Betrayed on Ice

Mark and Helen had just won the World Pairs Skating Championship, marking the close of the year’s biggest event.

From the stands, the deafening chant of "Marry her!" grew.

Flushed, I, Liam Noth, stood ready to propose under the glare of countless cameras.

But Helen only smiled gently, removed the gold medal from my neck—the eighty-eighth time she’d done so—and placed it around our coach Adrian Vance's neck.

“Adrian has sacrificed so much for us,” she said with sweet authority. “Tonight’s spotlight should be his.”