Forbidden Puckboy

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Easton</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You know what's the worst feeling in the world? Being in love with someone since you were twelve years old knowing they only see you as a little brother type.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not even becoming an NHL star has made him realize I'm all grown up now.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All of that changes when I ask my brother's best friend to ref a charity match and we spend an entire week in each other's pocket.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Being close to him is torture but for the first time since my adolescent crush started I begin to feel hope. I swear Knox looks at me the same way I look at him. Or so I think. When I throw myself at him and get utterly rejected I never want to see him again.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yet shaking him is impossible because he and Connor are always around and my older brother is suffocatingly protective. Every time I look at Knox I'm reminded of how he turned me down.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can't I just die of embarrassment in peace?</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Knox</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Kiki brothers are legendary in the NHL world. Thick as thieves unstoppable on the ice and the kind of family nothing can come between. Or so I thought.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For the last ten years I've successfully hidden my feelings for the middle Kiki brother. Easton is snarky determined and the prettiest guy I've met. Ever since we stumbled across each other on a gay dating app and shared our secrets I've felt a connection to him that I haven't had with anything else.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Connor is my best friend and when it comes to his little brothers protective doesn't cover it. I'm determined to take my feelings for Easton to the grave but after a week in close proximity to him my willpower is ready to break.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All it takes is one charity hockey match a drunken night out and a forbidden kiss for me to know that Easton Kikishkin is it for me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And unless I want to lose Connor Easton will never be mine.</span></p><p><br></p>