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.

Transitions

“Maybe not just thoughts,” Tom Alan said. “Maybe…”


“It feels all kinds of wanting and all kinds of…wrong. I figured if I stayed away from her…maybe even stopped skating, it would all go away, but I don’t want to do that. I don’t. God, Milo! I never thought I was bisexual, not even bi-curious,”Tom Alan said.


“Maybe. Though I guess bisexual is bisexual, whether I’m attracted to one woman or more than one. I realize now why my reaction to Bill coming out as bi was so cruddy. I had my own issues going on. Everything I said to him, I’ve been saying to myself. Way worse than questioning my sexuality, even though I did think that was written in stone a long time ago, was this nagging feeling I have that I’m being unfaithful to you, or that I very easily could be if the opportunity presents itself.”


Chapter 62