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“Look at him, Samira,” Jack says. The words seem lodged in his throat. He's forcing them out. “Sweetheart fucking face. And they were gonna kill him.”
He kisses the dog on the top of its head. And Samira usually finds that sort of behavior foreign and disgusting, but she puddles just a little more when she sees Jack Abbot do it.
“So you took a chance on him?” she says.
“What can I say?” Jack lifts the tags on his dog’s collar with a crook of his finger. Samira watches as they slide, metal on metal, identifying information, dents and dings—and she sees it, she aches as she sees it, that scrape of metal limbs and dog tags in gray matter memories. “I'm a sucker for lost fucking causes.”
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Jack rescues a tripod dog with a history of violence. Samira learns what they each have in common.
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It doesn't take long for Jack to realize something is off between Samira and Robby.
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19 Aug 2026
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On the day of their wedding, Samira Mohan walks toward Jack Abbot carrying more than a bouquet: her father’s memory, Jack’s quiet promise, and every part of herself she once thought was too much to be loved. Surrounded by the family they found in the most unlikely place, Samira and Jack choose each other not as an escape from fear or loss, but as a place to stay.
A wedding in the woods. A promise to go as far as Jupiter.
And, finally, a life that feels good enough to come home to.Series
- Part 1 of Between shifts
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17 Aug 2026
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Jack is the best boyfriend in the world. Samira is the worst girlfriend in the world.
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14 Aug 2026
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When he boards the elevator he’s upset. By the time he leaves the elevator he’s angry, each reverberation of his feet hitting asphalt felt in the remaining bones and surgical grade titanium in his right leg, all the way up to his hip. It takes him less than sixty seconds to walk from the parking deck to the ambulance bay. Ten feet from the entrance, he sees Robby walk through the first set of doors, past Ahmad, and then through the second set of doors. His pulse roars in his ears, his heart pounding in his chest. For the first time in years, Jack Abbot feels something approximating rage, an emotion he has long assumed to be medicated out of him.
His hands furl into fists.
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Robby commits the critical error of making Samira cry. Jack reacts.