**SEQUEL TO BREAKING THE ICE**
Liam Astor is home. Home where his family is. Home where is skating partner stayed. Home where he trains every day to make his Olympic dreams come true. Home, where he had to throw himself into his career, so he doesn'...
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The time says the text came through at four-thirty-four in the morning. I expect Liam to be asleep now, so his reply to my text back is a surprise.
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I smile at my phone before setting it down. I get up from my bed and go knock on Dean's door. When the door opens, I have my second surprise of the morning.
"You're up early," I tell the fully awake Dean holding his bedroom door open in front of me. Usually it takes a couple of knocks before he rolls out of bed.
Dean chews on his bottom lip through a nod. "Didn't sleep very well."
