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

Their erections flare to life with the press of bodies, the rub of flesh, and Dante trails a hand down between them, grasps Ryan in his hand, squeezes and kneads until his boyfriend arches against him. “You have any lotion?” Dante whispers, sitting up. Numbly Ryan nods, fumbles for the table beside his bed, somehow gets the top drawer open and extracts a small tube of hand cream. When he hands it to Dante, his boyfriend pops it open and giggles. “Jerk-off Jergins,” he says, grinning as he squirts a small dollop into the palm of his hand. “Gotta love this stuff.”


“It’s unscented,” Ryan points out. He puts the tube away again and tries to push the drawer closed, but it gets off-track and sticks and he’s not about to fuck with it now. “I don’t like that flowery shit when I’m getting off, you know?”


Chapter 60