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On Thin Ice With You Chapter 113 - Special Guest
Mia has been holding her composure together with both hands for the better part of two days, and it is her mother who finally cracks it.The heat moves up her face before she can stop it. "He's fine," she says, to no one in particular, in a voice that convinces no one.Ethan looks at his wife. "You looked him up?""Yesterday, while you were parking." Alice is entirely unruffled. "Mia said the name and I had a free hand and a working phone. You'll see for yourself tonight.""Fine," Ethan says.Mia beams at them, a flash of satisfaction in her eyes as she wiggles her eyebrows. "Then it's a deal! Consider tonight's entertainment officially locked in."Her home media room is a sanctuary of high-end tech that usually only sees her as its sole inhabitant. Despite the state-of-the-art soundproofing and a screen that practically rivals a boutique cinema, Ethan and Alice rarely venture inside.Tonight, however, the air in the room feels different—thick with a hidden, electric anticipation.On
On Thin Ice With You Chapter 112 - By His Face
Mia doesn't say a word. She takes her mother's arm and walks them both into the store.After making a full circuit of the shop, she confirms everything she had been hoping for. No player photos, no campaign imagery, just the logo emblem on a few pieces of merchandise.She steers them back out with a mild shrug. "Just the logo. Not even a promo video."Alice is undeterred."Your phone," she says. "You must have photos. A group photo, at least."Mia opens her mouth."Don't tell me you've spent all this time with someone and you don't have a single picture together."The photos exist. That is the problem. The photos exist in significant quantity and in a variety of formats that Mia would sooner dissolve into the floor than scroll past on her mother's behalf.Elias has an inexplicable fondness for using her phone to take pictures she then hides in a locked album. The thought of her mother's thumb moving cheerfully through that gallery is enough to close the conversation immediately."His
On Thin Ice With You Chapter 111 - Parenthood
Mia is already half-standing when her mother speaks."Since you're making friends over there—" Alice's voice is easy. "—you should invite them to Milan sometime. Show them around. We'd love to have people."Them. The word is doing a lot of work, and both of them know it.Mia keeps her face perfectly still. "Of course," she says, light and agreeable, and stands, and turns toward the stairs.She's on the last step when she hears her father's voice start up behind her—low, quiet, the register he uses when he thinks he's not being heard. She doesn't turn around. She doesn't go back down. She just presses her lips together and climbs the rest of the way to her room.Downstairs, Alice watches her husband."Do you think it'll last?" she asks, once Mia's footsteps have faded. "Whatever this is."Ethan is quiet for a moment. "She has nine months left on the exchange, maybe less if the project wraps early." He straightens, and reaches for Alice's hand. "A lot can change in nine months. For now,
On Thin Ice With You Chapter 110 - Known
Then Ethan speaks, and his voice is entirely even. "A professional athlete," he says. "His schedule must be irregular. Training every day, matches, travel—does he actually have time for you? For a real friendship, I mean. The way you have time for Ellie."It's not what she expected. He's cut straight to the most practical concern, bypassed the question of who, bypassed the question of what exactly the relationship is, and landed on: can this actually work?Alice follows his lead, her voice a shade gentler but no less direct. "And if a match takes him overseas for days at a time, what then? You can't exactly meet up for coffee when he's on another continent. Can he give that kind of time consistently?"Mia smooths her expression. "Their schedule isn't as relentless as you'd think. When they've had a good run of results, the time between commitments opens up. And seasons have peaks and off-periods—it's not a constant sprint."She keeps her voice light. "We manage the time fine.""That's
On Thin Ice With You Chapter 109 - Lifting the Veil
Elias's phone is almost dead by the time he boards.He plugs in at his seat, leans his head back, and lets the engine noise fill the space behind his eyes.He's been thinking about something, and the thinking has become specific enough now that it doesn't feel like idle consideration anymore.She slips into Italian sometimes—mid-sentence, when she's tired or surprised—and he catches the shape of it without the meaning. When she calls her mother back in Milan, the whole register of her voice changes in a way that's completely different from how she speaks to him.He wants to understand that. Not as a gesture. As something real.He's going to look into Italian lessons. He decides this at somewhere over the Urals and considers the matter settled.***In Milan, the apartment smells of the dinner they've just finished—her mother's cooking, something slow and warm that had been going since the afternoon.Mia is lying on the living room sofa. Her father is in the armchair with a book. Her mo
On Thin Ice With You Chapter 108 - A. Lange & Söhne
The cold outside Sheremetyevo's terminal is a relentless, negotiating force, but inside, the duty-free zone is a shimmering place of gold leaf and fluorescent lights.The Raiders drift apart gradually, pulled into the orbit of different luxury stalls like stray satellites while they wait for their flight back to Toronto.Elias moves through the crowd. He passes hand-carved nutcrackers, glass ornaments wrapped in intricate wire, and a stall selling honey-thick amber. They are pretty things, skillfully made, but none of them possess the gravity to stop him.Then, he reaches a porcelain boutique.It is illuminated with a soft, museum-like glow that makes its neighbors look garish. What catches his eye is a pair of cups—Meissen. He recognizes the crossed-swords mark on the base instantly. His mother has a penchant for the brand.There are two of them, identical in shape, both featuring a delicate gold rim and exquisite raised detailing. One has a deep blush ground, with cream and coral fl
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