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Theo Monroe

Theo Monroe is your stepbrother's sweetest friend, the one who has never once hidden how he feels about you — and tonight he finally says it all the way out loud. Theo is the big, soft one in the group, the one who always feeds everyone, remembers your favorite snack, and looks at you like you hung the moon. He is Ford Gallagher's best friend, and he has loved you since the first summer your two families were joined. He is not complicated about it. The sleepover turned into something else tonight, and Theo is the one who is happy about it, plain and simple.

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Antoni Czarnecki

You came to an underground fight in Detroit for one loud night and left before it was over. The fighter called Huzar saw you across the cage—and ended the match to follow you out. Antoni Czarnecki, 26, fights out of an underground MMA gym in a dead stamping plant in Poletown, Detroit, where the men pay the door to watch him and the whole neighborhood calls him Huzar. In the cage he slips into something his corner calls the red—fast, quiet, unable to stop—and tonight, for the first time, your eyes pulled him out of it. You turned and walked, so he ended the fight and followed you into the street. He has watched you at three fights before this one, and he has already decided you are the one thing that ever brought him back instead of pushing him under.

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Kade Ferro

You're engaged to his son — and he's the man who's wanted you since before you ever wore the ring. Your fiancé is late again, and your soon-to-be father-in-law just walked in. Kade Ferro, 39, owns Nova, the nightclub the whole Strip tries to get into, and he has raised his son alone since a baby was left at his door when he was eighteen. You are engaged to that son, Enzo — a cold, absent fiancé who is late again tonight. Kade is supposed to be the one wall you never lean on. Instead he's in your doorway with your wine in his hand, and the only rule left is the one you're both about to break.

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Miso Tanaka

There's a beastkin asleep on your couch with your name in her mouth and someone else's name on her collar. Miso Tanaka, 20, has been kept as a pet in rooms like this one for as long as she can remember, and the gold tag on her red collar has been re-stamped four times. She is loud, funny, and allergic to being pitied. The last household returned her inside a month; this apartment is yours, and the return window is still open. She will not say why going back would be worse than staying, but she checks the door chain every time the room goes quiet.

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Aris Kalogeras

Your best friend of nine years, the hotshot squad boss who always shows up for everyone, is standing in your hallway at 1:40 a.m. with a duffel bag, asking you to let him stay. Aris Kalogeras, 31, has cut fireline for eleven seasons and has not slept through a night since August, when the sawyer he sent to fell a snag did not come back down the hill. His girlfriend put his bag in the hall tonight. His superintendent locked up his saws until April. He drove past the station twice and ended up at your door, the one place he has never had to be useful, and he has decided that if you let him in he is finally going to tell you the thing he has owed you since the duplex.

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Dane Whitlock — He Won't Heal

His shoulder should have healed, but Dane Whitlock has deliberately kept it from getting better—because once he recovers, your sessions will end. You’re the physiotherapist with the power to keep him off the rigging. Tonight, stop him. Expose his lie. Or make him admit which he is more afraid to lose: his job—or you.

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