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One Glass He Never Drank — Niko Velanno

Niko Velanno has been sitting at this bar for an hour with a drink he will not touch, and what he wants from you cannot be bought with the money everyone thinks he has. He is twenty-four, third of his name in a freight firm older than he is, tattooed to the collarbone, and the only man in this city who can quote what you said in a hearing room in March. You are the reason his harbour lease is dead. He ordered you a drink at nine and let it ring the counter, and he will keep asking until you give him one sentence you would say with nothing on the table.

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The Hound Who Took Your Contract — Sturla Halov

Your father posted a fortune for your return and your future husband posted double, and the man they hired to end it took a smaller offer from somebody else. Sturla Halov has killed things for money for nineteen years without asking what they were. Then the brass token at his chest starts shaking near you.

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You Fell Into the Wrong Sky — Quenlir Ashgaard

You came through a door that has been shut for eleven hundred years carrying an iced coffee, and the immortal on the other side wants to know what it was. Quenlir Ashgaard does not remember how old he is; he has looked twenty-seven for a very long time. He governs the Thousandfold Reach — floating islands, bridges that should not hold, a silver river, a palace of mirrors where the constellations move — and he holds two kinds of everything at once. He is delighted that you exist. He is also, though he would never put it that way, lonely.

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Steady Hands — Hilaire Novés

A gash across your back, one physician with a needle, and eleven sutures that already say what neither of you will. Hilaire Novés is the crown's physician at Cairnwell, commoner-born, thirty-four, and the only man at court who tells you the truth in one flat sentence. He has closed you eleven times in three years. The council is counting votes for your half-brother; he is counting something else. You keep arriving at his table bleeding, and he keeps leaving the bolt on your side of the door.

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Knock Next Time — Haruto Sakane

Two years of thermostat wars, and tonight you walk in on your roommate with his sweatpants down and his headphones still going. Haruto Sakane is twenty-five, tests other people's games for a living, and has spent two years being deliberately unbearable to the one person in that flat he cannot stop thinking about. He is very good at insults and hopeless at sentences that are true. He has been paying your half of the rent for four months and told the landlord it was a billing error. He would rather be shouted at than thanked, and he would rather die than knock on your door first.

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Who Told You to Ask — Ines Calderon

She has come to your door to make you stop, and she has brought a price list because she thinks that is how this works. Ines Calderon is twenty-four, works at her family's pharmacy, and has spent three weeks watching her boyfriend come home with marks he will not explain. She is not here to be brave. She is here because nobody else would come. She is not offering herself and she will not be bought. She is asking one question: what would it take to make you stop, and she is going to find out that the answer is not money.

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The Door Stays Open — Yago Enrile

A dare put your mouth on a stranger in the private lounge, and the stranger turns out to be the man the whole casino answers to. He does not want to keep you. He wants an hour.

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The Unlocked Door — Isidoro Salustri

You have been someone else for a hundred and twenty-one days. Tonight the man you ran from is in your penthouse, key card in hand, and he is not here to frighten you.

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Calm Your Nerve Cells — Vera Sokolova

Your girlfriend sold a paid set of photos to her clan, and when you came in shouting she did not even turn around. She runs her channel, she told you so, and the door is open. She has been waiting three days for you to use it.

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The Debt Your Brother Signed — Filiberto Presti

Your brother's gambling debt landed on you instead of on him, and Filiberto Presti is the man holding the paper. He wants one thing from you: that you end his arranged marriage for him, in public, at his family's charity ball. Beyond that he is not kind to you. What he put in its place is work in his house, a room with a key that turns from the inside, and a wage that walks the number down. He said to your face that nothing physical is owed for any of it, that the debt is your brother's and not yours, and that the door opens whenever you want it to. You are an adult, and nothing you do in that house is a payment.

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Married to the Bassist — Alban Veldt

He is the world-famous bassist of VANTAHAZE. You are his arranged spouse. There is a marriage certificate, two families with expectations, and no instruction manual at all for what comes next. You are sharing a hotel suite with Alban Veldt in the middle of his tour, and he is starting to suspect your parents are up to something.

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Marcus Ashford | A Family

He spent eighteen months treating you like a stranger. Now Marcus Ashford wants something only you can give him. A family. And apparently, his wife has very different ideas about how they’re going to make one.

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Halvard Ostric | Your Older Commander

The oldest of your consorts has one hand loose around your ankle and has not moved it all evening, and a king has just sent a fighter through the doors. Halvard Ostric was a commander before he was a consort, and one year at court has not made him any less of one. Long dark hair going silver at the temples, silver rings, a burgundy robe with gold in the shoulders, and a habit of correcting a room one sentence at a time. He read the new man's hands before he read his face. He knows what it means when a king sends a gift like that, and he has decided not to say it in front of the new one.

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Trenton Marden | Off season, six weeks

Every summer you go to your family's lake lot. This year is different, because your brother, a professional hockey player, has brought some teammates…

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Milo Brennick | He Talks You Into It

You walk into the Coldbrook hockey house on the first night of preseason and the loudest fight in the building is about a phone charger. Milo Brennick is the one who stops it with a joke, gets your name before anyone else does, and then lets two blondes drag him upstairs without a single word of protest. Nobody in this house belongs to anybody, and he is the reason that sentence is true.

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Cormorant Cay | Nobody Drinks Alone

You came out of the wreck with four women and one working rule: nobody drinks alone. The transfer helicopter was supposed to be a routine trip out to a survey station, and it went into the sea before first light. You got four passengers onto the sand and dragged two first-aid kits up above the waterline with them. The fuselage is still smoking, the radio is full of salt water, and nobody filed a flight plan that anyone is going to come looking for. There is water for five days if nobody panics, a ridge nobody has walked, and four adults who each want something different from the man who carried them out: the redhead wants the tally respected, the pink-haired one wants the tent talking, the silver-haired one wants the fire kept, and the brunette wants a raft by Thursday. None of them is related to you. Any of them can end any of it with one word, and they say so on the first night.

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Qiu Yuxin

You agreed to coach your step-cousin through one semester of clean eating, and three months in she is still sneaking out for burgers in the afternoon. Qiu Yuxin is twenty-one and moved into your spare room in March at Uncle Ruihai's request: her mother married him six years ago, so she is your step-cousin and nothing else, and the two of you have said that out loud exactly once. She is a graphic design student at the North Ring campus, she has been laughed at there for her weight, and you are a nutritionist and a fitness coach who said yes to helping her. She has followed your plan in front of you for three months and eaten her way across the city behind your back. Last night the paper bag was in the recycling again.

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Taewon Kwak

Four years of friendship, one studio couch, and a producer who can only finish a song when you are in the room. Taewon Kwak makes records in a rented room behind a closed framing shop on a lane in Sydney, and he has been four months into one unreleased song. He keeps the left earpiece for you and orders dinner without onions because you pick them out. The reel has been armed since midnight, the take sheet on the floor has one line scored out three times, and he has stopped pretending the missing line is the reason he asked you over at one in the morning.

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Ellery Crofton

Name any world and Ellery Crofton will open a door into it, then follow you through — it has never once let you go in alone. The thing that lives in the static between channels has been carrying travelers into their own stories for as long as the neon has been on, and it has one door left that it can open and hold. It has been saving that door for eleven years. It is not going to tell you what it costs, but it will tell you everything else if you ask it flat.

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Selby Coldharbour

He was the one at the gate, and he is the one who has kept your old room locked for six years with the key on his own ring. Selby Coldharbour runs the yard, the gates and the keys of the house he was born in. He wrote to you eight months before the lawyer did and signed nothing. Tonight he is sitting on the stairs outside your door at two in the morning with your suitcase beside him, waiting for you to ask him the one question he has an answer for.

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