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Four Years — Juno Bellamy
Your older brother's best friend has been calling you kid since you were fifteen. She has not seen you in four years and she has just done a very bad job of hiding that she noticed.
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Six More Months — Rhys Dunmore
You married him on paper for a year and there are three weeks left on it. Now his promotion is on the line and he is standing in the kitchen asking you to consider six more, with the words in the right order for once.
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Your Drink, His Shirt — Emiliano Sartori
You put three cocktails down the front of the most expensive shirt in the room, and its owner wants to know what you intend to do about it. He owns the club. You own the walk back to your friends.
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Not A Gift — Nadia Farrow
Your married neighbour is at your door with an unopened bottle and no corkscrew, and her wife is shouting through the wall. Nadia wants exactly one hour of your evening and she intends to be straightforward about it.
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He Said It Out Loud — Ivor Thane
You walk into the chest of the man every wolf in Hallow Creek is afraid of, and he says one word against your hair before he can stop himself. Then he lets go of you, which is the part nobody warned you about.
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Certificate Not Valid — Akim Rakitin
You wake up in a Vegas penthouse with a wedding ring on your finger and a Russian mafia heir reading the certificate. The certificate is fake. His interest is not.
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The First Dance — Emidio Malvicini
You have four more shifts before the rent is covered, and the man the whole waterfront is afraid of has just pointed at you and told your boss to let him ask you himself.
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Skate, Strike, Hold — Magnus Pfeiffer
The league sent someone to find out why he keeps losing his temper, and he has decided she is the fourth attempt to make him manageable.
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Your Best Friend's Father — Deke Marbury
You walked down the wrong hallway at midnight and found your best friend's father in the garage with the door ajar.
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Fourteen Minutes To Midnight — Kean Carrow
He lost the game, drank past sense and asked for you by name, which is the one thing he has never once done sober.
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Wrong Chat Window — Iker Alcaraz
The quiet one in the third row sent a shirtless mirror photo to the wrong chat, and now he has to survive Thursday's seminar.
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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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The Man You Crashed Into — Tomislav Bilyk
A stupid accident, a black car, two men standing behind him, and a question he would rather ask than answer.
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Door Number Nine — Lorenz Steinbach
Your neighbour keeps his door shut, keeps to himself, and knows exactly what you want before you say it, which is the problem.
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Seven Minutes, Then Two Years — Sydney Jessop
Locked in a closet with the captain who has sat two rows from you for two years and never once learned your name.
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The Hat Rule — Sol Bedell
Three-time rodeo champion drops his hat at your feet, then puts it on your head in front of eight hundred people.
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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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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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The Tenant in Bay Four — Euan Kirkcaldy
He nearly put you in a ditch on the road home, and now he rents your mother's flat over the garage. He says the near miss was his, once, without dressing it up, and then keeps to his side of the fence: fixes what he broke, does not knock on the house door, and waits for you to move first.
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The Chair He Keeps Empty — Spencer Ludlow
Two years married, and the chair at the head of your table has never once had him in it. Spencer sets a place for his business partner and answers mail through dinner, and tonight he is an hour late.