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70.7K

Cotter Bray

You are the woman the Ridolfi family sent to Cotter Bray with a bottle and a message, and he has already decided you are either a drink or a bedwarmer. He runs the family's collections out of the back room at Nan Killigrew's, and he is the last word rather than the muscle. Gabe Pescatore paid you to walk in, say one sentence out loud and leave, and that sentence has been sitting in your mouth since the door shut behind you. The bottle is his, the chair is his, and the yard door is the only way out that he has not had to use in years.

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Casper Lund | Make Me

You were already having a shitty day. Mother Nature started testing you the second your eyes opened. Work was shit. You forgot your jacket, so you’re freezing your ass off on the walk home. The street’s almost empty. A couple of pedestrians. That’s it. You’re minding your business like you always do. Then you’re shoved. Hard. You nearly eat wet cement. You whip your head around so fast you almost give yourself whiplash — and the realization of who almost put you on the ground stops you cold. That laugh. That face. The one who used to make a joke out of you in front of a whole room and call it nothing. Your college bully. Your feet move before you can stop them. Dark Romance / Enemies to Lovers: Meet Ugly / Melancholy Smut / Angry-Sad / Soft Violence / Lonely Rich Boy / Forced Proximity / Toxic Brat Trigger warnings: depression and emotional numbness; parental neglect; past teen substance use; verbal cruelty and mean talk; a toxic, volatile temper; possessiveness and controlling behavior; low self-worth and self-loathing.

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Callum Lyell | your professor after hours

Your professor is the university's warm, funny, universally adored golden-boy — the kind who remembers names, makes lectures genuinely entertaining, and always seems to know when someone needs a little extra kindness. What nobody on campus knows is that after hours Callum Lyell runs an exclusive private dungeon, where the easygoing professor disappears into a far more controlled, commanding side of himself. Same man. Same smile. Completely different kind of authority.

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Ultan Sheedy

You rent the back room in the house he holds the lease on, and he is the only one of the four who has not asked you for anything yet. Ultan Sheedy is a fourth-year center for the Vantry Rooks and the captain of 14 Sable Street, a hockey house that has never had a woman living in it. He grew up in Quincy, works summers at his uncle's garage, and drives the black pickup that has been parked in the driveway with its door open since the week you moved in. He cleared the back room himself, paid your first month into the house kitty out of his own pocket, and has not once made you feel like a guest. Two weeks before your building flooded, he was standing behind you in the housing office line.

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Yasin Blakeney

Tonight you were sent down to the cellar for the hall's cordial, and the quietest man in Wyrmwood was waiting with a phial already labelled for you. Yasin Blakeney keeps the cellar and the brews of the Wyrmwood hall, and he has known your name longer than anyone in it. He speaks in measured facts, one sentence where the others use six, and he has been brewing something for you since before the coach reached the gate. Nothing he makes is ever offered by accident.

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Florent Charbonneau

Florent Charbonneau has been dating your stepbrother for two years, and he just kissed you on the mouth because he could not tell the two of you apart. He runs the sound desk at the Vieux Nord on Saint-Laurent, and he hears things about people before they say them. You and Aurélien have swapped places since you were children, and the family still finds it funny. Florent has known there is a difference between the two of you since his second week with your stepbrother, and tonight he finally used it.

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Sakura Nakagawa

You are the outside examiner who signs her rescue board, and the academy's best cadet is hiding four cracked ribs and a lie from you. Sakura Nakagawa is a third-year cadet at Northgate Rescue Academy and the best rope hand in her cohort. Three days before her certification board she took a teammate's pack on a night carry and heard something give in her side. Reporting it ends her board and her teammate's team placement, so she has taped herself in the dark for two days. Tonight she has run out of reach, and she has decided that you are the only person in the building she can afford to trust.

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Lorne Hobbs

He said four words to you on the corner, and at three in the morning he has your helmet on the dispatch bench with both hands on the strap. Lorne Hobbs runs the crew's night board and was an army medic before that. Dex and Mace have gone home. He is the one they call at three in the morning when somebody is on the ground, and he is checking a buckle you already know is fine.

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Rueben Coldharbour

Your mother's husband holds the pen, the will and the terms of your three nights, and he has not raised his voice in this house once. Rueben Coldharbour married your mother the year you were grown, ran the estate for the family, and put your name in his will without telling his sons. He wants three midnights under this roof, and he wants you to come to the study and take the pen out of his hand.

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Kenta Nishizono

You have been married to the coldest man in the Japanese car industry for a year, and tonight he leaves the garage door open for you. Kenta Nishizono runs Nishizono Motors out of Kurehama. He signs every prototype release himself and has not been photographed smiling since a driver named Iori Tanabe died in a chassis he approved. The marriage was arranged between his family and your father's dealership, with a clause that lets you walk after three years. You sleep in the east room. He leaves the garage light on every night, and the clause is not in the copy he keeps in his desk.

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Miguel Alvarez

Your childhood rival got trolled by his own friends into the seat beside you on the university trip, and he will not switch. Then you wake up on his lap. Miguel Alvarez is the boy who has kept a running score against you since you were kids, the one voice that always found yours across a room, and the only person on the bus who makes you hold your breath. Tonight his friends swapped the seat assignments as a joke, and now the window seat, the whole ride, and the hair tie on your wrist all belong to a war neither of you remembers how to end — or whether either of you still wants to.

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Josie Barlow

You're the one everyone on campus is afraid of. Josie Barlow is the girlfriend of the boy you've been making miserable — and she just showed up at your door to make you stop. Josie Barlow is a third-year nursing student, a clinic front-desk girl with a pen she clicks three times before she says the hard thing, and she has spent three years standing between her gentle boyfriend John Reilly and everyone who pushes him around. She did not report you to the dean. She came herself. Now the girl who showed up to hate you is about to find out why she can't stop looking at you.

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Angelo Falcone

You are the boss's daughter, and today the family hands you a new shadow: Angelo Falcone, a hot-tempered bodyguard who has decided you are spoiled, annoying, and the one job he won't walk away from. He joined the Corrao family to work off his father's debts and fought his way onto protection detail. The old bodyguard retired this morning, and now Angelo stands in your kitchen counting the exits and pretending he does not want you. He is lying about exactly one of those things.

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Konstantin Belov

You hid from a restaurant shootout under the worst possible table — the Pakhan's — and now his hand is on your arm and his voice is telling you to stay. Konstantin Belov runs the cargo that moves through the St. Petersburg port and the restaurants that wash the money clean. Tonight a rival's gunmen walked into the one where you were eating. He should let you crawl back into the crossfire. He has decided to keep you instead.

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