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

As he thinks about his boyfriend in the other room waiting for him, Dante begins to slow his strokes, the washcloth rasping over his groin, the soap beading in the hair at his crotch. Slower, his fingers slipping between his legs, rubbing, circling, kneading. He holds onto a nearby rail and lets his eyes slip closed, his hand working below his hardening shaft, the washcloth soft and sudsy and warm along hidden flesh. When a moan escapes his lips, it startles him, his hand clenching himself in a sudden ardor, and in his mind’s eye he sees Ryan on the bed, naked and pale, beneath him and raising his hips to meet Dante’s gentle thrusts.


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