Summary:

There was a burst of static, a gusty sigh. "Shanushka, you have the biggest 'bottom eyes' I have ever seen."

"That's not a thing."

"It is absolutely a thing, and that thing is you," she cackled, and he hung up the phone, ears so hot they should have been smoking.

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Or, Shane meets Svetlana first, and it changes everything and nothing.