On his way to realizing his Olympic dream, Tom Alan Baranowski finds himself in the midst of a dilemma. His traditional Japanese coach is insisting upon an arranged marriage between his biological daughter Erika and adopted son Tom Alan, who are partners on the ice. Tom Alan loves Erika, and his coach literally saved his life, rescuing him from an abusive home. How can he say no?<br><br>Somewhat resigned to his “not so bad” fate, everything changes when Tom Alan meets British ice dancer Milo Fisher. The spark between them is almost hot enough to melt the ice beneath their blades, and the two fall into an affair.<br><br>What about Erika? What about loyalty? What about gold? For Tom Alan, the impossible throw quadruple jump is suddenly the least difficult thing in his life.

Quadruple Flip

“It’s something. It’s just odd, is all. Is something. Says something. Right in the stands for Ben Thornton because he had a hard-on for screwing the guy over, what it would do for him. Or else he had a hard-on for screwing Ben. That’s what it was, I tell you. Watches me on the telly. Says something.”


“Maybe he didn’t think I’d want him there. Didn’t know I ached for him to be there. He couldn’t, though, could he? I was a bastard boy in my teens, Tom Alan. Can you imagine such a thing? A real bugger, I was. Bloody awful with my mouth. I don’t want him to die.”


For the next few minutes, Tom Alan just listened as Milo cried thirty-six-hundred miles away.


“Maybe Sochi,” Milo finally croaked out.


“I’ll tell him I forgive him before he goes into surgery, and he’ll tell me he’s coming to Sochi, and we’ll be father and son again. Maybe.”


Chapter 37