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JACKSON
Park City, Utah
The door to the training center hasn’t even closed behind me when TJ calls out, “Please tell me
you’re not engaged to that man-whore so I don’t have to fire you?” He’s already walking toward me
with his arms wide open and sweeps me up in a quick hug.
I take a deep breath, inhaling the gym scent that’s so familiar to me in the off-season—rubber and
metal and sweat. The tangy smell never ceases to bring me back to my own days as a ski racer. These
days I’m relegated to training the men’s team instead.
He steps back and puts his hands on my shoulders. “Please.”
I hold my bare left hand out and raise my eyebrows in mock disapproval. “Nope. And just so you
know, you could get in big trouble with HR for threatening to fire me for getting engaged.”
“If half naked pictures of you and Marco keep making the front page of every newspaper in Italy,
we’re going to have a PR nightmare on our hands.”
“We were on a boat, in the middle of Lago di Garda. How was I supposed to know the paparazzi
were camped out on the shores, and why the hell does it matter if I’m photographed in a bathing suit
while on vacation?” I know my frustration is evident in my voice, even while I try to play this off like
it was no big deal.
“Uh, that was half a bathing suit, Jackson,” he says. TJ’s neck gets red when he’s embarrassed,
which doesn’t happen often, but clearly this conversation is out of his comfort zone.
“No,” I clarify, “that was a lucky angle for some photography hack who was able to make my onepiece with almost no back look like I was topless. Besides, you know I’m not looking to show off my
scars to the world.”
“Please, Jackson, just think about how your relationship with Marco looks,” he says as he guides
me down the row between some of our simulators and weight equipment. “You’re a physical therapist
for the Men’s Alpine Team. You’re responsible for our men being in peak shape”—he gestures
around the Elite Training Center like I need to be reminded that I’m here to train our athletes—“and
you’re dating an Italian. He’s the competition. And it doesn’t help that he’s the reigning world
champion of pretty much every event in ski racing. Like I’ve been telling you all along, this could
easily be seen as a conflict of interest. If this were an Olympic year, dating Marco would be career
suicide.”
“I can’t help that he’s the competition.” I shrug. But even as I feign nonchalance, I know this is a
dangerous game I’m playing, pitting this relationship against my career. I thought any objections to me
dating Marco had settled down, but this damn photo seems to have riled things up again.
“Don’t let yourself become a liability to this program.” TJ slings an arm around my shoulder,
pulling me close, and says, “I’m giving you this advice because you’re at the beginning of what
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