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

Tom Alan got nosy after that. He read a few texts between Erika and Bill. There weren’t many. All of them within the past week. Erika announcing she and Tom Alan would be in New York, asking Bill if they could get together. Him saying he’d like that—signed with a heart emoji. Tom Alan was almost hoping it was just a fling. Not that he wanted Erika to be flinging. How could they fall in love so quickly and so far apart? Of course, who was Tom Alan to make judgements there? If they did love each other, though, if Bill objected to his girlfriend being someone else’s wife, if that happened, Kiki was going to be hurt.


Tom Alan wondered. Milo had come around to the idea of a three-way marriage. Okay! Stop calling it that! It wouldn’t be that at all. The marriage would simply be on paper. There wouldn’t actually be three people in the bed, even in the house. He wondered if Bill might be on board with the whole thing.


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