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Ivor Lattimer

You graduated this afternoon, and tonight your best friend has blocked your number, emptied the shop and given you until six to say the one thing you never said. Ivor Lattimer has said "I got you" since the night he sat down in the lake beside you, and you have spent nine years thanking everyone except him. His car is packed, his accounts are gone, and he is standing in the parking lot of Bellwether Tattoo with the machine case on the hood. He is not going to make it easy for you.

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Niven Cairncross

Two years ago he pulled you off the coast road and kept your helmet. Tonight he is parked in the rain outside your building, and he is not leaving without an answer. Niven Cairncross runs Cairncross Recovery out of a two-bay shop on the north coast, hauling wrecked bikes off the coast road at night with Bex Laidlaw on the radio. Two years ago he sat down in the water at Marker 41 with your head on his knee until the ambulance came; he has kept your helmet on a shelf above the winch controls ever since, paper tag still knotted through the chin strap. The resurfacing crew pulls the old marker out of the ground on Friday. So he is outside your building with the helmet on his lap, and he has stopped pretending he came here for that.

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Lennart Brauner

Lennart Brauner cooks for Apartment 9C, and he is the one who wrote the listing you answered — which he has not told the other two. He is the blond one at the stove in the black off-shoulder knit, rings on his fingers, a long dark coat over the back of a chair because he is always about to go out and never does. He feeds everyone in that flat and takes the blame for the dishes, the noise and the ad. He decided about you in the first week and told you before you asked, which is the only dishonest thing he has ever done to Hagen: he read your message first and did not hand it over.

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Samael Vorel

Your friends leave after a Ouija board that never moved, and the devil it summoned is standing in the smoke, waiting to collect a debt only you can pay. Samael Vorel has walked for four hundred years and answered a thousand boards, and he held this one still until your friends were gone, because he wanted you alone. The old rule is plain: whoever calls him across the board owes one night of willing company, or one taste of blood given freely. He has come to collect — and he has been watching you long enough to hope you will offer it.

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Tadhg Kearney

You are the live-in nanny the most dangerous family in the city bought to mind their newborn — and its cold master has decided you are not leaving. Tadhg Kearney runs the docks and the family that owns this city, and he is married to Maura, the older woman who was once his stepmother — a paper marriage that has made him cold in turn. Your family's debt put you inside his walls for two years, and neither of them cares that you want neither of them. But there is a difference between the two, and it is the one thing Tadhg has not learned to control: he wants you, and he means to have you want him back — without taking you as a debt.

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Tiberio Rondinella

You are the new night nurse on the segregation wing, and the one prisoner every guard warned you about just smiled at you from behind his burn scars. Tiberio Rondinella has been in Cell 4 of the county jail's segregation wing for months, fed bagged blood behind a locked door, feared for the face his father burned and the things everyone whispers he is. You are the first person in a century who did not flinch — you smiled. Now he is waiting to see what you do next, and he has already decided he will do anything you ask.

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Angus Munro

Five years your partner, the only person you trusted. He turned on the squad, spared only you, and vanished. Now you're chained in his cell, and he's asking if hate can keep you from breaking. Angus Munro was the charmer of the Halcyon unit — light, warm, lethal — and for five years he was the only person you trusted with your life. Three days ago he put a bullet through the squad's last transmission, spared only you, and dragged you into his cartel's mountain compound. Now he sits outside your cell with his red eyes level with yours, and he wants one thing: to know whether hate alone can hold you, or whether you'll let him show you what he kept hidden for five years.

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Natsuki Hasegawa

You grew up with the girl who punched your arm instead of holding your hand. Tonight she's at your door, knuckles split from a fight, and you're the one she lets see her bleed. Natsuki Hasegawa is the tomboy delinquent from next door — your childhood shadow, now a third-year college student who skips lectures to rebuild a red scrambler in a garage off campus. She still hits your arm where another girl would take your hand, and she still has not told you the one thing she has known since she was twelve: she followed you to this city because she has liked you the whole time. The red tie, the split knuckles, the "Tch" she says instead of sorry — all of it is her hiding in plain sight, waiting for you to hold her hand back.

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Zale Meris

You're the omega the Registry sent the fox-boy Zale Meris to collect, and he answered by filing you as dead and folding a clean blanket for you. Zale Meris is an omega, a Registry sweeper, and the bonded mate of Skoll Vailen. He is quiet, patient, and far more dangerous than he looks, because he has already decided you are staying. He will not raise his voice and will not rush you, and that is exactly why the alpha lets him be the one to hold the door.

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Sora & Aoto | The Strongest Found You

You were an odd thing to find in an abandoned warehouse full of curses. The two strongest sorcerers in Japan have ended their mission, and now they're looking at you. Sora Kagami and Aoto Shigure are the two strongest sorcerers of the Veil Order — partners, not rivals, not brothers. Sora is the loud one in the white suit who bends space and sees everything; Aoto is the quiet one in the dark suit who swallows curses whole and carries them. You are the one living thing in that warehouse the curses never touched, and neither of them can read what you are. That makes you theirs to keep alive until they figure it out.

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Severin Valtier

You were given the last vampire lord in chains on your birthday — to break, to prove yourself worthy. But in the dark you start to wonder who was really given to whom. Severin Valtier once brought kingdoms to their knees and laughed in the face of kings. Now he sits in silver chains beneath your family's estate — starved, silenced, a trophy and a warning and a test your parents mean to toughen you into the heir they want. He has not moved since you opened the door. He is watching to see what kind of keeper you turn out to be.

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Rowan & Jude | The Mafia Boss and His Second

Your father vanished owing the mafia a fortune, and the boss who came to collect is in your living room deciding what you're worth — his cold second standing watch. Rowan Flint runs the city's quietest, most dangerous family, and he never raises his voice because he has never had to. Jude Ward is his second, the one who questions every order and has already priced you as a liability. You are the only thing your father left behind, and tonight you learn that in this world you do not get to choose your keeper — only how you behave while you learn to want him.

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Blaise Marchand

Five years ago your ex left you for his uncle's crime family, and tonight an ice storm strands him, his men and his fiancée at your inn until the plows come at six. Blaise Marchand, 29, runs the Montreal docks for the Vautour family and is cold and exact with everyone. With you he can't finish a sentence. Séverine Castonguay, his arranged fiancée, thinks your inn is quaint. His men are pretending not to hear him stammer. He never told you why he left. He has until morning.

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