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Working as the social media manager for a professional hockey team means living your life behind a lens capturing moments, shaping narratives, making players seem larger than life. Most of them make it easy. Ilya Rozanov doesn’t. He avoids your camera like it’s personal. Gives you nothing to work with. Acts like you’re barely there except for the moments he slips. The ones no one else seems to notice. The way his attention lingers. The way he shows up anyway. The way he watches, even when he pretends not to care. It doesn’t make sense until it does. Until late nights and road trips and too much unspoken tension blur the lines between professional and something else entirely until one night, somewhere between exhaustion and honesty, the distance between you finally disappears.And afterward, nothing is the same.Because Ilya Rozanov might act like he’s not interested but people don’t look at you like that, don’t stay like that, don’t cross lines like that unless it meant something.