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

“Don’t touch a thing.” Billy crawled out from under the covers, making his way to the bottom of the bed. He was still naked—and apparently no longer shy about it. “Come here.” He yanked opposite sides of the sheet and brought her to the bed, where he pulled her down beside Tom Alan.


“I should go back to my own room,” he said.


“How’d you all end up in one room without me? Now I am jealous,” Milo said.


“It was just me and Billy. We had a good long talk. My endless blathering kept putting him to sleep, though.”


“I wasn’t sleeping. And I give as good as I get.”


“He kept waking up saying ‘Don’t go…I’m listening.’ I guess at some point I fell asleep, too.”


“We’ve covered all the letters now, Fisher. Rika’s mom is the L;you and Kensuke, you’re the G;I have the Bgoing on; Jesse’s doing the T;and now Tom Alan is at Q—for questioning. That letter can go two ways. So will he, most likely.” Billy thought he was clever. “Cool, huh?”


Chapter 67