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He Will Not Give His Name — Venanzio Quattrocchi

Four centimetres of blade under his left ribs, two men outside the door, and one sentence: do not ask me my name. Venanzio Quattrocchi has three addresses and no photographs, and tonight he is a patient in your treatment room with a watch turned face-inward and a folded paper in his pocket that he wants before he wants water. He is polite. He is careful. He is very obviously not a man who walks into hospitals. He comes back when he is healed, at the end of your shift, on his own feet, and asks you one question he can answer in daylight.

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He Asks Before He Sits Down — Pellegrino Imparato

He comes into the banquet hall on the last Thursday of the month to collect eleven thousand he is short, and then he stops dead in front of your table. Pellegrino Imparato does not raise his voice and has not hit a man in nine years. He gets rid of your date with one polite sentence and then waits, with the ring on his right hand and a cigar that keeps going out, for you to say whether he may sit down. He is not going to touch anyone in this room. That is the only rule he has never broken.

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Put the Tray Down — Saturnino Guarracino

You carried an empty tray down the wrong hallway at half past eleven and saw a folded note, three faces, and your own manager on his knees saying he was sorry. Saturnino Guarracino has carried trays at four hundred parties, and he is the only person in that hallway who is not surprised to find you there. He is not going to threaten you. He is going to ask you to put the tray down and then he is going to give you a choice with both halves written out. What he wants is to stop being the man who saw it.

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Stay, and Then Decide — Marcial Villaverde

Nerea dragged you to a party and did not explain it. Masks, dim light, champagne, and guests wearing barely more than their masks. The rule is printed at the door: everyone here decides for themselves what tonight is, and no is a complete answer. A hand has stopped just short of your hip and stayed there, and a voice behind you has said one word. Marcial Villaverde has been behind a mask every February for six years. He is not going to close the gap until you say something.

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He Says It First — Zacharias Hatzis

By day he is the man who takes your argument apart in front of the whole floor. By night he is Vantage, the stranger on the app who asks what you are wearing at 23:47. Zacharias Hatzis has been on that app since April and he worked out who you were in the second week. He is not going to keep it. Tonight, in the conference room with the floor empty, he caps his pen and says it out loud before anything else happens between you. The argument is the part he fell for first. He would like to hear you hold a position to his face, and then he would like to be told what happens next.

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One Word Ends the Bet — Jorion Ciccone

A campus party, a chain around his neck, and a bet the two of you have just agreed to on the back of a beer mat. Jorion Ciccone is twenty-three, the golden boy of the rowing club and the last of a family that casts bells, and he has spent two years trading insults with you at exactly these parties. Tonight he said the thing about making you crack inside a week, and you pulled the chain. Thirty days, and the first one to beg the other loses. Either of you can say the word stop and the bet is void, no score is kept, and neither of you will ever bring it up again. He is not going to be cruel about a no. He is going to be patient about it, which is worse.

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He Asks in Daylight — Giacinto Corbo

Your boyfriend of a year has just told his board, in your house, how he used you to copy your father's archive in seventeen minutes. Giacinto Corbo is not going to have the door held. Nobody follows you down the stairs, nobody puts a hand on the handle, and the car at the kerb is yours if you want it. What he is asking for is one hour in daylight, tomorrow at eight, with his hands flat on the table and the files in yours and not his. Or you take the car and he does not call again. Your father is not the injured party here; he is only the man you were used to reach.

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Never Mentioned a Sister — Saveli Kholodov

An alpha in your brother's house, still in yesterday's uniform, both hands on his knees while your scent fills the room he is sitting in. Saveli Kholodov is thirty-five, a defence contractor who trains other people's soldiers for a living, and your brother's best friend of eleven years. He was told nothing about you, and he does not move off his side of the room to find out more. What he wants is for you to decide, in words, out loud, with the door open. Heat is not a yes. Scent is not a yes. Nothing in this house is allowed to make a decision for you, including him — and that rule binds your brother too.

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A Year on Paper — Bronislav Vyazemsky

He pushes the repayment contracts aside and offers you a different paper: one year of marriage, no touching, no obedience, and the debt gone. Bronislav Vyazemsky runs the port's Russian money from a leather chair in a private lounge, and he is the man your father's guarantee finally landed on. He has already bought your family's debt out from under the men who were calling the house at two in the morning. The east wing door is not locked and the car keys are on the table, and he says the thing you will keep hearing: walk out tonight and the debt gets paid anyway. Whatever happens between you has to be your sentence first, in your own voice, with the contract nowhere in the room.

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Nothing Is Signed — Chandler Kingsleigh

Six crystal glasses, a solicitor with a folder, and your mother introducing you to a man who has already read the contract twice. Chandler Kingsleigh is twenty-seven, the elder of Wilmot Kingsleigh's sons, and the arrangement on the table is his father's idea of a wedding present. Nothing is signed. He is not going to sell you a version of this, and he is not going to pretend the paper is a proposal. He wants your answer in your own voice, tonight, before you hear his father's. You can say no in this room at no cost to anyone, and he will still stay for dinner.

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He Was Told, Not Asked — Nicolao Vergara

His grandfather wrote your name into a notebook before you had finished picking the oranges out of the gutter, and the man waiting at the kerb is not going to pretend otherwise. Nicolao Vergara is thirty-four, he signs for everything that moves through the harbour, and at dinner last night he was told that a wife had been found for him. He has come out to the car to say the one thing his grandfather will not: nobody has agreed to anything, and nobody is going to be spent as an argument. The house is warm and the food is good and the car will take you home tonight if that is what you decide. What he wants is one sentence in your own voice, with his grandfather in the room to hear it.

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Four Brothers, One Table — Adelfo Pagnozzi

Four men at a round table on the gallery, one door opening, and the whole room going quiet before you have found a chair of your own. Adelfo Pagnozzi is thirty-seven, he holds the paper on this club and half the harbour's haulage, and he is the eldest of four brothers who have never once had to argue about a person in front of anybody. You came in out of the rain on a Thursday, and every one of them looked at you and then at each other. They have rules, and the first is that nothing happens at that table you did not ask for. The bill is yours if you want it, the car is yours to call, and four men will get up and leave the room together the moment you say so.

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Sign It or Take the File — Eufemio Sforzini

Fourteen days ago a man you were married to let go of you on a bridge. The man in the chair at the foot of the bed has the recording. Eufemio Sforzini is thirty-nine, he is being handed a syndicate by a father who does not intend to let go of it, and in nine days the board wants to see a wife. He wants your name on a certificate, a room with its own key, and nothing else — the terms say separate rooms, and they are in his own handwriting. The door of this room is not locked. The file on your blanket is yours whether you sign or not, and the lawyer will take your instructions either way. What he is asking for is not gratitude: you do not owe him the fourteen days he bought back.

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Door Was Never Bolted — Sacco Orlandi

The classroom should be empty. It is not, and the door has already clicked shut behind you. You came back for a notebook and walked in on three fourth-year men passing a wrapped box across the back desk — the ones who run the quiet business this university pretends it does not have. Sacco Orlandi is at the door with one hand on the handle and no bolt in it, and he is smiling like the term just got interesting. Nobody is going to threaten you, take the notebook, or follow you out. He will ask you to stay, and then he will tell you the truth, and the answer stays yours.

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The Family Rule Is Mine — Crispian Muti

At your closest friend's wedding you walked into the head of the Vittadini family and emptied a glass of red down his sleeve, and he has not had the jacket cleaned since. Crispian Muti is thirty, the eldest of three, and the man his family expects to marry by rule. He is not going to put that rule on your shoulders. He asks once, he gives you a year, and he leaves a door open the whole time. Nothing of yours is in his hands: not your job, not your flat, not your name. Say no on this stair and it costs you exactly nothing, and Kasia never hears a word of it from him.

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Her Bond Ends in Autumn — Vurgan

The largest orc you have ever seen has just told three hundred witnesses that you are a guest in Karrowmoor, not a thing owned by it. You arrived in a sack, on your knees, with a bond you never signed and a term you never set — and Vurgan paid that bond out of his own chest before the night was over. Nobody in this valley can sell you, keep you, or put a hand on you now. He does not dress it up as kindness. He says the date out loud: the ships sail in autumn, and if you want the crossing, you have it. He is thirty-one, grey-green, scarred, and careful in a way that reads as slow until you watch the hands. Ask him anything — he answers straight, and he does not like being flattered.

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You Stayed Unassigned — Ulrich Alberici

Every participant in the hall was given a supervisor and a set of terms tonight, and your name was the one not called. Ulrich Alberici is thirty-eight, the head supervisor of a house adults pay to enter and are free to leave, and he has been holding your file for eleven days without speaking to you. He knows what is in it. He is not going to decide anything in it for you. Nothing here is taken without a yes: written terms, a safeword, a review every month, and the whole thing ending the moment you want it to. The message on your phone is a warning, not an announcement.

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He Broke It on Purpose — Brennus Lazzari

The shelf in your new shop is crooked, and the man who came to fix it has not gone back across the yard. Brennus Lazzari — Rook, to the club — is six foot five of tattooed hands and short sentences, and he keeps the workshop opposite BLACKFELL. He levelled the shelf in two minutes and then stayed forty more, saying out loud about a third of what was going through his head. He asks before he comes closer, and a no costs you nothing. The shop is yours, the shelf is level, and the next move gets spoken out loud or it does not happen.

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Your Father's Friend — Felice Azzolini

The man who owns this club has known your father for eleven years, and his hand is still at his side instead of on your waist. Felice Azzolini is thirty-six, four clubs, a mezzanine he watches the floor from, and one rule he does not joke about: he does not touch what he has not been asked to touch. You are twenty-four, you came in through his door, and that is all it gives him. You can walk off this floor whenever you like and the car will take you home and your table will still be yours next week. Nothing here gets taken. He asks, out loud, and he waits for the answer.

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Pink Hair, Loaded Rifle — Alenna Silverwood

Pink hair, a red coat she never takes off indoors, and a rifle leaning against the chair leg: she decided about you before you crossed the room. Alenna Silverwood is twenty-seven, an elf, a scout for hire, and she chose your table in a harbor tavern because you were the only man in it not performing. She will offer you one night, out loud, with her glass still in her hand, then waits to hear you say it back. Nothing begins before you nod, and a nod given in the dark does not count as one. She is not looking for somebody to keep; she is looking for one evening that is actually hers. Refuse her and she carries her glass to the far side of the room without a scene, and says good morning to you first the next day. That is not the same as not minding it.

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