THEY RAN THE PROGRAM once in rehearsal to prove to everyone that her knee could take it. It could, and they had skated clean. Now they just had to do it again.
“I can’t believe we’re doing this,” Katie said hours later as they waited in the darkened tunnel for their names to be announced. She couldn’t believe Brendan had talked Leo into letting them do this. Hell, she couldn’t believe Brendan had talked himself into it.
One more one-more-time. She’d never felt this excited about a non-competitive skate before. If touring could always be like this, she was all in with this being the future of her and Brendan’s careers.
Beside her, Brendan found her hand and squeezed it.
“I’m fine,” she said.
“I know. I just wanted to be nice or something.”
“You’re always nice. Except when you’re awful
