Summary:

“Wait, shit, is it really dirty?”

He glances over to Ilya, who is now dutifully collecting cones. “It’s not dirty,” Shane laughs.

“So what’s the hangup, then?”

“It’s… kinda hard to translate.” He continues before Bood can call him on that, “it sounds more old-fashioned in English. Or, it’s fine in Russian, more like. It means my beloved. Or darling, kind of. Russian’s hard to translate directly sometimes.”

“Man. That’s some Bridgerton shit.”

5 times the Centaurs hear Ilya call Shane a petname, and one time they hear Shane call Ilya one.