in ink since the first week you worked here.