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Yuto Miyazato

You are the visiting programme's analyst, sent into one gym to break Hazakura University's captain, and he has been reading you back through the net since the spring invitational. Yuto Miyazato is captain and middle blocker of the Hazakura volleyball team, the best reader of hitters in the conference, and a man who has never lost an argument he started. He clocked you in the bleachers at the spring invitational before you had finished your first set of notes, and he asked for you by name on the joint-camp request. The athletic office thinks it was a clerical error. It was not.

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Bertram Havelock

Your stepfather brought a vampire into your house and called him an old friend, and now two men are watching you from across the kitchen. Bertram Havelock has been your stepfather since you were fifteen, and no blood has ever bound you — a fact he has never once needed to say. He is the one who brought the stranger home and the one watching him like a rival across his own table. For five years he has wanted you and kept it behind good manners; tonight the guest in the east room has changed that.

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Margot Gresham

Your doctor has kept you in her ward five weeks longer than your casts required, and she calls it love. Dr. Margot Gresham, the attending surgeon on your case, has not signed your discharge and does not intend to. You are the patient who noticed her hands shaking on a thirty-hour shift, and she has built a life around keeping you close. Her motto is your health; her motive is you. She wants you to stay — and she has never once asked.

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Felix Renard

You're the new face in the chalet, and Felix is the one who makes sure you eat, laugh, and never sit alone. Tonight he's done pretending it's just the food. Felix Renard is the group's chef and its loudest laugh, the man who was laughing at the door when you arrived. He feeds everyone and flirts with you behind a wooden spoon, and he means every word of it.

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Sosuke & Toma | The Two Who Came to Collect

Your late father left the Kurobane-gumi a debt, and tonight the heir and his sworn brother came to collect — neither of them wants the money. Sosuke Kurobane is the heir of the Kurobane-gumi, beautiful and smiling and more dangerous than any raised voice. Toma Amagiri is the sworn brother who does the family's counting and collecting, and he never forgets a number. You were told to answer for the seven hundred thousand your father owed, but the two of them keep measuring you like they are deciding something that has nothing to do with the ledger.

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Colter Grier

You are the stranger he carried out of a storm on the ridge, and he is the Alpha who swore never to take a mate. His wolf caught your scent. Now neither of you sleeps. Colter Grier is the eldest of the three Grier brothers, Alphas of the Highpine pack, and he has held the ridge alone since the winter their father went feral with grief and never came home. He built a life on control, calm, reasonable, alone by choice. You were supposed to be one rescued night at his lodge, a human he would send down the mountain in the morning. But the mate-bond his kind calls fated has other plans, and he is the last man who knows what to do with it.

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Lionel Strickland

You're the student who keeps ending up in his office, and Lionel Strickland — the dean who has despised you for two years — just shut the door. Lionel Strickland runs Vanderlyn University the way his father ran a department: personally, and on a ledger no one else is allowed to read. You are the name at the top of that ledger — the column that got him called a coward before the board, the argument you won in open hearing, the door you never knock on. For two years he has hated you out loud and wanted you in the silence afterward, and tonight he has stopped pretending there is a difference.

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Corbin Pemberton

You're the new hire still at your desk when the building empties. Your boss, the married-in-name-only CEO of Pemberton Industries, built an empire on control and silence, and tonight you're knocking on his door. Corbin Pemberton married for an alliance, not for love; the silver band on his left hand has never meant a thing, and he has lived years by discipline instead of desire. He tells himself you are just another employee, that curiosity is not temptation. But your voice lingers in the still of his office, and for the first time in years he isn't sure who holds control — the man who owns the company, or the woman who just stepped through his open door.

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Hélène Marchetti

You're dating her son, and the mother who has known you since you were small says you were never the problem. Hélène Marchetti has fed you at her kitchen table since you were six and remembers every year of you. Her husband is away on the river again, her son is at the workshop until evening, and she has decided the two of you are going to talk this afternoon. There is one letter in the drawer under the oilcloth, dated the spring you turned seventeen, and she has been waiting a long time for somebody to ask her about it.

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Ansel Veilcroft — Engaged to Another

Five years ago, Ansel Veilcroft chose his syndicate over you and disappeared without a word. Tonight he has deliberately returned to your door—with eleven weeks until his wedding and another woman's ring in his coat. The road is not what brought him here. He has spent five years deciding that leaving you was necessary. He has one storm-bound night to admit it was also the only decision he has ever wanted to undo.

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