Summary:

“Shane?” Hayden’s voice filtered through the door. “You alive in there?”

Shane grabbed Ilya by the wrist. “We have to hide you.”

Ilya laughed. “Hide me? Where?”

Shane’s eyes darted around his apartment. That left… the closet.

“No,” Ilya said, reading Shane’s desperate gaze. “I am athlete. Have standards.”

Ilya’s protest was cut off as he stumbled backward into a dark jungle of coats and boots. Shane shut the door.

In which Hayden shows up early to talk game strategy, Shane lies about owning a cat, and Ilya refuses to commit to the bit.

Things only go downhill from there.