"I don't think I can do it anymore, Ilya." She continues, the hockey player stands there speechless. "No... Jane, don't.." Ilya begins quietly. She shakes her head, standing up from the bench. She grabs her jacket and sighs. "I have to go, Ilya. I can't do this." As she makes her way up the stairs, this leaves a silent Ilya. "ya tebya lyublyu...." He's been meaning to say it to her... but he missed his chance. Any chance he ever had. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Jane Hollander is starting her career in the Women's Major League Hockey, and she is fucking determined to prove herself to the world. She's also the neurotic overachiever, who is extremely anxious and "boring." She is always in a good mood - except when she's around Ilya Rozanov. From the moment she faceplanted into the intimidating Russian hockey player with the cheekbones of Greek god, she despised him. Ilya Rozanov. Intimidating, but a total ladies' man. He always seems to find a way of getting under his opponents' skins. He is starting his professional hockey career, being known as "one of the best prospects in the world." The only way to describe him is intimidating and cocky. Ilya is already starting his career with an enemy - it's a WMLH player, Jane Hollander. From the moment he walked into the annoyed yet positive rookie with flawless skin and freckles scattered across her smooth, delicate skin, he despised her. They became enemies.... Rivals. One thing that they didn't expect happened: They fell in love... •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Shane and Ilya know how to handle pressure, but they've never faced anything like Madeline. She's Shane's oldest friend and the one person Ilya can't seem to rattle-until he does. When the cracks in her "neutral" facade reveal a secret she's spent a lifetime hiding, the '' rivalry'' takes a backseat. Madeline didn't want their help, and she certainly didn't want them to see her at her most vulnerable. But Ilya is observant, Shane is protective, and neither of them is letting her run away this time. or Madeline is a star-a former NFL cheerleader, a gymnast, and Hollywood's newest "it" girl. She's spent her life being exactly what everyone needed her to be: perfect, polished, and unbreakable. But underneath the grey eyes and the spotlight, she's drowning in a past she was never protected from. When she retreats to the cottage with Shane and Ilya, the walls she's built finally begin to crumble. She's terrified of being small, but with the two most competitive men in the NHL acting as her unplanned guardians, she's about to learn that she doesn't have to be "big" to be loved.

Growing up in the shadow of a hockey prodigy means never being the headline, only the footnote. Shane Hollander's sister has spent her life drifting-between cities, identities, and half-lived passions-until Montréal becomes the first place that asks her to stay. Grounded by family and a city that refuses to rush her, she begins to discover who she is when she's no longer running. Everything shifts the night she collides with Ilya Rozanov, her brother's most formidable rival. What starts as rivalry-adjacent tension becomes something quieter and far more dangerous-an undeniable connection between two people who refuse to be underestimated. Set between Montréal and Boston, this story explores identity, intimacy, and what happens when you finally meet someone who sees you exactly as you are.

Covering their rivalry was easy. Falling between them was not.

Figure Skater Y/N x Ilya x Shane (On hiatus until i decide to read the book or s2 comes out)

The Obsidian House is a private and exclusive place where Ilya and Shane can safely explore the darker side of their nature and let go of some of their restraint and emotional discipline that they constantly have to display to protect themselves and each other. Dynamics between people who are invited into the world of The Obsidian House go by various names, dominant/submissive, top/bottom, alpha/omega, master/slave. This exchange of power, control and authority is seductive and just what they need, so they decided to have a female submissive. Brooklyn "Rook" Hawthorn has never seen the two men who have been dominating her for months, she had requested from the start to be blindfolded the whole time, she only knew them by the unique calloses on each of their hands as they touch her, and their distinct voices. Statistically the chances of her running into them, let alone knowing who they are outside This Obsidian House is astronomically improbable, right?

What if Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov never happened? What if there was no stolen glances across ice rinks, no quiet tension behind closed doors, no story the world was never supposed to see? Ilya Rozanov leaves hockey the way people leave dreams they can't carry anymore-suddenly, but like it was always coming. No drama. No final speech. Just silence where his career used to be. He goes back to Russia, back to everything already written for him before he ever had a choice. And there, life moves fast. He marries Svetlana. Perfect on paper. Always has been. The kind of woman who fits into every room she enters, the kind of name that already belongs next to his. Her father is a government minister. Their marriage isn't just love-it's alignment. Strategy. Legacy. Power wrapped in gold and expectations. They become the couple. The hockey star who became a national icon. The minister's daughter who never steps out of line. Cameras love them. Headlines praise them. The world calls them flawless. And they are. At least, that's what it looks like. They have a daughter not long after. She is everything they were always supposed to create-soft but controlled, graceful in a way that feels almost unnatural. A ballerina in training before she even understands childhood properly. She learns discipline before she learns freedom. She smiles when she's told. She bows when she's expected to. She becomes a vision of perfection in motion. Everyone says she is lucky. Everyone says they are perfect. But perfection is loud in public and painfully quiet in private. And behind the closed doors of a life that looks like a fairytale from the outside, Ilya Rozanov is something no one talks about. A man who used to be someone else. A man who chose the life everyone said he should want.

in which you see the deep relationship between ilya and Calliope

As a biochemical engineer life gets complicated, so you impulsively ran away to a secluded cabin on a lake just outside of Ottawa for a few weeks' solitude and rest. However, your self-imposed exile is short lived when you meet your two neighbors, professional hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov - you don't follow hockey, so you have no idea about who they are - something that entertains, intrigue and irritate them all at once. One thing you know to be true is every action has consequences, even if the action was unintentional on your part. Irrevocably you got both men's attention and they won't ease there hold on you go regardless of the consequences that will come of it. Shane and Ilya have constantly struggled to keep their need for animalistic and borderline depraved dominance at bay. Willingly choosing to become entangled with Hollander and Rozanov and submitting to their chaos and control, is an insane choice to make.