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

“Dante—” Ryan warns as they stagger back against the other bed. Dante sits down in the open suitcase that he stillhasn’t put away and Ryan leans above him, speaking between kisses. “Baby, this isn’t…” Then, “Okay, you know what? We shouldn’t really—” And finally, “Jesus, Dante,” this last punctuated with strong hands lying him back, eager lips on his throat and chin, his name dissolved in a breathless gasp. Nimble fingers slip into his sweats, glide over the Lycra skin of his suit, fist around the bulge of his dick. Ryan laughs as he pulls away. “How am I supposed to get into that?” he wants to know, picking at the skinsuit.


“It has a zipper,” Dante tells him, sitting up to pull at the front of his suit. For a scary moment he can’t find the zipper…until he realizes he’s still wearing a T-shirt, and he almost knocks Ryan over in his haste to get it over his head. “Take it off,” he whines.


Chapter 156