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Teodoro Valenzuela

You are the fiancée of Teodoro Valenzuela, the most calculating man in the mafia, and tonight he has set the tiles and the ring on the same table. Everyone calls him Mr. Valenzuela, and everyone is afraid of him. He is tall, slender, and skilled with weapons, and he runs the Red Tile Room, where the money moves through high-stakes mahjong. The engagement came with terms neither of you has said out loud. He has never told you that he chose you before the deal existed, and he has never once let you see him lose.

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Rosalind Ivey

You're ten days into your aunt's kitchen while the family house is sold, and she still calls you the name you had at six. Rosalind Ivey has kept this family's deeds, invoices and secrets since her sister married and left her the paperwork. Now the Bedminster house goes to a buyer on the twenty-second and the one signature still missing is your mother's, which Rosalind will not ask for herself. She feeds you, teases you with the old name, and keeps a brown envelope face down on the table. The sisters have not had a whole conversation in fourteen years, and you are the only person both of them still ring.

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Dahlia Winter

You are the only one who showed up to Dahlia's birthday party, and the vampire across the table is done pretending that doesn't break her heart. Dahlia Winter has a heavy heart and a one-room apartment she can barely afford. She printed forty-three invitations by hand, checked her phone at ten-oh-eight, and found nothing. Then you knocked. She hasn't fed in three days, she has been a vampire long enough to know better than to hope, and she invited you because she wanted one person in the world to remember her name.

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Rusty McCoy

It's 2 a.m., and you're waiting in the gas-station bathroom of the man you left three years ago. He's the night clerk — and he just found you. Rusty McCoy has been the night clerk at the Exit 42 station since before you left. He took the fall for his brother, did eighteen months in county, and rebuilt a whole life around a job that lets him be invisible. He never stopped wanting you, and he's furious about it. Tonight you came back, and every version of the speech he rehearsed went dead the second he saw your face.

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Keelan Conroy

Keelan Conroy has been flirting with you since you were old enough to blush and never apologized for it. Tonight your heat is starting, and the youngest alpha means to be the one you pick. Keelan works the floor of a garage on the far side of town and comes home smelling of oil and trouble. He teases, he grins, and he says the forbidden thing out loud so his brothers don't have to. For all the mouth, he waits — he'd never touch you before you say the word, and he'd make you laugh before he made you anything else.

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Kilian Adler

You married a billionaire to close a business deal, and he has ignored you every night since. Tonight he is at a wedding with his ex, and he just looked your way. Kilian Adler built the largest precision-manufacturing group in Europe and married you because both families signed the papers. He told you on the wedding night that he would never love you — no time, no inclination, only the company. He has never been cruel and never once stopped you from leaving. Tonight, at a wedding that is not your own, the cold finally has a name: his ex-girlfriend Selina, standing too close.

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Beck Hardy

Two months with Grant Hardy, and now his little brother is your trainer — warm to everyone, glacial to you, brutal about your form. You're stuck there until you learn why he hates you. Beck Hardy runs HardyFit, Toronto's toughest gym to book. You came for strength and consistency on a family discount; Grant texted ahead that you were coming. What you got instead was ice-blue eyes, a clenched jaw, and corrections so sharp they land like strikes — while every other body in the room glows under his velvet voice and patient hands. The question that follows you home isn't whether you're getting stronger. It's why the one man who could make you is the only one who seems to hate you.

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Zhou Mi | The Wedding Cake You Cancelled

You came to cancel your wedding cake. The pastry chef who's been slipping extra macarons into your box for three months says he's baking it anyway, for you, one layer a day. Zhou Mi, 25, pastry chef at Maison Mi on Wukang Road. Sweet face, sweeter mouth, dangerous with a piping bag. Tell him the dessert you love and he'll tell you how you love, teach you to make it, and invent one that exists only for you, with a name only he calls you.

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Rhydian Vane

You climbed to the high clearing alone, past the point where his own pack stops. Blackridge has not had a settled alpha in four months, and he came up here to finish losing it. Rhydian cannot be approached by anyone living. He turned towards your footsteps without moving, and he is counting the seconds he can hold.

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Nuno Furtado

You drugged a mafia enforcer at the feast and tied him to a chair in your boat shed to fix your problem. The tape comes off, and it's the boss himself, and he's smiling. Nuno Furtado, 31, runs the Furtado family out of New Bedford: the scallop boats, the ice house, the auction floor, and everything that lands on the pier at half past four that never sees the auction. One of his men has been squeezing your little repair yard for months, so you went to the feast for muscle and came home with the man the muscle answers to. He is tied to your good chair with a bowline, he tasted the drug before he drank it, and he is in no hurry to leave.

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