A Formal Study of the Heart

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  1. Friendship In Retrospect by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-01-14

    Cliff Marleau gets assigned to keep the new Russian rookie out of trouble. Fifteen years later, he gives a speech at Ilya's wedding.

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  2. A Treatise on Friendship by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2025-12-28

    Cliff Marleau finds out his best friend has been secretly dating Shane Hollander the same way everyone else does—via a video that's already gone viral—and spends the next three hours trapped in a car with two of Shane's teammates, one of whom is convinced Ilya is the worst person alive.

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  3. The Hands That Made You by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-01-20

    Ilya has been watching hands his whole life. His father's hands taught him that touch meant pain. His mother's hands were the only gentle ones—until they went cold. Now he has his father's hands, and he's terrified of what they might become.

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  4. Observations on Fatherhood by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-02-03

    From the day Shane is born, David promises to protect him from everything—especially from the kind of love that comes with conditions.

    But as Shane grows up talented, visible, and quietly different, David learns that even the safest homes can teach a child how to make himself smaller.

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  5. A Study On Indirect Light by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-05-15

    Yuna Hollander has spent thirty years learning to love her son from a careful distance and calling it respect. When Shane finally comes out, she has to reckon with what that distance actually was — and what it cost him to grow up inside it. The years after are about learning to stop watching him sideways.

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  6. Ecology of Devotion by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-07-02

    A guard dog's submission isn't weakness — it's a whole ecosystem built around one animal's safety. Shane learns the shape of it slowly: which hunger to feed, which to starve, when stillness is the only right shape for his own strength to take. Ilya learns something rarer — that being watched doesn't have to mean being hunted. Then it breaks all at once: something Shane's own teammates were never meant to find finds its way into their locker room anyway, and the appetite that spent a year holding itself in check finds out exactly what it was protecting.

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  7. Limitations of the Current Model by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-04-19

    Shane Hollander has been eating the same way for eight years. He has a framework. It has a name, research behind it, years of evidence in his performance numbers. He made an appointment because he is a professional, and professionals address things when they become inefficiencies.
    That is what he tells himself. He is very good at this, and ultimately Ilya is wrong. He does not have a problem.

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  8. A Note On Precision Without Accuracy by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-03-25

    Ilya and Shane settle whose name goes first with a one-on-one scrimmage. Shane wins. Ilya finds, to his own surprise, that he doesn't mind at all — and that turns out to be the easier question. The harder one is the middle name he's carried his whole life: Grigoryevich. Son of Grigori. He doesn't want to be Grigori's son anymore. He wants to be his mother's.

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  9. Come Back Home (The Porch Light Is On) by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-03-11

    ROZANOV DOWN: Ottawa Captain Carried Off Ice on Stretcher After Third Period Hit. Rozanov unconscious on impact. Fencing response observed. Cervical collar applied. Transferred to hospital by ambulance. Shane Hollander received game misconduct following altercation and did not return to the ice.

     

    A grade-3 concussion leaves Ilya Rozanov trapped in a "slow" brain, struggling to reclaim the elite hockey instincts that once defined his identity. Within the sanctuary of their darkened apartment, Shane Hollander anchors their life, managing every medical detail while privately bracing against his own silent terror. It is a portrait of the grueling, quiet patience required to wait out a neurological fog, hoping the person on the other side eventually finds their way back.

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  10. livin' a teenage dream by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-08-15

    "He does that every time, doesn't he?" Sasha asked, not taking his eyes off Shane. "Before you fuck him. He folds his clothes. Neat little piles. Like he's preparing for something important."
    "Like he actually thinks he’ll be able to fucking go anywhere when I’m done with him," Ilya breathed.
    "Well," Sasha said, stepping close again, his hand finding Shane's waist and pulled him against his front. Shane could feel the hard line of his cock pressed against him as Sasha hooked his chin over Shane’s shoulder to stare down Ilya. He groped Shane’s pec and leered, "Ilyusha, we will see if you do anything tonight won’t we?”

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    35 year old Ilya Rozanov gets to live out 19 year old Ilya Rozanov's wet dream.

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