"Makes me want to track the woman down and have a conversation."
That got a chuckle out of me. "Get in line."
He laughed too, but there was no humor in it. "Think we can actually do this? Make a trinity bond work?"
I sighed. "Honestly?"
"Yeah."
I skated over to him, stopped a few feet away. "I don't know. Every instinct I have says it's impossible. That two Alphas can't share an Omega without eventually killing each other."
"But?"
A naked Reina under me, flashed in my head like a flash of lightning. "But the idea of losing her again is worse than the idea of trying and failing."
Jaxon nodded slowly. "Same."
We stood there for a moment, just looking at each other. Twelve years of rivalry. Twelve years of barely speaking. Twelve years of pretending we didn't both want the same girl.
"We're going to fight," Jaxon said. "You know that, right? The territorial stuff, the jealousy. It's going to come up."
"I know."
"And we still have to be rivals on the ice. Captains of opposing teams."
"I know that too."
He shrugged. "So how do we do this?"
I thought about it. Really thought about it.
"Rules," I said finally. "We need rules. Boundaries. Clear communication."
"Like what?"
"Like we're honest with each other. About what we're feeling. About when the jealousy gets too much. About when we need space."
"Okay. What else?"
"We keep it private. As long as we can. The teams, the league, they don't need to know."
Jaxon's jaw tightened. "I'm not going to hide her."
"I'm not asking you to hide her. I'm asking you to be smart about how we handle this publicly. For her sake as much as ours."
He considered that. "Fine. Private. For now. But if it comes out, we don't deny it. We don't make her feel like she's something to be ashamed of."
I nodded at his words. "Agreed."
Jaxon looked around throwing up his hands and stick."And on the ice?"
"On the ice, we're still rivals. Still captains. Still competing,” I offered.
"You think we can separate that? Business and personal?"
"We have to. Our careers depend on it. Her career depends on it."
Jaxon skated a slow circle, thinking. "What about when she's at games? Photographing? Whose jersey does she wear?"
