Skating for her ghost

My uncle once told me that dreams don't pay rent.

Maybe that's why he sold mine so easily.

Now I wear a ring that doesn't belong on my hand and train under a woman who barely speaks to me unless it's about skating. The cameras call us a miracle. The federation calls us a perfect arrangement.

I call her my coach. Unfortunately, she's also my wife.
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She spent her whole life chasing Olympic gold because her parents believed she could become something greater than poverty, grief, and the tiny apartment they called home.

But dreams are expensive.

And Viktoria Zolotova is running out of people willing to pay for hers.

After years of being overshadowed, forgotten by her academy, and replaced by skaters everyone likes more, Viktoria is suddenly forced into an arrangement she never asked for-one that ties her future to the most feared coach in figure skating.

Maybe this is a sport where one mistake can destroy everything.
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