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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Between Book 2: Heated Rivalry and Book 6: The Long Game (Game Changers), Porn with Feelings, it's mostly feelings, Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander, Kink Negotiation, Some Bad BDSM Etiquette, Safeword Use, it's sweet and everyone's okay I promise, Consent King Ilya Rozanov, Soft Dom Ilya Rozanov, Body Worship, Praise Kink, Shane Hollander Has a Praise Kink, Shane Hollander's Freckles, extensive use of space metaphors Summary:
Ilya asks himself how he learned to look at the stars. Someone has been there to turn them into something he can hold: Alexei when they were children, hands flying around and talking loudly enough to earn a deadly glare from the librarian as he flipped the pages; and now Shane, voice barely above a whisper, sitting with Ilya's back pressed against his chest, taking Ilya's hand in his to point up at the constellations. Ilya learned how to hold the stars. He can do it again. He knows, rationally, that Shane is finite, and he plans to prove it to himself.
Ilya is completely overwhelmed by Shane's freckles. He decides the best solution to this is to carefully count each individual one.
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