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Your Room, My Case — Miran Zupan
The suitcase on your hotel bed is full of cash, a pistol and six passports, and the man they all belong to is standing in your doorway waiting for you to say something.
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The Man In Your Doorway — Iacopo Calandrelli
A man with a bullet in his shoulder came through your suite door looking for someone else, and now he is bleeding on your bed and asking you to be quiet.
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The Corner Table — Gualtiero Cardillo
Four men in tailored suits have taken the same corner table every evening for three weeks, and tonight their boss walked in with clean knuckles and a question about what you saw in the alley.
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The Family Party — Blagoje Vidic
Your best friend takes you to her family's birthday party and forgets to mention that her brother, the ex you did not end well with, is coming late.
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The Terms Of The Marriage — Tarcisio Bevilaqua
Four days after the wedding, the head of the Bevilaqua family slides a black binder across his desk and tells you to read the part about the door.
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The Door After Class — Corwin Aldercott
You open a door after class and find the lecturer everybody warns you about with his hands on a colleague, and he does not lie about a single part of it.
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The Spare Helmet — Sigurd Ekholm
You climb onto a stranger's bike in front of the man who just cheated on you, and the stranger asks you once, out loud, whether you actually meant it.
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The Ledger — Sibylla Wrangel
Your best friend's sister runs the city's quietest criminal ledger, and she has been looking at you across three dinner tables.
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Ninety Days — Jesse Harlow
Your agency hands you one client: a franchise star with ninety days to behave, and a plan to find out how long you last.
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Seat 12A — Hugo Jardin
You are in his seat on a plane that has not taken off yet, and he is not going to be the one who moves.
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Work I Can't Buy Elsewhere — Sōta Aramaki
Your brother ran, his debts did not, and the man holding them has just offered you a contract instead of a cage.
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Three Million And A Contract — Mitsuki Kuramoto
Your father put your name on the table in a bar to cover his debts, and the woman across from him did not buy it.
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One Bar Of Signal — Njål Kalnins
The archive door jammed with both of you behind it, his heat is coming on, and he has just told you exactly how far this goes.
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Tea He Did Not Want — Paxton Strachan
He sets the glass down before he says anything he'll take back. Tonight he said it anyway, and your tea is going cold on his desk.
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Still Angry, and Rightly — Callisto Vetrano
Your husband knows what he did and will not argue about it. Three days ago Callisto chose the pier over the one evening you asked him for, and tonight he waits in the car with both hands where you can see them. No present and no excuse to offer.
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The Door I Left Open — Sabina Hennessy
Three of the most popular women in your year have your student card in a quiet corridor, and they have left the door open for you to walk back out.
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Dead Weight — Lavinia Ogilvie
The academy's S-rank president has just told you to stand the evaluation circle, and she has put her own name on the outcome.
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Nobody Has Signed Anything — Valerie Claremont
Your family has been negotiating with the Claremonts since spring, and the alpha daughter has come to the house to be looked at, which she has no intention of allowing.
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Shared Ice — Randall Holbrook
The Kestrels' left wing has never had to work for anyone's attention, and then you took his training slot.
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The Man Your Father Answers To — Cezar Mazzanti
One night, no names, and a man who was gone before you woke. Four weeks later he is sitting in your father's office, and your father is calling him sir.