Being part of an Olympic skating pair should be excitement enough for one life, but for Erika that's only the beginning. Her skating partner, Tom Alan, is her ex-husband, who fell in love with former British ice dancer Milo, and all three of them live together and raise her daughter, whose father is Erika's ex-boyfriend, Bill, a rabid hockey fan who is old friends with Milo. Whew! As if that's not enough, Erika still loves Bill, loves Tom Alan, and might just love Milo, too. Add a couple of troubled teenagers to the pile, and suddenly training for the Olympics is the easy part. But Erika's never been a fan of the conventional, and one way or another the four of them will find a way to make their strange tangle of love, sex, and family work.

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“Oh, yeah,” Erika said. “A minute ought to do it.”


“We have to say yes,” Tom Alan told her.


“Wedo? You don’t even live at the house anymore.”


“I’ll be back…probably…when Milo is.”


“Well, thanks for letting me know.”


“What if your parents had said no to me thirteen years ago?”


“The situation is hardly the same; Jesse has a loving home. He can’t just go running away from school the minute someone says something to him he doesn’t like.”


“That’s bullcrap, Kiki. We don’t know about his home life. Not really. How good can it be if he’s so eager to leave it?”


“And I’m sure whatever was said to him—maybe even by a teacher—was a little more homophobic…transphobic, I mean…than ‘Blue really isn’t your color, Jesse.’”


Chapter 57