Ryan Talonovich is the star of his college hockey team, until an accident during practice leaves him confined to a wheelchair. The doctors say he'll walk again but a new season is already underway and he's been replaced on the team, which leaves him feeling alone and betrayed. What's the use of fighting to get back on the ice now?<br><br>Then he meets Dante Espinosa, a short track skater on the city's speed skating club. Though he has to work overtime to afford his sport, Dante is hell on ice, and dreams of making the cut on the U.S. Olympic Speedskating Team.<br><br>Their love of the ice brings them together, but too many obstacles stand in their way: Ryan's struggle with therapy. The memory of Dante's first boyfriend. Lack of funding to the event, Dante's harassing boss, a skating friend in love with him, and Wil Dietrich, who will do anything to win.

Power Play

But it doesn’t feel like rushing to Ryan—it feels like holding back, trying to cool off the emotions that threaten to burn him up inside, and he doesn’t want that. He’s been waiting nineteen years for a boy like Dante to finally come along, he doesn’t want to take things slow. And true, he hasn’t had much experience with guys, but he sort of thought they were pretty much the same, all hands, horny and hard and just looking for someone to get with. He has someone, Dante. So what’s the problem again?


Chapter 46