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

He works his way up to Ryan’s knees, and then his thighs. He can feel tremors beneath his hands, muscles still trembling from earlier exertion, and he digs in deep here, working the knots out. Ryan spreads his legs a little, just enough for Dante to rub at his inner thighs, though from time to time his hand presses the pillowy softness at Ryan’s crotch. He likes the faint smile on his boyfriend’s lips—straddling his thighs, Dante leans down over him to kiss that pink mouth, sits up when Ryan tries to kiss him back. Now his hand is at Ryan’s groin, he rubs wide circles into him, feels a stiffening under his ministrations in response. “I thought you said you weren’t in the mood,” Dante purrs.


“You’re getting me in the mood,” Ryan tells him. He opens his eyes, dulled with lust, and arches into Dante’s hand. “Whatever else you’ve got in mind,” he sighs, “please don’t stop doing that.”


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